Former vice president and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku abubarkar, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government is now filled with multiple scandals following the controversies surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.
Atiku disclosed made the assertion in a statement on Sunda by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu.
He stressed that Tinubu’s government witnessed too many ‘scandals’ to be regarded as isolated cases.
According to him, Tinubu has become part of the alleged scandals rocking his government.
“Nigeria has sadly arrived at that point. The issue is no longer one scandal or another. The issue is the pattern. And when scandals become a pattern of governance, the inevitable conclusion is this: you are no longer managing scandals; you have become the scandal itself.”
He noted PFIPC is not merely another embarrassment for the government but the latest chapter in an ever-expanding book of scandals that have come to define the Tinubu administration, a government in which controversy erupts with unsettling regularity, investigations are announced with fanfare, and the truth too often disappears into official silence.
Atiku said the PFIPC affair did not emerge in a vacuum but belongs to a troubling sequence of controversies that have cast long shadows over the present administration.
“From unresolved questions surrounding the Humanitarian Affairs scandal to allegations of crude oil theft and illegal tanker releases that faded without publicly released investigative reports; from concerns raised over alleged discrepancies in the 2024 budget and the absence of a comprehensive forensic explanation; to the billions reportedly expended on refinery rehabilitation while public refineries remain largely dysfunctional; from procurement controversies involving major infrastructure projects to recurring concerns over opaque contract awards, missing procurement records and appointments of persons linked to unresolved allegations, Nigerians have watched a familiar and deeply troubling pattern unfold.
“The pattern itself has become the scandal.
‘The scandal is no longer around the government. The government itself becomes the scandal.’
“And to President Tinubu, Nigerians are increasingly asking a simple but profound question: if every road of controversy leads back to your doorstep, then who, indeed, is the scandal?” he stated.