By Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to HE Atiku Abubakar
\nOn Friday December 28, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari began his nationwide campaign rallies with a zonal rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and at that event the President proclaimed that he had \u2018fulfilled (his) promises to Nigeria\u2019.
\nIronically, a day before the President made that statement, it was revealed that the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty had increased from 87 million to 90 million in just 4 months. Going by that sharp rate of increase, the whole country will be in extreme poverty if Nigerians make the mistake of re-electing Buhari.
\nExcept the President made a vow to impoverish Nigerians, it is hard to see how he could have fulfilled his promises with such pervasive poverty and hunger in the land.
\nThis is even as the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed a week to the President\u2019s unfortunate statement that unemployment had doubled from the 14% he met it in May 2015 to 23.1% in December of 2018.
\nBut the most blatant insult from the President was his assertion at Uyo that \u201cWe have defeated Boko Haram\u201d. It was most insensitive of the President to have said such on a day that foreign and domestic media reported the entrapment of our gallant troops by Boko Haram\/ISWAP in Baga, with as much as 700 hundred reported missing.
\nEven more indicting is the statement from the US based\u00a0 International Strategic Studies Association, which revealed that the Boko Haram insurgency was lingering due to the massive corruption around\u00a0 President Muhammadu Buhari. (https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/30\/report-corruption-in-military-responsible-for-faltering-bharam-war\/)
\nHow would those soldiers feel, how would their families feel, how would their colleagues in the barracks feel when they are facing a life and death situation and their commander-in-chief is impervious to reality?
\nFaced with such delusions and obvious denial of reality by President Buhari, it has become expedient to revisit the demand by the Coalition of United Political Parties for all Presidential candidates to submit themselves for a mental health test because clearly someone has badly lost touch with happenings around him.
\nWe declare that Atiku Abubakar is prepared to undergo such test and challenges President Muhammadu Buhari to accept CUPP\u2019s challenge.
\nAnd, for the umpteenth time, we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to come clean on the faceless people behind Keystone Bank and Etisalat. Nigerians deserve to know how people who used to beg for \u20a62000 transport money, as revealed by Buhari\u2019s right hand man, Buba Galadima, are now suddenly wealthy enough to acquire multi billion dollar investments.
\nFinally, we cannot wait for the Presidential Debate where Atiku Abubakar will talk about his plans to reduce the unemployment rate from 23.1% under Buhari to single digits, because Atiku means JOBS and Buhari means extreme poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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