A group has condemned a strategy meeting hep by Atiku Abubakar
in Dubai – The group said the venue of the meeting has shown
Nigerians Atiku’s extravagant lifestyle unsuitable for a president
– According to the group, the Dubai meeting is an indication to
Atiku’s dangerous tendency to hand Nigeria over to foreign
interests with Dubai being his latest preference A civil society
organisation has condemned the strategy meeting held by former vice
president and Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for
2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, and members of his team in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.
The New Agenda for Positive Change said the development was a
sad reminder of the former vice president’s extravagant lifestyle.
The group led by Raymond Amuna said the meeting in Dubai is an
indication to Atiku’s dangerous tendency to hand Nigeria over to
foreign interests with Dubai being his latest preference. Amuna
also challenged the PDP presidential candidate to explain to
Nigerians how he intends to run a domestic-oriented economy for the
masses with the kind of lavish lifestyle of taking his strategy
team with over 400 members to Dubai.
‘ He said:“There are various exotic venues in Nigeria that he
could have used and have members of his team spend money to boost
the local economy but he decided to expend his N20 million annual
income in ferrying Peter Obi, Secondus and other clowns in his
circus to Dubai for the strategy session. It is therefore not
surprising that his team issued the statement castigating the
government for planning to use the proceeds of privatization to
fund the national budget.
The first thing of note is that Atiku Abubakar, a onetime Vice
President (1999 to 2007) and by default the chairman of the
National Economic Council (NEC) at the time, was the originator of
privatization or in layman’s term selling government owned
enterprises, businesses and assets. It was under him that the chant
of “government has no business in business” or “government is
incapable of managing businesses” first gained ground and have
remained a part of our collective psyche today,” Amuna said. “This
is why even as the nation continues to explore the diversification
of its revenue source under President Muhammadu Buhari, people have
been conditioned to the point that no one is thinking of creating
enterprises that will address unemployment and revenue sources
simultaneously.
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less on the Internet! “Secondly, Atiku Abubakar spoke from
experience. He is not sure that the national assets in question
would be allocated to him and his cronies as it was done under his
watch when he held sway over the privatization of most of the
country’s assets.
“He is therefore definitely waiting until such a time when he is
certain that he can acquire the same assets for pittance. His media
organization ranted on about how the assets to be sold were built
by the PDP without being able to list a single one of them, which
implies that the PDP candidate is claiming what he did not
achieve,” Amuna added. Meanwhile, retwtr.com previously reported
that the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Bola Tinubu, had said that former vice president and presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar,
does not pose any threat. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday, October 31,
after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Is Atiku the
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