{"id":128728,"date":"2024-08-23T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh"},"modified":"2024-08-23T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:56:52","slug":"atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh","title":{"rendered":"Atiku architect of Nigeria\u2019s crippled economy \u2014 Ex-Tinubu spokesman Onoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An erstwhile President Bola Tinubu\u2019s spokesman in the Southeast, Josef Onoh, has knocked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his alleged comments aimed at the president.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku had said that President Tinubu has effectively mortgaged Nigeria\u2019s future to himself, family and associates to the extent that even after he leaves office, it would be nearly impossible for the nation to break free from his shackles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as Alpha Beta, Primero and others act as Tinubu\u2019s proxies in Lagos, managing critical sectors and generating revenue for him and his family, he has begun to replicate this at the federal level,\u201d Atiku said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, however, Onoh described Atiku as a salesman who presided over Nigeria\u2019s privatisation programme and made millions of Nigerians jobless.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Atiku\u2019s comments were misleading and aimed at generating resentment for the president and members of his family. He added that Atiku was the forerunner of the current hardship and poverty in Nigeria when he mortgaged Nigeria\u2019s future to companies of his cronies and associates that robbed the country of her assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me take His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the world back in time and history of the atrocities of Atiku and how he crippled a nation that President Tinubu with no single fault of his inherited, a nation sitting on dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not forget Atiku was in charge of the economy and former President Obasanjo gave him free hand until the Galaxy Backbone scandal happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2006, the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi, was acquired by Babalakin\u2019s Resort Ltd., a 15-story prime asset overgrown with weeds, from Atiku and OBJ through a Development Lease Agreement (DLA) for N7.2 billion. A court asked Buhari to pay N54 billion to Babalakin for that blunder,\u201d Onoh stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An erstwhile President Bola Tinubu\u2019s spokesman in the Southeast, Josef Onoh, has knocked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his alleged comments aimed at the president. Atiku had said that President Tinubu has effectively mortgaged Nigeria\u2019s future to himself, family and associates to the extent that even after he leaves office, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":128727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[14524,254,945],"class_list":["post-128728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-josef-onoh","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atiku architect of Nigeria\u2019s crippled economy \u2014 Ex-Tinubu spokesman Onoh - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An erstwhile President Bola Tinubu\u2019s spokesman in the Southeast, Josef Onoh, has knocked former Vice President Atiku Abu ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku architect of Nigeria\u2019s crippled economy \u2014 Ex-Tinubu spokesman Onoh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An erstwhile President Bola Tinubu\u2019s spokesman in the Southeast, Josef Onoh, has knocked former Vice President Atiku Abu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-23T09:54:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-23T10:56:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724397992.263827.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku architect of Nigeria\u2019s crippled economy \u2014 Ex-Tinubu spokesman Onoh\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-23T09:54:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-23T10:56:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724397992.263827.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Josef Onoh\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-architect-of-nigerias-crippled-economy-ex-tinubu-spokesman-onoh\",\"name\":\"Atiku architect of Nigeria\u2019s crippled economy \u2014 Ex-Tinubu spokesman Onoh - 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