Atiku Abubakar went after Senator Abdul’aziz Yari pretty hard. The former vice president and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate didn’t like what he heard from Yari, who serves as director-general of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council.
He zeroed in on Yari’s recent comments about the economy. The way Atiku saw it, the senator’s grammar was so tangled and off that it could wake the dead.
The whole thing kicked off after Yari spoke at an APC rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. He told the crowd that Nigerians facing hunger were basically just lazy. Food was everywhere in the markets, he said, as long as you had money to pay for it.
Atiku pushed back through a statement from Phrank Shaibu, his special assistant on public communication for the ADC campaign. He called out the APC leadership for brushing aside the real economic pain spreading across the country.
“The campaign’s director-general claims that hungry Nigerians are just lazy. He gave that statement in such bad grammar that it could wake the dead,” Atiku stated. “This government doesn’t even think Nigerians are hungry. How can you fix an issue you won’t even admit exists?”
He accused the ruling party of helping create widespread poverty and then turning around to mock people stuck in it. His own campaign, he said, would put real money into social welfare and support for families on the edge. That stands in clear contrast to what he called the APC’s distance from daily life for most Nigerians.
With election season picking up speed, this latest exchange shows the sharp divide between opposition voices and those in power over how to handle the economy and talk about it.
