“It is another attempt to perpetrate illegality by the Federal Government. The government must be cautioned to act strictly within the provisions of the Pension Reform Act of 2014 (PRA 2014), along with the revised Regulation on Investment of Pension Assets issued by the National Pension Commission (PenCom).”
Browsing: Atiku Abubakar
“Atiku and Wike fell apart in the build-up to the 2023 general elections after Atiku beat Wike to the PDP presidential ticket and also did not pick him as a running mate for the election,” the newspaper said.
Tension is growing in the PDP over the perception that Wike, a serving Minister in the Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government, is rumoured to remain in the PDP, allegedly to have control of its National Working Committee (NWC), while he works against it during the 2027 presidential election.
ASHENEWS reports that former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has told President Bola Tinubu that his wrong policies had caused untold hardship to Nigerians.
“It is an arbitrary order capable of undermining the operational independence of the NNPCL. By this order, Mr. President has wrested control of the finances of the NNPCL and donated the same to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is an unprecedented act, without any legal or ethical basis. It is also a violation of the principle of due process in public administration”
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has told President Bola Tinubu to note that basic commodities, including a simple stapple – bread, are becoming out of reach for average Nigerians. He says Tinubu’s “economic policies, drawn from a so-called renewed hope agenda, are ironically dashing hopes, creating pain and causing despair.”
The presidency has urged Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, to provide better alternatives to challenges of the country.
Former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu for enabrking on private visit to France while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90 million ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti.
Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde has lamented that since the Ibadan mining explosion, of the three major candidates who contested the 2023 presidential election, only Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of his own Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had not called or sent a message to commiserate with the people of the state.
According to him, “it is inconceivable for the Federal Government to take a loan of $3.3 billion with an interest rate that is not more than 12 per cent, but with estimated repayment amounting to $12 billion”, adding that it is also that “Nigeria’s current Barrels Produced Daily (BPD) is 1.38 million, and according to the Project Gazelle deal, Nigeria is to supply 90,000 Barrels of its daily production, starting from 2024 till it is up to 164.25 million barrels for the repayment of the loan.”