“I laid ABTI’s foundation in 1993 while you forfeited $460,000 in the US”: Atiku replies to Tinubu

African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar responded to President Bola Tinubu’s criticism of his investment in education. Atiku says he laid the foundation for ABTI Academy in 1993, before entering public service, and recalls that a US court ordered the forfeiture of funds linked to Tinubu that year. He accused the president of trying to distract Nigerians from his administration’s failures and condemned poverty, debt, insecurity and unemployment, claiming more than 79 million Nigerians have been pushed into extreme poverty.