‘Who Stole 2% of Nigeria’s GDP?’ Atiku Asks Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has challenged President Bola Tinubu’s administration to account for what he described as the “missing two per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP),” following a recent disclosure by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that public expenditure equivalent to that amount was omitted from the country’s budget.
Atiku, in a statement issued on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the IMF’s revelation, coupled with the controversy surrounding the alleged Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), points to what he called a disturbin...