{"id":164817,"date":"2025-05-29T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:42:08","slug":"atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request","title":{"rendered":"Atiku tackles presidency over fresh request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu-led administration over requests for about $24.14 billion foreign loans.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu earlier this week requested the National Assembly\u2019s approval for some foreign loans<\/p>\n<p>The request, however, triggered outrage amongst stakeholders, who lamented that the loan if approved, may balloon Nigeria\u2019s debt to N183 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, in reaction to the development, said on Thursday, in a statement that the announcement by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government to pursue fresh loans \u201cis a reckless and dangerous move that threatens the future of Nigeria and generations yet unborn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atiku, the \u201cmove comes while Nigeria\u2019s debt burden is already at alarming levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of December 31, 2024, public debt stood at $94 billion, \u20a6144.7 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince President Tinubu assumed office in 2023, public debt has jumped by 65.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku lamented that since APC took over power in 2015, \u201cpublic debt has ballooned by 1,048%, from \u20a612.6 trillion to \u20a6144.7tr\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the immediate suspension of further borrowing by the present administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu-led administration over requests for about $24.14 billion foreign loans. President Tinubu earlier this week requested the National Assembly\u2019s approval for some foreign loans The request, however, triggered outrage amongst stakeholders, who lamented that the loan if approved, may balloon Nigeria\u2019s debt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,254,945],"class_list":["post-164817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","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 tackles presidency over fresh request - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu-led administration over requests for about $24.14 ...\" \/>\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-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku tackles presidency over fresh request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu-led administration over requests for about $24.14 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T12:38:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T13:42:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748513573.76754.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku tackles presidency over fresh request\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-29T12:38:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-29T13:42:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748513573.76754.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-tackles-presidency-over-fresh-request\",\"name\":\"Atiku tackles presidency over fresh request - 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