YEYE ECONOMICS, TINUBU BROKE THE LEG, NOW HE WANTS APPLAUSE FOR THE CRUTCHES: ATIKU KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WALKING AND HEALING

Phrank Shaibu

You cannot break a man’s leg, hand him crutches three years later and demand applause because he can now move around. 😂

That is essentially Tinubu’s CNG victory lap.

Yes, CNG can make a converted bus cheaper to run. But the driver still buys expensive tyres, spare parts and food — and the passenger’s empty pocket has no conversion kit.

After the subsidy-removal shock travelled from the filling station to the motor park, the farm, the market and finally the Nigerian kitchen, 120,000 converted vehicles cannot be presented as salvation for over 200 million people.

The problem is no longer simply what powers the bus.

It is whether Nigerians can afford to board it.

@atiku understands the difference: Nigeria needs a broader attack on the cost of living — cheaper energy, domestic production, lower logistics costs and measurable relief across the economic chain.

The crutches may help the man walk. They do not mean his leg was never broken.

YeyeEconomics

–Phrank Shaibu
Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar

Aare Amerijoye Donald Olalekan Temitope Bowofade (DOT.B) is a Nigerian political strategist, public intellectual, and writer. He serves as the Director-General of The Narrative Force (TNF), a strategic communication and political-education organisation committed to shaping ideas, narratives, and democratic consciousness in Nigeria. An indigene of Ekiti State, he was born in Osogbo, then Oyo State, now Osun State, and currently resides in Ekiti State. His political and civic engagement spans several decades. In the 1990s, he was actively involved in Nigeria’s human-rights and pro-democracy struggles, participating in organisations such as Human Rights Africa and the Nigerianity Movement among many others, where he worked under the leadership of Dr. Tunji Abayomi during the nation’s fight for democratic restoration. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as Assistant Organising Secretary of Ekiti Progressives and the Femi Falana Front, under Barrister Femi Falana (SAN), playing a key role in grassroots mobilisation, civic education, and progressive political advocacy. He has since served in government and party politics in various capacities, including Senior Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Political Matters and Inter-Party Relations, Secretary to the Local Government, and Special Assistant on Youth Mobilisation and Strategy. At the national level, he has been a member of various nationally constituted party and electoral committees, including the PDP Presidential Campaign Council Security Committee (2022) and the Ondo State 2024 election committee. Currently, he is a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and serves as Secretary of the Ekiti State ADC Strategic Committee, where he plays a central role in party structuring, strategy, and grassroots coordination. Aare Amerijoye writes extensively on governance, leadership ethics, party politics, and national renewal. His essays and commentaries have been published in Nigerian Tribune, Punch, The Guardian, THISDAY, TheCable, and leading digital platforms. His work blends philosophical depth with strategic clarity, advancing principled politics anchored on truth, justice, and moral courage.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent News

Trending News

Editor's Picks

THE PRIVATISATION LIE: A REPLY TO THE CONGENITAL PROPAGANDISTS, THE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS AND THE UNREASONABLE HATERS OF TRUTH

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B There is a species of Nigerian commentator who has made a career out of one sentence. Atiku sold Nigeria. That is the whole library. That is the entire scholarship. Strip away the adjectives, the borrowed indignation and the manufactured grief, and what remains is a single recycled sentence carried from column to...

THE PTDF INVESTIGATION: WHAT THE RECORD ACTUALLY ESTABLISHED ABOUT ATIKU ABUBAKAR.

Dr Alex Adum Ter There is a persistent attempt recently to present the 2006 Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) affair as though the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), under Nuhu Ribadu, established the criminal guilt of then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, GCON and that the subsequent administrative panel merely confirmed that guilt. That is not...

Must Read

©2026. The Narrative Force. All Rights Reserved