By Yusuf Olukokun
The present government, led by All Progressives Congress as the ruling party, has typically described Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, as a desperate politician who blinded himself against reality.
Following the recent statement issued by Atiku, stating his concerns about the policy drives and implementations by President Bola Tinubu’s administration, while also positing assertively that the policies are weak, and do not possess any future impact as promised during his inauguration as the President.
APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, has openly and verbally knocked the former Vice President in Abuja with a statement titled ‘Atiku is befogged with political envy’ saying Atiku decided to close his eyes against the achievements of Bola Tinubu within a year in office, because of his personal ambition and vendetta.
In the statement, he opined, “Atiku’s self-serving efforts to minimize the bold, genuine, and metamorphic policies and interventions of the present administration only smacks of primordial political envy and crass desperation for the power Nigerians have so wisely denied him. He lives in an alternate reality of prejudice and unpatriotic desire for Nigeria’s failure so he may scavenge his way to an even more elusive presidency.
“The President needs the support and encouragement of Nigerians, not the bile-filled pessimism of partisan Atikus. Atiku’s false alarm of an imminent food scarcity boldface ignores the widely acknowledged proactive measures already introduced by President Tinubu to guarantee food security in the country.
“The former Vice President’s swipe on the administration’s national security management again betrays his lack of touch with the reality of our current situation. Not only did the administration revamp and reconfigure the country’s security apparatus, but it also created a Special Security Fund to boost its superiority and operational effectiveness against merchants of crime and insecurity.
“Yet Atiku turns a blind eye to considerable improvement in our security, especially in the North East where Atiku hails from. The opposition’s efforts to burden the administration with ceaseless, contrived, unjustified, and diversionary reproval is grossly miscalculated and misleading.
“Tinubu remains unshakable in his commitment to building concrete blocks of progress and greatness for Nigeria. While Atiku and his band of mudslingers idle away, the President will continue, unstoppably, to deliver high-grade infrastructure not only in our nation’s capital, Abuja but all around the country.”