The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of hypocrisy over his criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
According to Keyamo, Atiku’s record in government
contradicted his remarks on the rising cost of living and insecurity in the
country.
The minister stated this in a post on his X handle while
reacting to Atiku’s comments on the economic hardship facing Nigerians.
Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic
Congress, ADC, had criticised Tinubu over the rising cost of living and
insecurity, saying Nigerian families were struggling to afford basic
necessities while citizens continued to live in fear of kidnapping and attacks.
Responding, Keyamo accused the former vice president of
overlooking his role in the liquidation of Nigeria Airways in September 2004,
during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said “Your Excellency, Atiku Abubakar @atiku, this is
hypocrisy at its peak! Let me just talk only about the sector that I head,
Aviation.
“In September, 2004, when you were Vice-President, your
Government woke up one morning and liquidated Nigeria Airways, throwing
thousands of Nigerian out of jobs and into sorrow and pain. To add salt into
their wounds, you refused to pay them their pensions and gratuities, running
into billions of Naira.
“Twenty-two years later, after many of them have died out of
frustration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT is now clearing the mess
you left behind. Over a month ago, Mr. President approved and released the
total sum N36 billion to bring succour to these families.
“They have started receiving alerts and praying for Mr.
President. In fact, the President was given an Award for this by the workers’
union a few weeks ago.
“Yet you seat down there and pontificate? It’s only the
younger ones who don’t know your history you can attempt to hoodwink, but we
will expose you to them. You cannot disguise your inordinate ambition in a
cloud of rhetorical gibberish.
“When it is convenient for you, you claim some credit of the
Obasanjo-Atiku government and when not convenient, you say Obasanjo was in
charge and not you as Vice-President. The proper posturing of a con artist.”
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