APC Govt Lacks Capacity To Formulate Economic Policies – Atiku
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration lacks the capacity to formulate appropriate economic policies that will put Nigeria on the right path of sustainable growth and development.
Atiku, who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC), also said since his active involvement in politics for almost three decades, there has never been a time that the country faced huge challenges as it is currently going through, with most Nigerians suffering and exposed to excruciating pains.
The Waziri, Adamawa stated these when he received in audience a delegation of the Middle Belt Publishers and Media Managers Forum, noting that a definitive economic policy is key to development, as it affects every aspect of governance, including security, infrastructure, welfare and every other sector that contributes to nation’s growth.
According to the former Vice President: “I am sorry to say that if there is one critical thing this government lacks; it is lack of capacity to fashion out an economic policy that is required for any government to use to address challenges.”
Commenting on his decision to dump the APC, Atiku said that in his over 28 years in active politics, he has come to the realization that there is no political decision taken that would attract 100 percent acceptability.
He said most people criticising his decision to dump the APC are talking from either weak or sentimental point of view which he said is permissible in democracy and as part of freedom of speech.
For him; “It is a question of views; but what matters most is having a superior point of view over what is being publicly expressed from an inferior point of view. I don’t lose sleep as a result of such comments any longer.”
He commended the Middle Belt media chiefs for their steadfastness in pursuing the truth, saying that what matters to him most is a sound economic base for Nigeria to create jobs, provide needed infrastructures, qualitative education, better welfare for Nigerians amongst other things.
Earlier, spokesman of the delegation, Dr Cletus Akwaya, who is also the Publisher of Daily Assets newspapers, said the leadership qualities of Atiku is presently needed by Nigerians at this critical point in the nation’s history.
Akwaya said the media is beginning to question the rationale why some political elites in Nigeria are against tested and dependable leaders like Atiku, stressing that the narrative has to change in the overall interest and common good of Nigerians.
