‘Desperation of most pitiful kind’ – APC blasts Atiku over fuel subsidy comment

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has blasted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over his recent fuel subsidy comment.

In a statement posted on its verified X handle on Thursday, the APC, through its national spokesman, Felix Morka, said Atiku had backflipped from his 2023 policy support for fuel subsidy removal to a promise to restore fuel subsidy if elected president in 2027.

DAILY POST recalls that Atiku had, during an interview on Wednesday, pledged to reinstate the fuel subsidy regime if he is elected president of Nigeria in 2027.

Reacting, the APC said, “This is desperation of the most pitiful kind. An admission he is clueless and out of touch with Nigeria’s economic realities and imperatives of reform.

“It is also a wilful blindness to transformative progress recorded by the Tinubu administration and grossly bereft of ideas of alternative economic policy prescription.

“This is a last-ditch grasping at straws of misplaced populism that sets up to what may well become the final defeat, in 2027, of the longest presidential ambition in Nigeria’s electoral history.”