₦airaland Forum

Venom236:
[s]Contradictions in Atiku's policy document

Given the level of noise and chest-thumping that preceded the release of Atiku Abubakar's policy document one had expected something fantastic and novel. Sadly, like most things ever linked to him, the document is filled with contradictions and outright lies.

~Atiku says if elected he would sell more national assets including our petroleum refineries and the NNPC. Can we ever trust a man who sold NEPA, NITEL, Nigeria Airways, Tafawa Balewa Square etc to his friends and cronies? Never.

~ Atiku Abubakar as Vice President for 8 years was Chairman of the National Council on Privatization. Strategic national assets were sold under controversial circumstances. Nigeria was shortchanged in the process.

~Atiku promised to finance his infrastructure plan with the same Sukuk interest free bond introduced by the APC government. The noble thing to do is simply to commend the Buhari administration before stealing his idea.

~His party, PDP, had consistently criticized the Sukuk bond option as an attempt by the APC to Islamize Nigeria, even though Britain, which is not an Islamic country, has since embraced the idea.

~Atiku promised to create 3 million jobs per year, which is going to be another scam. This is a man who recently claimed to have 50,000 people on his payroll and within days claimed again that the figure was 100,000. He and his surrogates took cover under darkness when they were asked by Nigerians to provide evidence of the claims.

~He also promised to lift 50 million people out of extreme poverty by 2025, among other unrealistic things he wants to do by that year. He must have forgotten that he had repeatedly promised to serve for only one term, if elected, and that one term expires in 2023.

~He made a lot of wild claims about security challenges around the country without acknowledging that the present administration has done a lot to arrest the situation in recent months. He also failed to remind Nigerians that militancy in the Niger Delta was at its peak when he was Vice President and that kidnapping which later became a thriving business, started with the Presidency-backed kidnapping of Governor Chris Ngige of Anambra state in 2003.[/s]

Mogidi:
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MeanChris:
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