Insecurity, Tinubu Has Failed on Security, Resign Now – Atiku, Atiku Blasts Tinubu, Demands Resignation

Atiku Abubakar, the 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has asked President Bola Tinubu to resign his position as the leader of Nigeria.

Atiku in a statement on Thursday, linked the insecurity challenges bedevilling the country to the leadership failure of the Tinubu administration.

He said President Tinubu has failed in the duty of protecting the citizens of the country.

The ADC Presidential candidate has expressed deep concern about the worsening insecurity in the country, noting that it posed a direct threat to the country’s education system and made a mockery of the so-called Safe Schools initiative.

Atiku said it was embarrassing that terrorists threaten citizens with such regularity and with complete impunity, and that the government does not respond appropriately.

The former Vice President was said to have spoken against the backdrops of the recent happenings where not less than 42 school children were abducted on May 15 in terrorist raids on the Government Day Secondary School, Mussa Central Primary School and the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Secondary School in Mussa town, Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

Similarly, over 40 students and teachers were abducted from Community High School, Ahoro-Esiele; Primary School, Esiele; and Yawota Baptist Nursery and Primary School, all in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo state.

The terrorists then beheaded a teacher in a gruesome manner, while the victims remain hostages.

Despite the prevailing challenges, Atiku said the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration was still making empty promises.

He therefore urged the federal government to fast track the safe release of school children abducted in Oyo and Borno states.

Atiku, however, acknowledged that the primary duty of any government is the security and welfare of the governed, and urged Tinubu to resign from office in the interest of Nigerians.

“The president, Tinubu, has no moral or political latitude to remain in Aso Villa a day longer when tens of hundreds of abducted citizens languish in captivity across the country.

“Which government will open up its national territory to non-state actors to turn it into killing fields and a safe haven for kidnapping and extortion?” the Waziri of Adamawa asked.

Atiku said security should not be a political slogan and that citizens will only be impressed by prompt and effective response to security challenges.

He added that letting terrorist abductions drag on creates incentives for future attacks on schools by criminal elements.

“Impunity emboldens the terrorists, makes them more determined to mount future attacks. “The citizens look up to the government for urgent and prompt interventions to banditry and terrorist attacks,” Atiku said, adding that “the government must project confidence in the minds of the citizens that it is capable of protecting them at all times,” he said.

Official condemnations of terrorist abductions are not enough, the ex-Vice President pointed out, if they are not followed up with prompt rescue action.

He also called for the speedy dispensation of justice in the trial of arrested terrorists, lamenting the delay in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, where terrorism trials drag endlessly.

“We need special courts to fast track the trial of terrorists and bandits in the country and we need it urgently. In addition, the country must issue the death penalty for terrorism offences. But death penalty itself will not be effective if the government does not have the political will to sign death warrants for convicted terrorists promptly,” he said.