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“Stop playing the ethnic card” – Arewa group tackles Kwankwaso for criticising Tinubu’s govt
The Arewa Think Tank (ATT) has slammed Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state, over his recent criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, accusing him of using ethnic sentiment to stir political division ahead of the 2027 elections.
Kwankwaso had alleged that the Tinubu-led government was investing more in southern Nigeria at the expense of the North.
But in a statement issued on Saturday, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, convener of ATT, described the comments as misleading and “a dangerous distraction.”
Yakubu said: “Arewa Think Tank will not support any divisive statement along ethnic, religious and regional lines.
“Why didn’t a person like Kwankwaso speak out during the previous government of infrastructural deficit in the North?
“We want to advise Kwankwaso not to introduce dirty regional politicking into our national discourse because it will do nobody any good.”
He argued that Tinubu,...
Wike is playing politics with Nigerians’ suffering —Atiku’s spokesman
Politics tamfitronics Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe, has hit out at ex-Rivers State Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, alleging that he is playing politics with the suffering Nigerians are going through by making baseless rants and theatrical outbursts driven by personal grievances.Ibe who was reacting to Wike’s remarks that Nigerians have rejected Atiku because he is a serial election loser, said Wike harboured lingering symptom of the bitterness from his defeat to Atiku at the 2022 party presidential primaries.Wike, who spoke on Saturday at a luncheon he organised in honour of the 10th Legislative Assembly of Rivers State, said Nigerians have rejected Atiku having lost successive presidential elections in 2019 and 2023.“We never contested local government elections. Did we contest? Did we pick form?...
Wike playing politics with people’s suffering, says Atiku
Politics tamfitronics Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said he would not be distracted by the theatrics of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, whom he claimed is using the current hardship to play politics at the expense of the masses.The former Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, titled ‘Wike and His T-Pain Collaborators Playing Politics with the Suffering of Nigerians.’Atiku’s statement was in response to Wike’s earlier remarks that...
Ajaero playing dirty politics, At neither of the meetings was an offer made in exchange for the fuel price hike – Presidency tackles NLC President
Politics tamfitronics The Presidency has responded to claims made by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Joe Ajaero, who accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of betraying labour leaders by raising the petrol pump price. Ajaero had alleged in a statement that labour had agreed to a national minimum wage of N70,000 based on an understanding that the Federal Government would not increase the price of petrol. In response, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Print Media, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, via his verified X handle, @Abdulfagge, refuted Ajaero’s claims. He stated that he was present at the last two meetings between President Tinubu and Labour leaders, and at no point was any agreement made regarding the fuel price hike. “I sat through the two meetings President @officialABAT had with Labour leaders on minimum wage. At...
