Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu’s main rival during Nigeria’s presidential election last year, has taken a swipe at President Bola Tinubu for his seeming failure to tame the armed groups on rampage across the country.
Nigerians are feeling more unsafe as frequent killings and kidnappings for ransom have continued to be on the rise despite heavy assurances from the authorities to stem the tide.
“Tinubu is playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity,” Abubakar, a one-time Vice President of Nigeria, said in a social media post on X on Tuesday.
Abubakar asked Tinubu to “step aside” if the responsibility of the office was too big for him. “The country needs 24/7 leadership to confront the pervasive insecurity and collapsing economy,” he added.
Tinubu’s spokesman Bayo Onanuga has described Atiku’s utterances as “reckless”, saying he was attacking President Tinubu because he is still “nursing the hangover of his electoral defeat.”
Read Abubakar’s statement: https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1752274687638241675?t=eRql7oe4I8ttXOiPv5Wl1A&s=19
—Ezinwanne Onwuka reports for TruthNigeria from Abuja.
