"Tinubu’s Broadcast A Waste Of Time": Atiku Expresses Grief Over President's Speech

• Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president and PDP presidential flagbearer in the 2023 election, has described President Bola Tinubu's live broadcast on Monday as uninspiring and deceptive
• The PDP leader, in a statement shortly after the president's speech, described the move as a complete waste of time
• Atiku said Tinubu's speech was an afterthought after his administration removed the fuel subsidy without a concrete plan to cushion its effects on poor Nigerians

FCT, Abuja - Atiku Abubakar, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, has criticised President Bola Tinubu's live broadcast on Monday, July 31.

President Tinubu addressed the country in a broadcast on Monday, stating that he was aware of the hardship in the country while rolling out his plan to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal.

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Atiku's reaction to President Tinubu's live broadcast

In the speech, the president promised that there would be "a glorious light" at the end of the darkness, adding that it is a pain that Nigerians have to go through to reach that promised land.

But in his reaction, the former vice president, in a statement sent to Legit.ng and signed by his special assistant on public communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the President's broadcast was "uninspiring and deceptive", adding that it was "a complete waste of time."

Atiku alleged that the broadcast was only meant to convince and stop organised labour from suspending its planned nationwide protest.

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Shaibu maintained that Tinubu only had the afterthought after his administration removed the fuel subsidy without a clear plan to cushion the hardship and pains that come with it on Nigerians, adding that the government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has made Nigerians poorer.

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Recall that Atiku and the PDP are still challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election that produced Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).

"President's Tinubu's 8k palliative will stem poverty": Polytechnic don

Legit.ng earlier reported that Biodun Oloyede, an academic and writer, has urged President Bola Tinubu to rethink the move of transferring N8,000 cash palliative to 12 million poor and vulnerable families in Nigeria.

Oloyede, who is don at the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, wondered what would happen to the 12 million families after the six months that the government planned to distribute the palliative.

The literati also posited that such palliative would amount to economic fortune for the country and its people.

Source: Legit.ng