{"id":178153,"date":"2025-09-10T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-criticizes-speaker-abbas-for-debt-profile-remarks"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:05:44","slug":"adc-criticizes-speaker-abbas-for-debt-profile-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-criticizes-speaker-abbas-for-debt-profile-remarks","title":{"rendered":"ADC Criticizes Speaker Abbas for Debt Profile Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has lambasted the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, for withdrawing his earlier remarks on the country\u2019s rising debt profile.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement by the party\u2019s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi had accused the National Assembly of complicity in Nigeria\u2019s growing debt crisis under President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker raised the alarm that Nigeria\u2019s rising debt profile has exceeded the country\u2019s legal threshold and now posed a major threat to fiscal sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker thereafter withdrew the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the ADC said Abbas\u2019s initial admission that the country\u2019s debt-to-gross domestic product, GDP, ratio had crossed statutory limits and now stands at 52 percent was a rare moment of honesty.<\/p>\n<p>However, it lamented that the withdrawal of his remarks showed political cowardice and legislative complicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike a flame in the wind, the Speaker\u2019s statement offered a momentary flicker of the truth, only to be quickly doused by political expediency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than standing by his remarks and on the side of the people, he chose to play safe and be politically correct,\u201d the statement read.<\/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. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has lambasted the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, for withdrawing his earlier remarks on the country\u2019s rising debt profile. This was contained in a statement by the party\u2019s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Tuesday. Abdullahi had accused the National Assembly of complicity in Nigeria\u2019s growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,254,11145],"class_list":["post-178153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-nigeria","tag-tajudeen-abbas"],"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>ADC Criticizes Speaker Abbas for Debt Profile Remarks - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/uncategorized\/adc-criticizes-speaker-abbas-for-debt-profile-remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADC Criticizes Speaker Abbas for Debt Profile Remarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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