Atiku Blast Tinubu over Plateau Killing
President Bola Tinubu has come under attack by former Vice President and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over the attack in Zike community, Kwali district of Bassa Local Government Area in Plateau state, describing it as “the worsening state of security in our country.”
Atiku blasted the President who is currently out of the country on a working visit to Paris noting that his administration is incompetent and fails to protect lives of it’s citizens.
He said, “I am deeply saddened and alarmed by the resurgence of violent attacks in Plateau State,” Atiku wrote. “It is regrettable and entirely unacceptable that these Nigerians had to lose their lives as a result of the incompetence of the Tinubu-led administration. The protection of lives and property is the primary responsibility of any government. Unfortunately, President Tinubu has failed these citizens and continues to fail them.”
There has been great concerns over rising security challenges across the country especially in the north which has experienced series of attacks and several calls has been made to the President to bridge the gap in security challenges.
Adding his voice, the former vice president also sited the terrorist attack in Borno State noting that, “These disturbing developments underscore the total collapse of the current administration’s security policy and architecture.”
“If the same level of urgency and energy were devoted to the prosecution of terrorists as we have seen applied to the trials of political critics, we would have sent a clear and forceful message that crime has consequences,” he stated.
“The people cannot continue to pay the price for government failures. Condemnation after the fact is not enough. What is needed are proactive, preventive actions,”Atiku stated
It would be recalled that there was an attack on Zike hamlet in Kimakpa community at Kwall district, Irigwe Chiefdom on Sunday night which claimed over 50 lives. Series of killings has been on and recently, the Nigerian army had rescued 16 persons that was kidnapped in the state.
Earlier in condoling with the State on the ugly happenings, President Bola Tinubu has ordered security agencies to hunt down the culprit, describing the latest wave of assault on the North-Central state as devastating.
” I have instructed security agencies to thoroughly investigate this crisis and identify those responsible for orchestrating these violent acts,” the president said in a statement by his spokesman Bayo Onanuga. “We cannot allow this devastation and the tit-for-tat attacks to continue. Enough is enough.”