Killings: Step Aside Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday advised President Bola Tinubu to step aside if he cannot rein in the rampaging killer herdsmen and kidnappers making life difficult for the people.

Atiku stated this in a statement posted on his X account.

The former vice president was reacting to an increasing wave of kidnappings and killings which on Monday saw two monarchs killed in Ekiti State, and a nursing mother and grandmother killed in Abuja for failing to pay N900 million ransom.

Separately, abductors attacked a village in Kuje in the early hours of Monday killing three and abducting few others according to the President of the Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA), Pastor Danladi Jeji.

This was as some other kidnappers shot at a moving car on Sunday evening and successfully abducted some passengers at Airport Road Abuja and Karmo respectively.

The president travelled to France on a private visit, according to his aide.

Atiku decried the trip while warning that the president “is playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity.”

He added that, “To imagine that the Commander-in-Chief is on a so-called private visit while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90m ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti, among other regular tragedies besetting Nigerians.

“If the shoes are too big for Emilokan, he should step aside.

“Nigeria does not need another Tourist-in-Chief,” a popular refrain that characterised the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Tinubu’s predecessor, who often spent weeks and months on hospital bed and rest abroad.

Atiku emphasised that, ”The country needs 24/7 leadership to confront the pervasive insecurity and collapsing economy.”