ATIKU NEEDS MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT - KEYAMO FIRES BACK AT EX-VP OVER TINUBU ATTACKS
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has taken a swipe at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, suggesting that his repeated criticisms of President Bola Tinubu are driven by frustration over his failure to win the 2023 presidential election. In a statement issued on Friday night, Keyamo argued that Atiku had yet to come to terms with losing the presidential contest, claiming that the outcome had left the opposition politician bitter about Tinubu’s political success. “It is now very obvious that Atiku Abubakar is a pained and very bitter fellow,” Keyamo stated, adding that the former vice president believed Tinubu had outsmarted him in the race for Nigeria’s highest political office. The minister noted that both men had followed different political paths for decades, recalling a period when Atiku, as vice president, appeared to occupy a higher position in the political hierarchy than Tinubu, who was then governor of Lagos State. According to Keyamo...