Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed what he would have done differently as the president to transform Nigeria.
Amid an economic hardship faced by Nigerians due to the rise in the prices of food items caused by the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu, Atiku revealed the steps he would have taken to move the country forward.
In a post on his official X account on Sunday, Atiku said he has been inundated with inquiries of what he would have done differently if he were at the helm of affairs of Nigeria.
“I am not the president, Tinubu is. The focus should be on him and not on me or any other. I believe that such inquiries distract from the critical questions of what President Bola Tinubu needs to do to save Nigerians from the excruciating pains arising from his trial-and-error economic policies,” he wrote.
“However, I understand and appreciate the challenges faced by citizens in seeking alternatives to what is not working for them. I hope Tinubu and members of his administration are humble enough to borrow one or two things from our ideas in the interest of the Nigerian people. I would now go ahead and articulate some of our ideas that would have had the potential to transform our beloved country.”
Atiku said in general, he would have planned better and more robustly as his journey of reforms would have benefited from more adequate preparations, more sufficient diagnostic assessment of the country’s conditions, more consultations with key stakeholders, and better ideas for the final destination.
He said his administration as the president would have been guided by his robust reform agenda as encapsulated in ‘My Covenant With Nigerians’, his policy document that sought to, among others, protect the country’s fragile economy against much deeper crisis by preventing business collapse, with his document having spelt out policies that were consistent and coherent.
