Presidency Tackles Atiku For Addressing Tinubu By His First Name

The Presidency has criticised the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ,ADC , Atiku Abubakar for not adressing President Bola Ahmed with his official title, dscribing the act as insolence.

The criticism came from the President’s Special Adviser, Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, who said it was wrong for the former vice president to adress the president as ”Bola Tinubu.”

Ababakar had, while adressing a press conference in Abuja,on the need forthe adminsitration to reduce the pumpprice ofpetrol addressed the president wihtout his official title of President and Commander in Chief ofthe Armed Forces. He addressed the president, in most part ofthe conference ”as Bola Tinubu” , an action whic Dare said wasvery uncomplimentary of him.

“Bola Tinubu should not be ashamed to do what is necessary to lower the price of petrol simply because Atiku Abubakar proposed a government intervention,” Abubakar said during the confenece, adding that Nigerians should not be made to pay more for the product.

Reacting, Dare reburfdd the NDC candidate saying Abubakar is not in the right position to advice President Tinubu on any economicissues, describing the NDC candidate’s ”as the height of insolence.”

He said what the president is doing is to lay a solidfoundation forthe nation’sfuture devastated by decades of structural inertia and subsidy hemorrhaging.

According to Dare: “Alhaji Atiku’s manner of addressing President Bola Tinubu as Bola is the height of insolence. It is a clear descent into the abyss of unbridled desperation and an unravelling mind.

“To seek to lecture a sitting president with the unbridled insolence of dropping his first name, petulantly barking instructions, and dictating how governance should be run within a truncated timeline is the height of political hubris.

“Nigerians do not need lectures on fiscal management from a political wanderer whose decades-long pursuit of the presidency has been defined by perpetual opportunism. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is doing the heavy, foundational lifting required to restructure an economy crippled by decades of structural inertia and subsidy hemorrhaging.

“Atiku’s sudden conversion to the gospel of interventionism rings hollow. This is a desperate strategy by a perennial seeker of power who weaponizes transient national discomforts for electoral mileage.”

The Presidency and the 2027 NDC presidentialcandidate have , lately, been engaged in a war of attrition over the  management of the economy, particularly regarding the removalof the fuel subsidy by the incumbent.

Abubakar hs promsied to restore the subsidy if elected into office next year.