Atiku, El-rufai, Amaechi are power-hungry losers – APC

Atiku, El-rufai, Amaechi are power-hungry losers – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a scathing attack on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi, describing them as “failed politicians” driven by desperation to reclaim power for personal gain.

In a fiery statement released Monday, APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka defended President Bola Tinubu’s administration, arguing that its economic reforms are ushering in an “unprecedented transformation”, while dismissing recent criticism by the trio as “hypocritical and self-serving”.

The party said, “In all 24 years, the trio, individually or collectively, could not and did not eradicate poverty in their states or the country.

“They did not even attempt to address, let alone tackle, the structural challenges and distortions that stifled the economy and worsened poverty over the years.”

However, Atiku was a founding member of the APC and defected to the PDP to contest the 2019 election. He has also contested the 2023 presidential election and hopes to have a go again in 2027 in an unprecedented manner.

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While el-Rufai has officially defected from the APC to the Social Democratic Party in 2025 and is a leading member of the upcoming coalition, Amaechi is still a member of the APC.

It’s not clear why the APC categorised them as failures, as Amaechi and other leading members of the coalition are still in the APC.

The party’s reaction stemmed from a wave of public criticism unleashed on the Tinubu administration by Atiku, Amaechi, and El-Rufai over the weekend, where they accused the president of exacerbating poverty in Nigeria and using economic hardship as a political strategy based on the poverty index, which has risen sharply since the president took office in 2023.

The critics claimed that Tinubu’s reforms disproportionately benefit elites while deepening suffering among ordinary Nigerians.

However, the APC has swiftly hit back, accusing the former leaders of hypocrisy, noting their long tenure in power without corresponding results, although the majority of them served in the APC and are still APC members.

“Rather, they revelled in mindless rent-seeking behaviour, sold national assets to their cronies for a mere pittance, engaged in corrupt and wasteful expenditures in their states, and relentlessly sponsored state violence against their own people,” Morka said.

Atiku, El-rufai, Amaechi are power-hungry losers – APC