On 18th June, 2024 the Presidential Candidate from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) of the just concluded General Election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in a statement released by his media aide while reacting to the recent statement of the President of Nigeria, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the good citizens of the country were not the only people facing the current hardship, but we must face their challenges, and they must find a way to eliminate banditry and terrorism so that farmers could bring out food from the farmlands, revealed that President Tinubu’s trial-and-error policies have continued to dig the country deeper into economic degradation.
According to Vanguard, the Presidential Candidate from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) of the just concluded General Election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said "What Nigerians are seeing manifest is insensitivity, bigotry, nepotism, corruption, and wastefulness. For the President to speak about us finding a way to eliminate banditry and terrorism is an acknowledgment of failure. What we expect to hear from him are the measures and the strategy to deal with the menace and not to regale us with the problems we are all well aware of. The poverty in Nigeria is multi-dimensional. It was exacerbated by the policies of the Tinubu administration that did not prioritize production and cutting costs. Policies that were not well-thought-out and were only aimed at pauperizing the citizens. Tinubu’s trial-and-error policies have continued to dig the country deeper into economic degradation."
The former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar added that the administration of the President of Nigeria, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, lacked transparency and accountability because his administration was paying for fuel subsidies, contrary to the claims that it was going for good. He also added that President Bola Tinubu was the one causing the current economic hardship facing the country.