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Bobloco:
2027: I’ll challenge Tinubu daily for pushing Nigerians into poverty, hardship – Atiku



The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said President Bola Tinubu’s policies are pushing Nigerians into poverty and hardship.


Atiku, however, vowed to challenge those policies on a daily basis.

In a statement by his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president said Nigerians have been stripped of their purchasing power under Tinubu.


He said: “A President who can inflict this much pain on Nigerians should be able to survive hearing his own name.


“If Tinubu feels disrespected by being called his own name, he should imagine how Nigerians feel after being stripped of their purchasing power, crushed by inflation and instructed to endure hardship while those in power live extravagantly at public expense.


“Respect for the presidency cannot be demanded through intimidation. It must be earned through competent leadership, compassion and results.

“And he certainly does not have to wait for the campaign trail before demanding relief for millions of Nigerians whom Tinubu’s policies have pushed into poverty.

“Opposition is not seasonal. Accountability does not observe an electoral timetable.


“If Tinubu’s government can impose hardship every day, Atiku has the right to challenge it every day.

“Only people insulated from hardship by public funds could describe the daily misery of millions as “transient discomfort.”

“For the hungry child, this is not discomfort. For the bankrupt trader, this is not reform. For the unemployed graduate, this is not a foundation. It is failure.

“Tinubu removed the petrol subsidy without a coherent plan to protect Nigerians from the consequences.”


https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/20/2027-ill-challenge-tinubu-daily-for-pushing-nigerians-into-poverty-hardship-atiku/

Atiku has no shame.
He's one of the major reason the power sector is in a bad shape today

After losing in January, you will calm down

I support on Atiku on this. The suffer is much Abro........

Sai Baba Atiku 🙌 🙏 ❤️

Press their neck.


Anything aside Tinubu .

Parachoko:
Atiku has no shame.
He's one of the major reason the power sector is in a bad shape today

Today, Tinubu has also contributed to, and become one of the major reasons for, the sorry state of Nigeria’s power sector.

He did promise that if he couldn’t provide constant electricity within four years, Nigerians shouldn’t vote for him when he came back seeking re-election. Well, he has barely eight months left before the expiration of those four years, and where is the constant electricity?

There has been no meaningful improvement in electricity supply. In fact, the national grid recorded 12 collapses in 2024 alone, while repeated grid disturbances and blackouts have continued

And before the usual excuses begin: this was his promise, not ours.

He said, in his own words: “If I don’t give you constant electricity for four years, when I come back for a second term, don’t vote for me.

Four years is almost up.

The promise was four years.

Where's the constant electricity?

Bobloco:
Today, Tinubu has also contributed to, and become one of the major reasons for, the sorry state of Nigeria’s power sector.

Can you explain why you think Asiwaju has contributed to and become one of the major reasons for the sorry state of the Nigeria power sector?

Under Asiwaju, the Power Sector has been fully decentralised.

The Pubic and Private Sector can now Generate, Transmit and Distribute Power

It's made Possible by Asiwaju Government

It's a shame anybody will be blaming Asiwaju for the woes in the Power sector

Parachoko:
It's a shame anybody will be blaming Asiwaju for the woes in the Power sector

We blame your tilumbu ashitwaju jagbajantiz SQUARELY for the rot in the power sector and WE WILL NEVER VOTE HIM BACK AS HE SWORE IF HE LEAVES US WITHOUT 24/7 ELECTRICITY IN OUR HOMES

Oya begin to cry 😢 but first remind us who can never become presidentof nigeria unless you have kpai and been buried

We are waiting

tinibu is useless n incompetent allegedly

Athiechukwu never disappoints

Always spewing nonsense like his mentee Obiora

Atiku Abubakar, i don tire for your fairytales..

Abeg rest

One of his supporter is here. He is a core Theanubu supporter but look at how tinubu ended him like.👇🏻

Tinubu bought a Ship and Private Jet upon assumption of office and still expect right thinking Nigerians to support him .

I'm dying and struggling to avoid money for medication. If I die hold Tinubu responsible. I have never seen a heartless ruler as this

As if he knows better. How can a dullard and serial corruption enabler savage a country like Nigeria 🤔
Atiku can't fix nothing. He just wanna loot some more

Isaach Fayose just dropped a bombshell:

https://www.nairaland.com/8751558/isaac-fayose-claims-5-apc

@Nlfpmod

Tinibu no supposed to dey sleep
We must fire him,
Infact,he's fired

Hmmm, how many of today's politicians calling others name can proudly swear by sango of their innocence. They are all same.

Atiku is like jumping from frying pan to fire

Tinubu is the pan while atiku is the fire.

Recycled th!eves

A Drug Lord is always without a conscience..



To him everything is all about making money at all cost.


They are always SOULLESS AND WICKED.



🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

..lol...

Challenger.

Atiku you are mouthed

Politics is tough. It is not for the sincere. I can not bring myself to govern a people in sincerity without anything to gain, then I get pummeled and insulted.

The level of personal attacks and insults are so grave that the only compensation I can personally derive is taking as much trillions as I can cover up just to justify being in a position I am so insulted.

Tinubu has done a lot for Nigeria, yet he is so insulted. I was an Obidient, but not anymore, not because I do not like Peter Obi, but because Peter Obi is not capable of anti-fear psychology. He was not ready to defend his vote with his life despite winning the last election and was clearly stolen from. Yes he goes around with a feminine voice, clearly conceding his rights to Aso Rock to Tinubu and his mafioso gang.

Yet, Tinubu got better, he did everything Obi and Atiku promised in their manifesto and even more.

There is not much my one vote can do, but I dare say that I better be a Tinubu in this world than a Peter Obi.

Please dont stop ... You Atiku seems to be the only candidate speaking the pains of Nigeria ..

Peter Obi that one is so engrossed talking about himself and shooting himself on the feet

Talk on issues nd left when i was Anambra rest, there are things i know now if i go back 5yrs ago i wont even make such decisions

that is the Atiku U turn on subsidy, Tinubu doing it as shown why All leaders have avoided it

If to say curses dey work, I for say E no go better for APC and their supporters

Parachoko:
Atiku has no shame.
He's one of the major reason the power sector is in a bad shape today

Are you knew. Did they just hired you. All those one are old stories oo.
Fined something new oo.

TooMuchStuff:
As if he knows better. How can a dullard and serial corruption enabler savage a country like Nigeria 🤔
Atiku can't fix nothing. He just wanna loot some more

This us why I laugh whenever he castigate Tinubu, that man is one of the problem of Nigeria, infact they are all the same.

Atiku press on. Read this piece by Jagaban when he was outside.


June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

Bobloco:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/20/2027-ill-challenge-tinubu-daily-for-pushing-nigerians-into-poverty-hardship-atiku/

But you pushed them into prosperity when you sold our companies and assets to yourself and other Fulani cronies for dirt cheap prices. Yeah, right!!

Stanna2025:
I'm dying and struggling to avoid money for medication. If I die hold Tinubu responsible. I have never seen a heartless ruler as this

The problem with you folks is that you fail to recognize the fact that Tinubu is not God. He is not omnipresent. He is not your governor or local government chairman. He can't do everything.

SonOfWords:
Your demi-god is the president today and has been unable to better the same power sector after over three years of waltzing the aso rock corridors like a drunk leprechaun.

Better quiet your mouth there oga!

But even the lying machine that you're supporting also confessed that he couldn't pull that off in 4 years, not to talk of 3yrs that Tinubu has spent.

SeeWahala:
We blame your tilumbu ashitwaju jagbajantiz SQUARELY for the rot in the power sector and WE WILL NEVER VOTE HIM BACK AS HE SWORE IF HE LEAVES US WITHOUT 24/7 ELECTRICITY IN OUR HOMES

Oya begin to cry 😢 but first remind us who can never become presidentof nigeria unless you have kpai and been buried

We are waiting

You will never vote him back not we will