Tinubu clearing mess your government created, Keyamo tells Atiku – Daily Trust

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has criticised former Vice-President and Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Atiku Abubakar over his feedback on the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

Keyamo was reacting to the submit by Atiku on his verified X account the place he accused Tinubu of constructing lives costly for Nigerians.

Keyamo recalled the liquidation of the Nigeria Airways and the way the pensioners had been left with out pay, saying the Tinubu administration was now addressing the excellent pension and gratuity liabilities owed to former staff of the defunct nationwide provider, 22 years after the airline was liquidated.

Keyamo mentioned, “Your Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, that is hypocrisy at its peak! Let me simply discuss solely in regards to the sector that I head, Aviation.

“In September, 2004, when you were Vice-President, your Government woke up one morning and liquidated Nigeria Airways, throwing thousands of Nigerians out of jobs and into sorrow and pain,” the minister mentioned.

He alleged that the previous staff had been subsequently left with out their pensions and gratuities, which he mentioned amounted to billions of naira.

“To add salt into their wounds, you refused to pay them their pensions and gratuities, running into billions of Naira,” Keyamo mentioned.

The minister mentioned the results of the airline’s liquidation had endured for greater than twenty years, with lots of the affected staff dying earlier than receiving their entitlements.

He disclosed that Tinubu not too long ago permitted the discharge of N36bn to settle the excellent liabilities and supply aid to the affected households.

“Twenty-two years later, after a lot of them have died out of frustration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now clearing the mess you left behind.

“In fact, the President was given an Award for this by the workers’ union a few weeks ago,” he added.

The minister accused Atiku of criticising the present administration with out adequately accounting for the file of the government during which he served.

“Yet you sit down there and pontificate?” Keyamo requested, including that youthful Nigerians who may not be acquainted with the historical past of the airline’s liquidation wanted to know what transpired.

“It’s only the younger ones who don’t know your history you can attempt to hoodwink, but we will expose you to them,” he mentioned.

Keyamo additional accused the previous vice-president of taking totally different positions on the Obasanjo administration relying on the political circumstances.

“When it is convenient for you, you claim some credit of the Obasanjo-Atiku government and when not convenient, you say Obasanjo was in charge and not you as Vice-President,” the minister mentioned.

He described the alleged inconsistency as “the proper posturing of a con artist” and accused Atiku of disguising his political ambition with what he known as “a cloud of rhetorical gibberish.”