The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, was on Tuesday embroiled in a war of words with former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Atiku had on Monday while speaking at an event organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) said as the head of the economic management team while he was Vice President (1999-2007), he was instrumental in designing a private sector revival strategy and advocated for the opening of the economy for private sector investments in several sectors — ideas he said handed Nigeria “tremendous progress”.