Phrank Shaibu, an aide to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on communications, says the administration of President Bola Tinubu is not ready to serve Nigerians.
In a statement titled “10 Big Lies of Tinubu Administration”, Shaibu said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government prefers to use propaganda instead of doing the real work.
The aide said Nigerians have been experiencing bad leadership since former President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015.
“The repeated lies were evidence that Tinubu’s only plan was to use propaganda to deceive Nigerians, rather than do any proper work in rescuing citizens from the bottomless pit of bad governance they had been pushed into in the last eight years,” he said.
Shaibu said the presidency only retracted a statement issued by Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, that Tinubu is the first African leader to ring the closing bell at the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) because it was “caught”.
He said a proposed meeting between Tinubu and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as announced by Ngelale did not hold, hence the said proposed meeting might be a “lie”.
“This has turned out to be another embarrassing lie as Tinubu has departed UNGA and never met President Biden,” Shaibu said.
“Last month, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited claimed they had obtained an Afrexim loan of $3bn with which it would help stabilise the naira.
“We raised the alarm that it was all a ruse to deceive Nigerians. Now, we have been justified as the naira is now trading at $1/N1,000 on the black market, while Afrexim Bank has refused to speak on it.”
