I’m concerned about hardship Tinubu has plunged Nigerians into not 2027 election: Atiku replies Bode George

• Atiku said he’s not fixated on the 2027 presidency at the moment but how to get the country out of the troubled water it is stuck in.

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, says there are more pressing and cogent matters of national significance that unsettle him than 2027 presidency.

Atiku said he’s not fixated on the 2027 presidency at the moment but how to get the country out of the troubled water it is stuck in.

The former Vice President said this in reaction to a remark by the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) member, Chief Bode George, that he should not bother running for the presidency in 2027.

Atiku, however, said he’s currently preoccupied with the excruciating hardship, suffering and indignity Nigerians are grappling with under President Bola Tinubu.

He implored the PDP chieftain to urge Tinubu to review his policies with a view to ameliorating the suffering of Nigerians and not comment on his political future.

In statement by his spokesman, Paul Ibe, Atiku said it was insensitive and callous to speak of next presidential election when the outcome of the last one has left the country in a perilous and parlous state.

He said: “We cannot afford to put the cart before the horse. At this point, Atiku Abubakar’s preoccupation is not 2027. His concern is about 2024.

“It is about 2025 and 2026 and beyond. His concern is about the plight of Nigerians who are literarily going through hell because of the failed trial-and-error policies of this administration.

“The average citizen, and indeed all Nigerians, need to survive the tsunami that has become the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

“It is insensitive to be talking about 2027 now when the 2023 mandate has not yielded any tangible benefits for Nigerians, who are now far worse off in every facet of life.

“Bode George himself should also turn his attention to counselling Tinubu to reassess some of his ill-advised policies that have deepened poverty and divisions in our country instead of prioritising the politics of 2027.”