Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken President Bola Tinubu to activity over the safety scenario of the nation, particularly the recurring kidnappings throughout the nation.
Atiku, who contested Tinubu through the 2023 presidential election, requested the President to step apart if he couldn’t deal with the rising insecurity within the nation.
The previous vp mentioned that regardless of rising insecurity, the president may muster the braveness to depart the nation and make a personal go to to France.
Atiku mentioned the nation doesn’t want one other “vacationer in chief”.
Tinubu had left Abuja for Paris, France, on a personal go to final Wednesday.
His Particular Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in an announcement titled “President Tinubu travels to France.”
Whereas the assertion didn’t point out the explanations for the go to, Ngelale mentioned: “He’ll return to the nation within the first week of February 2024.”
The go to was the president's third to France since he took workplace eight months in the past.
The Folks's Democratic Celebration and the Labor Celebration and Labor Celebration had additionally sought a proof for what the presidency described as a personal go to.
The PDP Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, acknowledged that insecurity and the state of the nation's economic system made it the worst time for Tinubu to embark on a overseas journey.
This was when LP 2023 Presidential Marketing campaign Council spokesperson Yunusa Tanko claimed there was a hidden agenda for the journey and mentioned the president was in poor health.
However reacting to the go to and the various kidnappings in Nigeria, Atiku mentioned the nation wants an energetic chief to sort out insecurity.
“Tinubu is taking part in the violin whereas Nigeria is drowning within the ocean of uncertainty. To think about the Commander-in-Chief having a so-called personal go to whereas kidnappers kill a nursing mom and grandmother in Abuja for failure to pay the N90 million ransom, and two monarchs in Ekiti, amongst different tragedies that often plague Nigerians.
'If the footwear are too large for Emilokan, he ought to step apart. Nigeria doesn’t want one other vacationer. The nation wants 24/7 management to sort out widespread uncertainty and the collapsing economic system,” Atiku mentioned in a publish on his X account on Tuesday.
The PUNCH studies that daring kidnappers have continued to unleash terror on residents in numerous elements of the nation, regardless of the safety preparations put in place to sort out the difficulty of kidnap for ransom, which in latest instances has assumed the extent of economic transactions.
For instance, three riot police inspectors have been kidnapped final Friday night at Ohoror group, off East-West Street, Ughelli North Native Authorities Space of Delta State, whereas gunmen on Saturday kidnapped the Oyo State Chairman of the Tipper, Lorry. and Quarry Park Administration System, Alhaji Akeem Akintola.
Equally, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Abia State College, Uturu, Prof. Godwin Emezue, was on Saturday kidnapped from a petroleum station in Umuekwule, Amachara, a group in Umuahia South Native Authorities Space of the state.
Additionally, gunmen suspected to be kidnappers killed two monarchs of Ekiti State on Ipao-Oke Ako Street on Monday.
This was as civil society teams, below the auspices of the Civil Society Joint Motion Group, mentioned 17,469 Nigerians have been kidnapped between 2019 and now below the Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu administrations.
