Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and contender for the presidency under the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, has called the $3 billion loan given to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to stable the naira a fraudulent injection into the economy.
According to a statement released on Wednesday by Atiku through his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, the stated reason for the loan is a hoax to encourage the naira’s appreciation in the black market.
He further added that the move was cosmetic and unimaginative and had once again “Exposed President Bola Tinubu as a Lilliputian economist that lacked ideas on how to rescue the economy he had pushed to the edge with unviable policies.”
