Atiku Abubakar is not mincing words. The former Vice-President has come out swinging at President Bola Tinubu, directly linking the president to the economic pain Nigerians are living with every day.
In his criticism, Atiku targeted Tinubu's defence of the petrol subsidy removal, a policy that has sat at the centre of Nigeria's current cost-of-living crisis. Rather than seeing the subsidy's end as a path to relief, Atiku frames Tinubu himself as the very source of the hardship Nigerians are desperate to leave behind.
The "Egypt" reference in his remarks is pointed. It draws on the biblical image of a place of suffering people flee and vow never to return to. For Atiku, that place is not a policy or a moment in history. It is the Tinubu administration itself.
What happens next in this very public back-and-forth between two of Nigeria's most powerful political figures is the question worth watching.
Originally published by AllAfrica.