TDFormer Vice President Atiku Abubakar has issued a scathing critique of President Bola Tinubu’s handling of Nigeria’s worsening security crisis.
Atiku condemned the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
He also condemned the brutal killings in Katsina State, including the murder of a pregnant woman.
Atiku made the remarks in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu.
He described the tragedies as further evidence that Nigeria is “bleeding under a government that has reduced leadership to post-tragedy press statements.”
Atiku expressed heartbreak over the killing of one of the abducted teachers in Ogbomoso.
He stressed that the continued bloodshed is not just a security breakdown but “a frightening collapse of leadership at the highest level.”
“At a time when armed criminals are abducting schoolchildren, slaughtering innocent citizens, and turning communities into graveyards, President Tinubu’s response remains the same tired ritual: condemn the killings, threaten that the perpetrators will face the ‘full wrath of the law,’ and then wait for the next massacre,” Atiku said.
He argued that Nigerians have grown weary of repetitive condemnations and empty threats.
He insisted that “a President who only finds his voice after blood has been spilled is not leading but presiding over failure.”
Atiku further alleged that there are attempts to suppress documentation of these atrocities.
He warned that “a government more interested in censoring evidence of mass killings than in preventing them is guilty of cruelty of the highest order.”
He declared that “no serious government hides the blood of its citizens to protect political optics”.
The former vice president added that a government that cannot protect the living but seeks to conceal evidence of their deaths has “lost every moral right to govern.”
Calling the situation a national disgrace, Atiku demanded:
- The immediate rescue of all abducted victims in Oyo State
- Urgent and decisive security action across vulnerable communities
- A comprehensive overhaul of Nigeria’s failing security architecture
Atiku concluded that Nigerians deserve more than “performative outrage and ceremonial condolences”.
He urged the government to act before tragedy strikes rather than merely reacting afterward.
