Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the National Assembly to identify and expose officials responsible for the alleged N210bn duplicated and overlapping allocations in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress also called for an immediate forensic investigation into the budget, saying the alleged irregularities reflected deepening fiscal indiscipline under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Atiku said the reported duplications, alongside what he described as the country’s poor performance on global prosperity indicators, had exposed one of the most fiscally reckless administrations in Nigeria’s democratic history.
In a statement issued on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku argued that the revelations had undermined the government’s claims that its economic reforms were restoring stability.
“For more than three years, Nigerians have been subjected to relentless hardship. They were told that fuel subsidy removal, exchange rate unification, higher taxes and rising tariffs were bitter pills that would eventually restore economic stability.
