Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2027 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has done what the Tinubu administration refuses to do: listen to the suffering of ordinary Nigerians. Atiku's vow to restore the fuel subsidy recklessly scrapped by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023, is the first real hope millions have seen since this government plunged the country into manufactured hardship.

Even the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria could no longer stay silent. Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, revealed that when they told Tinubu to his face that the economy was crushing the poor, the President "did not agree with us." That dismissal sums up ...