Former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar has advised President Bola Tinubu to “step aside” if he cannot handle the insecurity ravaging the country.
“If the shoes are too big for Emilokan, he should step aside. Nigeria does not need another Tourist-in-Chief,” Atiku said on his X handle on Tuesday.
He wondered why the president would embark on a private visit to France while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity.
“Tinubu is playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity.
“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 N90 million ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti, among other regular tragedies besetting Nigerians,” he said.
According to Atiku, the country needs daily leadership to confront the pervasive insecurity and collapsing economy.
President Tinubu on Wednesday departed Abuja for Paris, France on a private visit.
On Monday, Daniel Bwala, ex-spokesperson for the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 polls and former Vice President, met again with Tinubu in France, further fuelling speculations of his imminent return to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Political pundits are quick to say Bwala’s visit might have angered Atiku, making him to call for Tinubu’s resignation.
Last December, Tinubu travelled to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Apart from participating in the conference in Dubai, the President had bilateral talks with King Charles of England, the President of UAE, and leaders of several countries and multilateral partners to concretize engagements.
Tinubu also witnessed the signing of an accelerated performance agreement between Nigeria and Germany to improve Nigeria’s electricity supply and hosted a high-level meeting with stakeholders and investors on the Nigeria Carbon Market and the Electric Buses Rollout Programme on the margins of the COP28 climate summit.
