{"id":12001,"date":"2026-11-07T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/hunger-tinubu-tackles-atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-vp\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:00:45","slug":"hunger-tinubu-tackles-atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/hunger-tinubu-tackles-atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger: Tinubu tackles Atiku, asks how he built university as VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Hunger-Tinubu-tackles-Atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-VP.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Atiku and Tinubu\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Hunger-Tinubu-tackles-Atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-VP.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-74-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-74-768x428.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Ayobami Okerinde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Bola Tinubu has hit back at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others criticising his administration over hardship and hunger, accusing them of contributing to the problems he inherited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tinubu spoke on Saturday at the Rainbow Coalition presidential campaign rally held at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to those raising concerns about hunger, Tinubu said his administration was working to address the problems left behind by previous governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose people talking of hunger, I\u2019m cleaning the mess they created. Atiku was one of them,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then questioned how Atiku, who served as vice president and was involved in economic affairs during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was able to establish a university while in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAsk him how he built a university while in office as vice president in charge of our economy. Who built the university for him? It\u2019s your money. It\u2019s your effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further questioned Atiku\u2019s moral standing to criticise his administration, describing him as a man lacking the integrity and ethical standards required for public office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tinubu also expressed appreciation to Rivers residents for the support they gave him during the 2023 presidential election, saying their backing contributed to his emergence as president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for the last election. In 2022, 2023, I looked very hopeless, but you trooped out to support me and gave me the mandate,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m seeking a second term because you believe in me and that I care for you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/hunger-tinubu-tackles-atiku-asks-how-he-built-university-as-vp\/\">Hunger: Tinubu tackles Atiku, asks how he built university as VP<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ayobami Okerinde President Bola Tinubu has hit back at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others criticising his administration over hardship and hunger, accusing them of contributing to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}