By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has said the leadership crisis rocking the Border Communities Development Agency BCDA is proof of a government adrift, insisting that President Bola Tinubu should abandon his 2027 re-election ambition and instead focus on correctly steering the ship of state.
In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu on Thursday, Atiku said the international embarrassment inflicted on Nigeria by the administration’s serial governance blunders has become unbearable, warning that the country is increasingly being portrayed as a state where official pronouncements no longer command official obedience.
Atiku insisted that the time had come for Tinubu to place national interest above personal political ambition.
He said; “Having presided over an administration that has lurched from one avoidable controversy to another, from policy reversals to institutional confusion, from worsening economic hardship to repeated governance failures, President Tinubu should take an honest look at the state of the nation and draw the only honourable conclusion. Rather than diverting public attention to an early re-election campaign, he should devote whatever remains of his tenure to addressing the pressing challenges confronting the nation or, better still, acknowledge that he has fallen short of the expectations of Nigerians and gracefully withdraw from the 2027 presidential contest.
