Criticizing Tinubu will not make you great, P-PWAN tells Atiku

A non- governmental organisation, the People Petition Writers Association of Nigeria (P-PWAN) has cautioned the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over his continuous criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s policies, saying such criticism will not make the former vice president great.

P-PWAN President, Prince Elias Odoemena, in a statement made available to media houses, said that Atiku is not saying anything new apart from what ordinary Nigerian citizens said before.

Prince Odoemena said that expirence is always what is left with a man when everything fails him, noting that Nigerians would like Atiku as former Vice President to exhibit wisdom when proffering suggestions that can help the current administration if he has any, instead giving empty press releases that condemn President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration without bringing solution on board.

” People Petition Writers Association of Nigeria expects Atiku Abubakar to bring suggestions and if President Tinubu refuse to use them then we, in P-PWAN, can tell Nigerians that the President didn’t want to use Atiku’s good suggestions, that can move the nation forward instead of talking down on the government without proffering solutions from his side,” the statement added.

Prince Odoemena said that students of history in Nigeria political setting knew that President Tinubu was once Atiku’s boss when he left People’s Democrats Party and Tinubu did not only offer him shelter in his political party then, but he also gave him presidential candidate in his Action Congress of Nigrria (ACN)..

He disclosed that said Atiku have direct access to the President Tinubu, and if he truly loves this country, he should not be talking to him through empty press releases.

“Atiku has chosen to be going to the press each time he came back from his Dubai-based home and finds joy in criticizing the current administration, with no tangible thing to hold on to,” he said.

He said the former vice president should be providing criticism with solutions because any criticism coming from a former Vice President without solution will automatically be an attack to the government.