Why We Must Help Buhari’s Government ― Atiku

Atiku Abubakar

The Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari needs help.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in 2019, said helping the current administration amounts to Nigerians saving themselves.

The Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari needs help.

Atiku made this known in a piece entitled: ‘World’s Highest Unemployment Rate: Time To Help This Government Help Nigeria’.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in 2019, said helping the current administration amounts to Nigerians saving themselves.

Atiku added that rather than listen to advice, the government reads wrong meanings to ideas and suggestions offered by its critics.

He also linked the high crime rate to the unprecedented level of unemployment, saying “I have never felt so bad at being proven right, as I am by the report from Bloomberg Business on Saturday, March 27, 2021 that Nigeria is to emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth, at just over 33%.”

The former Vice President added, “We warned about this, but repeated warnings by myself and other patriots were scorned. And now this.

“How did Nigeria get here? We got here by abandoning the people centred leadership and free trade and deregulatory policies of the Obasanjo years (which saw us maintain an almost single digit unemployment rate), and implementing discredit command and control policies that have led to massive capital flight from Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari

“And with the paucity of funds, we continue to ramp up government involvement in sectors that ought to be left to private sector, with the latest being the ill advised $1.5 billion so called rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery that has failed to turn a profit for years.

“What this government must realise is that the unprecedented insecurity Nigeria is facing is the result of youth unemployment. Idleness is the worst feature of unemployment because it channels the energy of our youth away from production, and towards destruction, and that is why Nigeria is now the third most terrorised nation on Earth.

“We are at a precipice as a nation and the truth is that all stakeholders and elder statesmen have to speak up on time, while there is still a Nigeria to save. This government obviously lacks the capacity to address our current challenges, and we must help them, not because of the government, but because of our people,” Atiku wrote.