“Both President Tinubu and his inept APC administration should seek more knowledge about good governance and developmental communication

“What emergency or unforeseen expenditure justifies increasing the service-wide vote from ₦638.34 billion in 2024 to over ₦12.8 trillion in 2026? That is an increase of approximately 1,918 per cent in barely two years,” Wanna said, dismissing the APC’s contingency-fund defence as a “lazy excuse”.

“President Tinubu owes Nigerians an unreserved apology for presiding over this unprecedented collapse of public accountability. If he cannot immediately restore public confidence through a genuinely independent investigation and ensure that everyone responsible is held to account, then he has forfeited the moral authority to continue in office. The honourable course is simple: apologise to Nigerians and resign,” he declared.

“Anything less will reinforce the growing perception that religion is being exploited as a convenient cover for diverting public resources.

Atiku zeroed in on the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, where he said N2.19 trillion of the SWV is listed as personnel costs, dwarfing the N54.8 billion allocated for salaries at the Federal Ministry of Finance. “Who exactly are the workers earning ₦2.19 trillion? Where are they? What offices do they occupy? What agencies do they belong to?” he asked, describing the figures as budgetary absurdity rather than legitimate planning.

Atiku said the revelation, coming alongside Nigeria’s poor showing on nearly 90 percent of globally recognised prosperity indicators, exposes the Tinubu administration as one of the most fiscally reckless governments in Nigeria’s democratic history.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a pre-election dispute suit filed by the former governor of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi, against former vice president Atiku Abubakar.

“How does a serious government budget N6.44 billion for presidential support for World Cup qualifiers after the country had already been eliminated? What competition was the money intended to support? Who inserted the provision, who approved it and who was expected to benefit from an expenditure whose stated purpose had already ceased to exist?” Atiku queried.

‘Nigerians expected a commander-in-chief leading from the front. Following the successful rescue operation, the president ought to have immediately addressed the nation alongside his defence chiefs’

Section 80 is unequivocal: no money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly

“We are fully aware of their plots. While they seek to sow confusion within the opposition, we know their real target is the ADC because it represents the most credible alternative. If the All Progressives Congress (APC) is truly confident in its popularity, why is it so terrified of the ADC?” Atiku queried.

“It is the coming together of two tested statesmen with experience, national reach, and leadership capacity required to rescue Nigeria”

“I don’t believe it’s the South. I think you have the Igbos, who are very different culturally and historically from the Yorubas of the southwest, who are very different historically and culturally from the various ethnicities that are in the Niger Delta.

“I think that his biggest achievement has been making Nigerians poorer, and it’s sad that, negatively, Nigerians are poorer today, and the reason we are poorer is because of the instability of the economy,” he said.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed allegations by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Mr. Babachir Lawal, over the conduct of the African Democratic Congress ADC presidential primary, describing them as a cocktail of bitterness, conjecture, and political revisionism dressed up as public interest.