Paul Ibe, a Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has blamed President Bola Tinubu following the exit of e-hailing company Uber from Nigeria after 12 years of operating in the country.

In a post on X, Ibe dismissed the likelihood that Uber’s decision may be prompted by a review of its business priorities and investment focus. According to him, under the Tinubu-led APC administration, businesses are battling a punishing economic environment marked by inflation, currency instability, high operating costs, declining purchasing power and policy uncertainty.

He wondered why Nigeria is increasingly becoming a business graveyard, a place where businesses choose to leave rather than invest and expand.

“An administration that promised to attract investment cannot continue celebrating economic statistics while companies shut down, scale back or redirect investments elsewhere,” he said.

Atiku’s aide pointed out that Nigeria needs policies that make businesses want to come here, stay here and create jobs—not an economic environment that steadily drives them away.

He said Uber’s exit should therefore be a wake-up call that Tinubu’s economic policies are not yet delivering the investment-friendly Nigeria Nigerians were promised.

“Indeed, Tinubunomics is powered by ‘bole ka ja’ policies,” he said.