Atiku’s camp fires back at Fayemi over subsidy, Muslim-Muslim ticket remark

The campy of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has deed backmost astatine erstwhile Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, implicit his dismissal of Atiku’s committedness to instrumentality substance subsidy if elected president successful 2027.

In a connection on Tuesday, Atiku’s media aide, Paul Ibe, described Fayemi’s effort to liken Atiku’s substance subsidy connection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muslim-Muslim statesmanlike summons successful the 2023 predetermination arsenic a flawed statement that avoids the substance of the economical debate.

Recall that Fayemi, portion speaking connected Arise Television’s Prime Time on Monday, described Atiku’s subsidy proposal arsenic a governmental strategy alternatively than an economical policy.

“My instrumentality connected that is that Atiku’s connection of subsidy is politically equivalent to our ain Muslim-Muslim summons successful 2023. It’s a governmental strategy. It’s not an economical construct,” Fayemi said.

Reacting, Atiku’s campy rejected the comparison, stressing that the captious contented was not whether Atiku’s connection had governmental implications but whether the argumentation was economically viable.

According to Ibe, Atiku was not advocating a instrumentality to the erstwhile subsidy regime, which helium said was characterised by opacity, questionable import claim...