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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has urged President Bola Tinubu to confront his alleged failings of the Federal Government, saying rhetoric cannot rescue his administration.
Atiku, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the greatest opponent confronting President Tinubu in the 2027 polls is neither the African Democratic Congress (ADC) nor any other political party but his records in the last three years.
The President, in a meeting with the leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) at the State House in Abuja, said he was prepared to wrestle his opponents in next year’s election to the finishing point.
However, Atiku, ADC 2027 presidential candidate, described the President’s speech as an attempt to divert attention from his allegedly abysmal records in office.
He noted that President Tinubu’s response to an appeal by the CBCN for credible, transparent and peaceful elections, underscores a troubling lack of the courtesy and humility expected of his office during such a high-profile engagement.
According to him, a President presiding over the worst cost-of-living crisis in recent memory ought not to be talking about wrestling political opponents, but about wrestling inflation to the ground, defeating hunger, restoring security, stabilising the Naira and rebuilding public confidence in government.
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The former Vice President stated that “the President should wrestle with millions of Nigerians who now skip meals because food has become a luxury. He should wrestle with the insecurity that has turned farming communities into graveyards and highways into hunting grounds for criminals.
“He should wrestle with the unemployment that has robbed an entire generation of hope. He should wrestle with an economy suffocating under policy inconsistency, reckless borrowing and dwindling investor confidence.”
According to him, when leaders fail, they often resort to political theatre in the hope that loud rhetoric will drown out the cries of suffering citizens.
“His greatest opponent is his own record. Every unpaid worker, every struggling business, every unemployed graduate, every victim of insecurity and every hungry family is a living testimony to the consequences of his administration’s choices. That is the contest he has consistently failed to win.”
The ADC candidate added that democracy is a marketplace of ideas and accountability, noting that governments earn another term through competence, compassion and measurable results, not through combative rhetoric.
“In 2027, Nigerians will not be stepping into a wrestling arena. They will be stepping into polling units to deliver a constitutional verdict.
“The Nigerian people are not looking for a wrestler. They are looking for a leader. History will not remember who shouted the loudest. It will remember who governed the best.”
