{"id":246692,"date":"2026-10-09T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-election-package-atiku-taunts-tinubu-over-30-day-fuel-discount\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:30:26","slug":"nigeria-election-package-atiku-taunts-tinubu-over-30-day-fuel-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-election-package-atiku-taunts-tinubu-over-30-day-fuel-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;Election Package&#8217;, Atiku Taunts Tinubu Over 30-Day Fuel Discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the Federal Government&#8217;s proposed 30-day fuel discount at NNPC stations, describing it as a desperate, temporary gesture that cannot repair the damage caused by the crushing cost of fuel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a statement issued by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, Atiku said the Tinubu administration&#8217;s attempt to dangle a fuel subsidy as bait for Nigerians was reckless, disgraceful and scandalous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the Federal Government&#8217;s proposed 30-day fuel discount at NNPC stations, describing it as a desperate, temporary gesture that cannot repair the damage caused by the crushing cost of fuel. In a statement issued by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, Atiku said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[37958,258,256,9899,19742,3119,7570,257,4687,393,7133,254,13543,8308],"class_list":["post-246692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-30day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atiku","tag-discount","tag-election","tag-fuel","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-package","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taunts","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}