₦airaland Forum

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo SAN on Wednesday disclosed that President Bola Tinubu is clearing the mess former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar left behind in the liquidation of Nigeria Airways.

Keyamo who made the claim in a post on his X account, accused Atiku of “hypocrisy at its peak.”

He said the President has released N36 billion to settle workers’ unpaid entitlements.

He was reacting to a message by Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, who blamed the Tinubu administration for the rising cost of living in the country.

Atiku said “Bola made life expensive” and promised, “I will work to make life affordable again.” He also urged registered voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards PVCs.

Keyamo said he would speak only on the sector he heads. “Let me just talk only about the sector that I head, Aviation,” he wrote.

He recalled that “In September, 2004, when you were Vice-President, your Government woke up one morning and liquidated Nigeria Airways, throwing thousands of Nigerians out of jobs and into sorrow and pain.”

The minister said the workers’ suffering did not end there. “To add salt into their wounds, you refused to pay them their pensions and gratuities, running into billions of Naira,” he said.

According to him, Tinubu has now taken on the debt. “Twenty-two years later, after many of them have died out of frustration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now clearing the mess you left behind.

“Over a month ago, Mr President approved and released the total sum of N36 billion to bring succour to these families.

[b]They have started receiving alerts and praying for Mr. President. In fact, the President was given an Award for this by the workers’ union a few weeks ago.

Yet you sit down there and pontificate?

It is only the younger ones who don’t know your history you can attempt to hoodwink, but we will expose you to them. You cannot disguise your inordinate ambition in a cloud of rhetorical gibberish."[/b]

The minister also accused Atiku of picking and choosing when to own the record of the government he served in under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

"When it is convenient for you, you claim some credit of the Obasanjo-Atiku government and when not convenient, you say Obasanjo was in charge and not you as Vice-President. The proper posturing of a con artist!” Keyamo said.

Zionmdde:
Na wa ooo
The blame is still going way back 20years ago

Na wa ooo
These people have no shame at all

Ofunaofu:
Kayemo is a clown

Infact this Government is populated with clowns

Eba50:
So na atiku them wan blame now bah, not obasanjo, not good luck, or yaradua, not even bokobandits bihari

rossipki:
You people hate the TRUTH with a passion.

Disgraceful comment.

Sonnobax15:
was Atiku not a part and parcel of the syndicates that started creating the problem which we've found ourselves in at this moment? . Talk truth my brother

Ofunaofu:
Which truth are you talking about

Hezzyluv:
They don't really have an iota of shame. The funny thing is that, another government will come and blame the present government and another one after them do same. And the cycle continues.

E go dey hard for this country to get better.

Mariangeles:
Keyamo is only doing what he is paid to do.
Not that he cares about the people.

rossipki:
The truth of what Keyamo just said!

Abi you've forgotten how to read?

Ofunaofu:
I didn’t come across any truth. Kayemo was doing comedy, which is why I called him a clown.

You’re the one who brought up the word truth, so what truth are you talking about?

rossipki:
My friend will you go and sit down..

KEEP PRETENDING YOU CAN'T READ.

Zionmdde:
Na wa ooo
The blame is still going way back 20years ago

Na wa ooo
These people have no shame at all

Abbeytoy:
The debt lingers for those 20 years. If Tinubu did not pay it nko?

Zionmdde:
Na wa ooo
The blame is still going way back 20years ago

Na wa ooo
These people have no shame at all

Ofunaofu:
Spare me the “go and sit down” theatrics.

You’re telling me to read, yet you still haven’t answered a simple question: what truth are you talking about?

You’re the one who brought up the word truth, but you can’t even mention the truth you claim I’m pretending not to see.

Kayemo was doing comedy, and I called him a clown. If you have a point, make it. If you have the truth, state it. All this noise without a single fact is just another comedy show.

Kushites:
One minute you're Nnamdi Kanu, the next minute you're supporting northern looters like Atiku.

Make up your mind, Confusionist.

Zionmdde:
Na wa ooo
The blame is still going way back 20years ago

Na wa ooo
These people have no shame at all