Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly criticised Bola Ahmed Tinubu over remarks suggesting he is trying to privatise the African Democratic Congress (ADC) amid its ongoing leadership crisis.
In a statement issued on Friday through his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku described the president’s comments as unfounded and indicative of what he called hypocrisy and selective memory.
“Atiku Abubakar’s attention has been drawn to the latest reckless tirade by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – a performance that exposes not just desperation, but a troubling pattern of hypocrisy and historical amnesia.”
He further argued that Tinubu’s criticism fails to stand up to scrutiny, stressing that the administration is now pursuing policy reforms it had previously opposed.
Atiku also raised concerns about the handling of the national oil company, accusing the government of introducing a system lacking transparency, with unclear valuation and accountability, and questioning who ultimately benefits from the process.
“This is not reform; it is privatisation without accountability.
“It is not our fault that the President does not and can not read, because Bola Tinubu has a history of attending a school in Lagos two years before it was founded, upon which he claimed his crooked Chicago State University degree.
“If he were properly educated he would have acquainted himself with the privatisation records in the presidency or the painstaking account of these reforms as captured by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai in The Accidental Public Servant, where the privatisation programme was clearly documented as a bold and structured effort to dismantle inefficiency and drive private sector-led growth,” Atiku said.
