“The darkness that has enveloped the nation in the last couple of days with the collapse of the national grid is a metaphor for the collapsing state of our nation,” says Atiku.
By Emma Ogbuehi
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 2023 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has urged Nigerians to ‘collapse’ the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a comeuppance for the collapsing value of human life and dignity under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Atiku, who was lamenting the collapse, once again of the national grid and subsequent plunging of Nigerians into darkness, took to his verified twitter handle @atiku to urge Nigerians to pay back the government in its own coins for orchestrating the collapse of the Nigerian state.
“The darkness that has enveloped the nation in the last couple of days with the collapse of the national grid is a metaphor for the collapsing state of our nation: collapsing unity, collapsing security, collapsing economy, collapsing education, collapsing well-being and collapsing value of human life and dignity,” the former Vice President tweeted.
“My expectation is that Nigerians will collapse the ruling APC in kind via the ballot and enthrone a viable pathway for the New Nigeria of our dreams that will be united and stable, prosperous and awash with opportunities; secured and inclusive. As One, we can get it done. –AA”
Nigeria has once again been plunged into darkness as a result of the collapse of the national grid.
This will be the fifth time the grid is collapsing in recent times.
Just like its predecessors including the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo where Atiku was the Vice President that wasted over $16 billion and supplied darkness to Nigerians, the Buhari government that boasted it would solve the power conundrum in six months has wasted trillions of naira with nothing to show for it.
Electricity supply still remains woeful with the government showing no clue on how to handle the matter, less than one year to the end of the administration of Buhari.