Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, apologize to Nigerians for selling the country’s collective wealth while he was vice president.
Adeyemi insisted that Atiku is to blame for plunging Nigeria into the current state of destitution.
During an interaction with Kogi indigenes in Minna on Tuesday at a forum called ‘Tinubu/Shetiman Renewed Hope 2023,’ the APC stalwart asked Atiku to apologize for spending $16 million dollars on power holding without providing the country with a stable power supply.
He said:
Atiku under his watch as chairman of privatisation, sold our collective wealth and that was the origin of poverty and insecurity in Nigeria.
So, Atiku should first apologies to Nigerians for the way and manner they expended N16 million dollars for power holding and yet we don’t have 24 hours power supply.
Atiku should explain to us the maladministration of the privatisation exercise they embarked on which of course cumulated into insecurity and the prospect of Nigerian economy today was a result of the exercise by the PDP which was chaired by Atiku Abubakar.”
The Senator subsequently called on the electorates to pledge allegiance to the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and vote him into power in the upcoming elections
What Nigeria needs now is a man with great vision so that our foreign reserve will be enhanced, so that we will enjoy security of lives and property and the country’s economy will move to a higher level, he said.
He insisted that Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, come from wealthy families and have no desire to steal from the nation’s coffers.