Atiku Is The Architect of Nigeria’s Crippled Economy — Ex-Tinubu Spokesman Onoh

 

Josef Onoh has attacked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his comments accusing President Bola Tinubu of gradually turning Nigeria into his private business just as he did in Lagos.

 

Onoh, a former President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman in the Southeast slammed Atiku, accusing him of running Nigeria's economy down when he was the country's Vice President. 

 

Atiku had said that President Tinubu has effectively mortgaged Nigeria’s future to himself, family and associates to the extent that even after he leaves office, it would be nearly impossible for the nation to break free from his shackles.

 

“Just as Alpha Beta, Primero and others act as Tinubu’s proxies in Lagos, managing critical sectors and generating revenue for him and his family, he has begun to replicate this at the federal level,” Atiku said.

 

Reacting, however, Onoh described Atiku as a salesman who presided over Nigeria’s privatisation programme and made millions of Nigerians jobless.

 

According to him, Atiku’s comments were misleading and aimed at generating resentment for the president and members of his family. He added that Atiku was the forerunner of the current hardship and poverty in Nigeria when he mortgaged Nigeria’s future to companies of his cronies and associates that robbed the country of her assets.

 

“In 2006, the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi, was acquired by Babalakin’s Resort Ltd., a 15-story prime asset overgrown with weeds, from Atiku and OBJ through a Development Lease Agreement (DLA) for N7.2 billion. A court asked Buhari to pay N54 billion to Babalakin for that blunder,” Onoh stated.