Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu in a strong Independence Day message, lamenting that millions of Nigerians have been “reduced to refugees and beggars in their fatherland.”
According to the statement released by his media office, Atiku described Nigeria’s 65th anniversary under the current government as *“tragic,”* pointing to a combination of raging insecurity, food scarcity, mass unemployment and a growing climate of hopelessness as evidence of leadership failure.
“It is tragic that in a country blessed with immense human and material resources, millions of our people have been reduced to refugees and beggars in their fatherland,” Atiku said.
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He also pressed that the responsibility of governance lies in the welfare and security of citizens, which he claimed the present administration has neglected: “Every responsible government holds the welfare and security of its citizens as supreme. But what we have today is an administration that has abandoned its people. Hunger is killing Nigerians, bandits are massacring communities, yet President Tinubu and his cabinet stand by, unmoved and uncaring.”
In closing his message, Atiku called on Nigerians not to lose hope, saying that the 2027 elections offer a chance to reject “bad leadership” and reclaim the promise of a better Nigeria.
