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The APC National Stakeholders Media Support Group (APC-NSMSG) says the 2027 presidential election will certainly be a referendum on information, however insists President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will prevail over former Vice President Atiku Abubakar primarily based on efficiency. The group was responding to a assertion credited to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), by means of his aide Phrank Shaibu, titled “2027 election will be referendum on your record.” In a press launch issued from its Kaduna Flag-Off Media Centre and signed by its Secretary/Convener, Dr. Oladimeji Adams, the APC-NSMSG stated it welcomes Atiku’s name for a referendum on information. “We thank Atiku for finally saying the truth. Yes, 2027 will be referendum on record. And we are ready,” the group stated. The APC-NSMSG stated earlier than calling for a referendum on Tinubu’s file, Atiku’s personal file as Vice President from 1999 to 2007 ought to be positioned side-by-side with Tinubu’s file. On Atiku’s query about which administration eliminated petrol subsidy and watched naira fall from N471 to N1,329, the group stated it was the identical administration that saved Nigeria from what it referred to as Atiku’s pretend subsidy economic system. It stated Atiku in his 2023 manifesto promised to take away subsidy on day one, including that the distinction is that Tinubu eliminated subsidy and saved N7.1 trillion which was channeled to FAAC, scholar mortgage and infrastructure, whereas Atiku would have given it to associates as was executed with NITEL and ALSCON privatization. On the naira, the group stated for 16 years of PDP, together with eight years when Atiku was Vice President, a pretend fee of N471 was operated that made CBN spend $1.5 billion month-to-month defending naira, whereas Tinubu stopped the round-tripping and grew international reserves from $33 billion to $42 billion. On the query of poverty and World Bank estimate of 63 p.c beneath poverty line, the APC-NSMSG stated the determine was not Tinubu’s creation. “World Bank 63% is not Tinubu’s creation. It is YOUR creation. You were Vice President 1999-2007 when poverty was 54%. You left it at 62%. Tinubu met 63% and is bringing it down,” the group stated, itemizing interventions such as N75,000 money switch to 15 million households by way of NIN, NELFUND for 478,000 college students, CNG buses chopping transport by 40 p.c, minimal wage improve from N30,000 to N70,000, and tripled FAAC for states. On price range extension, the group stated extension of 2024 price range into 2025 is constitutional underneath Section 59, including that Tinubu sought National Assembly approval brazenly and revealed it in the Gazette. ...
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