THE DECADE OF DECEPTION: WHY ATIKU ABUBAKAR IS THE ANTIDOTE TO APC’S TEN-YEAR TRAGEDY Aare Amerijoye DOT.B

Ten years, a full decade of promises recycled like old campaign posters washed by rain, fading, peeling, and forgotten. Ten years of APC rule, and Nigeria, once the giant of Africa, now crawls on trembling knees, its people gasping under the heavy yoke of inflation, insecurity, and disillusionment.

They came in 2015 bearing the olive branch of Change, they returned in 2019 with a shinier deception called Next Level, and now, after ten ruinous years, they dare to whisper Renewed Hope while the nation drowns in despair. If this is hope, then hunger is peace, darkness is light, and chaos is order.

In a small town near Yola, an old farmer named Baba Musa once said something that struck me deeply. He said, “I gave them my vote, my trust, my hope, all three planted like seeds in a dry season. After ten years, not one sprouted.” He laughed, not out of joy, but with the dry bitterness of a man who has seen deceit wear a thousand uniforms. His story is the story of Nigeria itself, ten years of watering barren soil, ten years of trusting a government that cannot even trust its own words.

Let us not pretend otherwise, the APC has spent a decade writing chapters of anguish in the book of our national history. After ten years, the naira has been baptized in humiliation, trading dignity for depreciation. Inflation now eats through salaries like acid through cloth. Youths wander jobless, brilliant minds crushed beneath the rubble of poor governance.

Insecurity has become the national anthem, from the bandits of Zamfara to the kidnappers of Kwara, no one sleeps soundly anymore. Education stands like a building without pillars, teachers underpaid, students idle, and campuses overgrown with weeds of hopelessness. Healthcare is a mirage, our leaders fly abroad for treatment while our hospitals gasp for oxygen. A decade gone, and the only industry that thrives under the APC is suffering.

Atiku Abubakar represents more than a political figure, he is a reawakening, a bridge between our lost potential and our coming restoration. He carries both the scars of service and the vision of a builder. He understands the economy not as a textbook but as a living organism, because he has built businesses, created jobs, and sustained industries.

He knows governance not as a game of slogans but as a system that demands planning, accountability, and courage. When he speaks of restructuring, he speaks not of dismemberment but of efficiency, of returning power to the states, empowering local economies, and allowing each region to breathe its own oxygen. He is the only statesman left with both the national spread and the institutional memory to heal the fractures of our federation. Atiku’s leadership is not a gamble, it is a guarantee of competence.

In 2027, Nigeria will not be voting between parties, it will be voting between pain and progress, darkness and dawn. The APC has ruled for ten years, enough time to build paradise if it ever intended to, but instead, it built a prison of poverty and called it governance. Let Nigerians rise from the ashes of deceit. Let the market women, the artisans, the civil servants, the students, the farmers, the unemployed graduates, all who have tasted the bitterness of this decade, stand up and say: Enough!

Atiku Abubakar deserves the nod in 2027, not out of sentiment but out of sense. Because when a ship has been sinking for ten years, you don’t patch the same hole with the same lies, you change the captain. Nigeria does not need another masquerade of promises, she needs a rebuilder, a restorer of faith, a manager of people and purpose, a democrat who listens before he leads. That is Atiku Abubakar.

Let 2027 be the year Nigerians vote not from fear, not from tribal hypnosis, not from political hunger, but from historical memory. For only those who remember yesterday’s deceit can prevent tomorrow’s disaster. As Baba Musa said while looking at his cracked field, “I may be old, but I can still tell the difference between rain and tears.”

In 2027, Nigerians must also tell the difference between truth and theatre. Vote Atiku Abubakar. Vote competence. Vote rescue. Because another four years of APC will not just break our backs, it will bury our dreams.

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B

Director-General, The Narrative Force