ATIKU ABUBAKAR: NIGERIA’S VERITABLE ASSET
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
When Atiku Abubakar speaks, he does not merely address Nigeria. He dissects her. He lays bare the wounds, names the disease, and prescribes the cure with the surgical calm of a man who has stood at this operating table before and knows precisely where the rot festers. Each address is a moveable feast of intellect, a cerebral exposition delivered with magisterial command, and great minds, whatever their politics, will not pretend otherwise.
I have read his policy document five times, back to back, and I track him through every outing with the attention such a man compels. I engage with him regularly, and together we interrogate the issues to the bone. The verdict is unambiguous. Here is clarity where others peddle noise. Here is mastery where others peddle slogans. Here is a leader imbued with honesty, wisdom, political will, intelligence, decisiveness, self confidence, strength and bravery, while the rest scramble for talking points they cannot defend the moment they are questioned.
A RECORD THAT CANNOT BE WISHED AWAY
Let the pretenders answer one question. When last did this economy grow under competent hands? Nigeria already knows the answer, and the answer terrifies them.
Under the Obasanjo administration, with Atiku Abubakar as Vice President and chairman of the National Economic Council, Nigeria’s economy rose from fifty eight billion dollars in nineteen ninety nine to two hundred and seventy billion dollars by two thousand and seven. That is not rhetoric. That is the ledger. That is the difference between a man who has actually rebuilt an economy and the parade of extemporaneous amateurs now crawling out of the woodwork to lecture us on prosperity they have never once produced.
They speak of reform. He has delivered it. They promise growth. He has banked it.
THE ARCHITECT OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
Atiku Abubakar did not learn economics from a podium. He built businesses. He created jobs. He understands, as only a successful industrialist and entrepreneur can, that an economy is not grown by government fiat but by unleashing the private sector and ensuring that entrusted resources are used efficiently for the greatest benefit of the greatest number.
This is the man who knows that you do not feed a nation by strangling its enterprise. You free it. You direct it. You let it breathe.
EVERY NIGERIAN AS THE UNIT OF DEVELOPMENT
Here is where Atiku separates himself from the small men of our politics. He refuses to reduce Nigeria to a National Cake to be shared along the tired fault lines of tribe, religion and party. He insists on a single, revolutionary measure of progress, and that measure is the individual Nigerian.
Not the Nigerian of a particular party. Not the Nigerian of a favoured tribe. Not the Nigerian of an approved faith. Every Nigerian. He intends to engage the country at every level, government, the business community, professional bodies, the youth, women, the marginalised and the consumer, and to convert our resources into productivity, employment, a better quality of life, and the deliberate dismantling of poverty.
THE INDICTMENT OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS
And against this towering competence, what has the All Progressives Congress offered? Hunger weaponised into policy. Hardship dressed up as sacrifice. A people ground down to the marrow while their rulers travel, posture and preach patience to the starving.
Nigerians are not suffering from a shortage of resources. They are suffering from a shortage of competence at the top, and the cure for incompetence is not another season of it. The cure is Atiku Abubakar.
THE HOUR HAS COME
His emergence at this moment is not an accident of politics. It is the convergence of the man and the need. The country is on its knees, and here stands the one man with the proven hand to lift her by the scruff of the neck and drag her into the promising years she was always meant to inhabit.
Nigerians must seize this moment. The Narrative Force calls on every patriot, in every state, of every tongue and creed, to rally now behind the African Democratic Congress and behind the candidate Nigeria cannot afford to lose.
Atiku Abubakar is not a gamble. He is the closest thing this Republic has to a guarantee.
Let us support Atiku now.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director General,
The Narrative Force
thenarrativeforce.org
3 June 2026
