Atiku to Tinubu: Blaming Journalists for hardship is like blaming a thermometer for a fever

By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Presidential candidate of the African Drmocratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar has said President Bola Tinubu’s decision to attack the media for reporting insecurity and economic hardship across the country is as absurd as blaming a thermometer for a fever, warning that denial does not change reality but merely postpones solutions.
Atiku, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, on Wednesday, said it was both astonishing and insulting that at a time when millions of Nigerians are struggling to survive, the administration has chosen to attack the messenger rather than confront the message.
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