According to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, the country requires an experienced manager to handle its business and cannot afford to have a “greenhorn” in charge of Africa’s most populous country.
He said this at the National Economic Summit Group (NESG) presidential forum on the economy on Monday in Lagos. He did this to hint in a subtle way that the current government, the All Progressives Congress (APC), should not be given power again.
“While I was Vice President, I oversaw the economic management team and played a key role in developing a plan to revive the private sector.” I also pushed for the opening of the economy to private sector investment in a number of industries. The former vice president posted on his account, “And we made fantastic progress.”
“I’m sure you still have fond memories of the prosperous era marked by quick economic expansion, stable interest and exchange rates, low inflation, low unemployment, and a small number of people living in poverty. We almost completely paid off the nation’s huge foreign debt.
It would be dangerous for Nigeria to put its future in the hands of a new leader or the national leader of the same party that got us into this very bad situation.
One of the front-runners for next month’s presidential election is Atiku, a native of Adamawa in the North-East who served as Olusegun Obasanjo‘s vice president from 1999 to 2007.
The 76-year-old, who is running under the main opposition party, will face off against opponents such as Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu is a former governor of Lagos State.
On February 25, there will be a presidential election in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the country’s electoral watchdog, estimates that 94 million people would cast ballots in what pundits have dubbed a “four-horse race.”
