Tinubu making merry in Plateau despite people’s pain, suffering – Atiku

The 2023 statesmanlike campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for attending a ceremonial successful Plateau State alternatively of visiting communities devastated by insecurity.

Tinubu was successful Jos connected Saturday for the burial of Mama Lydia Yilwatda, parent of the APC National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda. At the ceremonial service, the president urged residents to clasp peace, unity and tolerance by shunning taste and spiritual differences.

However, successful a station shared connected his authoritative X account, Atiku described the travel arsenic “a bittersweet reflection of priorities and a mockery of leadership.”

The erstwhile Vice President said it was disappointing that the President chose to honour a societal engagement linked to the APC president alternatively than wage condolence visits to families of victims of ongoing unit successful the North Central region.

“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,” Atiku said.

He argued that Tinubu’s prime showed insensitivity and a deficiency of compassion.

“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,” helium added.

Atiku pointed retired that states specified arsenic Benue, Niger, and Kwara had suffered repeated convulsive attacks without immoderate nonstop statesmanlike visit.

He besides recalled that during Tinubu’s travel to Benue successful June, “he ne'er bothered to acceptable ft successful Yelewata, the epicentre of the massacre,” accusing him of avoiding areas worst affected by bloodshed.

“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 feel—a person who finds pleasance wherever the radical find pain,” Atiku said.

He warned that Nigerians were paying attraction to the President’s choices. “The radical are watching, and they volition remember,” Atiku added.

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