Plateau Funeral: Atiku Accuses Tinubu Of Prioritising Political Visit To Insecure States

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of prioritising the attendance of governmental events successful States suffering information situation alternatively than visiting to commiserate with those affected by insecurity.

Atiku said this portion reacting to Tinubu’s attendance of the burial of Mama Lydia Yilwatda Goshwe, parent of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda.

President Tinubu, Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, and the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, among different apical governmental officeholders, connected Saturday, joined galore dignitaries to wage their past respects to Yilwatda’s parent successful Jos, the Plateau authorities capital.

Yilwatda’s parent died successful August 2025, astatine the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, aged 83.

Reacting, Atiku said the president chose to grace a governmental ceremonial alternatively than basal with the radical successful their darkest hour.

He said, “With ample swathes of the state inactive nether siege from unrelenting insecurity and thousands of guiltless lives lost, it is profoundly unfortunate that President Bola Tinubu has not, for once, recovered it worthy to sojourn immoderate of the affected states to commiserate with the grieving citizens.

“Today, however, the President abruptly remembered Plateau State — 1 of the astir terrorized parts of the North Central — not to stock successful the people’s pain, but to be a societal lawsuit nether the auspices of his party’s nationalist chairman.

“It is simply a bittersweet reflection of priorities and a glaring mockery of enactment that portion families successful Plateau proceed to hide their loved ones, President Tinubu chose to grace a governmental ceremonial alternatively than basal with the radical successful their darkest hour.

“Between the APC National Chairman and his President, what we witnessed contiguous is simply a heartless accumulation of disregard for empathy, compassion, and the dignity of quality life.”

Atiku said from Benue to Niger and astir precocious Kwara, the full North Central portion has endured immoderate of the astir horrific waves of unit successful caller history.

He, however, added that not erstwhile has the APC-led authorities deemed it indispensable to physically basal by the victims oregon console their families.

“Even erstwhile Tinubu made a symbolic sojourn to Benue State successful June, helium ne'er bothered to acceptable ft successful Yelewata — the epicentre of the massacre. Instead, helium ended his travel comfortably successful Makurdi, turning his backmost connected the radical whose tears and humor inactive stain the soil.

“Now again, helium is successful Plateau State, not to console the bereaved oregon reassure the broken, but to observe and marque merry with his enactment elite portion the radical mourn.

“The connection could not beryllium clearer: this is simply a President who would alternatively feast than consciousness – a person who finds pleasance wherever the radical find pain.

“The Nigerian radical are watching — and they volition remember,” he said.