A group named All Atiku Support Group (AASG) has accused
President Muhammadu Buhari of implementing some policies which Atiku Abubakar
proposed while contesting for president in 2019.
The group said the policies in question were contained in
the campaign document of Abubakar, who challenged Buhari in the election under
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Oladimeji Fabiyi, AASG chairman, added via a statement on
Thursday that while some of the plans have been adopted, the government has
indicated interest to implement others.
Fabiyi said examples of such is the government’s decision to
devalue the Naira and “privatise” the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
“It will be recalled that during the 2019 presidential
campaign, one of the prime policy proposals by Atiku Abubakar was to reset the
Naira in order to market the national currency to be more competitive and to
create more traffic for direct foreign investments in Nigeria,” he said.
“The APC and supporters of President Buhari called Atiku all
manner of names at that time. But today, they have stealthily embraced that
same policy, although giving it a different nomenclature.”
The group further said Abubakar, a former vice-president,
had also proposed to privatise the NNPC and use the revenue generated from its
sale to provide key infrastructure in the country.
“When Atiku suggested that the federal government had no
need to keep on holding exclusive equity stakes in the Nigeria National
Petroleum Company (NNPC), he was derided for it,” it added.
“They did not bother to take time to ponder over the logic
of that suggestion. They instantly threw away the baby with the bath water.”
“Today, after running the economy aground in five years, the
harsh reality has dawned on them to uphold the truth they once made a mockery
of.”
It listed other measures proposed by Abubakar to include
closure of Nigeria’s borders, provision of palliative to the poor and
vulnerable, and reduction of the national budget.
“We wish to appeal to the APC and the Buhari administration
to take full advantage of the suggestions in the Atiku policy document which
was not made public but submitted to the administration,” it added.
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