Former Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar has stated that the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State reeks of political manipulation and outright bad faith.
Atiku states this in a statement released via his X handle on Tuesday.
In the statement, he noted that anyone paying attention to the unfolding crisis knows that President Bola Tinubu has been a vested partisan actor in the political turmoil engulfing Rivers, adding that Tinubu’s blatant refusal or calculated negligence in preventing this escalation is nothing short of disgraceful.
Atiku added that beyond the political scheming in Rivers, the brazen security breaches that led to the condemnable destruction of national infrastructure in the state land squarely on the President’s desk.
Further, he stated that Tinubu cannot evade responsibility for the chaos his administration has either enabled or failed to prevent.
According to him, it is an unforgivable failure that under Tinubu’s watch, the Niger Delta has been thrown back into an era of violent unrest and instability — undoing the hard-won peace secured by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Atiku added that under Tinubu’s administration, years of progress recorded in the Niger Delta have been recklessly erased in pursuit of selfish political calculations.
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023 posited that if federal infrastructure in Rivers has been compromised, the President bears full responsibility, noting that punishing the people of Rivers State just to serve the political gamesmanship between the governor and @officialABAT’s enablers in the federal government is nothing less than an assault on democracy and must be condemned in the strongest terms.
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