‘He’s first-class accounting graduate’ – Presidency hits Atiku for calling Tinubu ‘dull’
Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, has tackled the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for describing the...
Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, has tackled the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for describing the president as a dull student.
Dare described Atiku’s remark as sheer absurdity, stressing that Tinubu was a first-class accounting graduate.
On Friday, Atiku likened Tinubu to a dull student who copied his classmate’s answer while reacting to the Federal Government’s announcement of a 30-day fuel price discount.
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, had announced a 30-day fuel price discount at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, filling stations across the country.
However, the ADC presidential candidate accused Tinubu of copying his proposal for a production subsidy.
Reacting in a statement he signed, Dare said Atiku’s attempt to portray himself as a smart student of economic policy fell apart under even light scrutiny.
The statement reads partly:
“Atiku’s attempt to position himself as the ‘smart student’ teaching economic policy falls apart under even light scrutiny. First, it is sheer absurdity that a man who graduated from a school of hygiene dares to call a first-class accounting graduate a dull student.
“Second, @atiku’s proposal for a blanket ‘production subsidy’ is not an alternative economic model, it is a dangerous mathematical fantasy wrapped in political deceit.
“Unhinged, Atiku Abubakar arrogantly claims that President Tinubu copied his economic homework while stripping away the core element that makes it work: the ‘production subsidy.’
“But let us examine the actual numbers that Atiku deliberately conceals from the Nigerian public.”
