APC Accuses Atiku of Spreading Fear, Seeking to Destabilise Nigeria

Alhaji Atiku Abubarka, the former vice president, has been accused by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being an alarmist who wants to create chaos in the country by raising false alarms about hunger and insecurity that could lead to violent revolution.

In his capacity as an opposition figure, the former vice president has consistently opposed the current administration, accusing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the ruling APC of anti-people policies.

Atiku had on September 15, 2025, likened Nigeria’s predicament to the events that preceded the French Revolution (1789), the Bolshevick Revolution (1917), and the Arab Spring (2010) that engulfed the Arab globe.

APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka described the vituperation of the PDP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election as “a new low in a recent streak of incendiary commentaries by Atiku” in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday.

The statement was “reckless, irresponsible, unbefitting and degrading to his status as former Vice President,” according to Morka, who criticized the outburst as inappropriate for a former vice president.

“While disguised as a criticism of President Tinubu’s administration’s economic policies, Atiku’s statement is nothing less than a tacit instigation of a revolution in Nigeria,” Morka stated. His remarks are careless, disrespectful, inappropriate, and disrespectful of his position as former vice president.

During his two terms as vice president, Atiku and his PDP had the chance to end hunger, poverty, and insecurity with the help of enormous oil profits. But Atiku and his PDP didn’t. They actually did little to combat hunger, poverty, or insecurity in Nigeria. Although they were in power for 16 years, they were unable to end famine, poverty, and insecurity in Nigeria.

Rather, hunger and poverty in our nation were democratized by Atiku and his PDP. In addition to plundering and looting our money, they made corruption and wastefulness official state policy. The vile underpinnings of hunger, poverty, and insecurity were solidified by Atiku and his PDP, which President Tinubu is valiantly and tenaciously fighting to eradicate, with increasing success.

“Atiku had no idea how to address Nigeria’s economic problems in his role as vice president. “As a prospective president for life, he still has no idea what it takes to address our nation’s economic problems,” he said.