Politics
Disgraceful! Atiku Slams Tinubu On Rivers Emergency Rule
By Imman Onyero
Atiku Abubakar has bemoaned the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State putting blame on the situation in the state on the doorstep of President Bola Tinubu.
Atiku, took to X to react to the development shortly after the president suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly in a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
However, in his reaction, Atiku described the president’s action as disgraceful having according to him not having intervened earlier.
“Anyone paying attention to the unfolding crisis knows that Bola Tinubu has been a vested partisan actor in the political turmoil engulfing Rivers.
“His blatant refusal or calculated negligence in preventing this escalation is nothing short of disgraceful.
“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.
“Tinubu cannot evade responsibility for the chaos his administration has either enabled or failed to prevent,” Atiku said.
Continuing, the former Vice President said it is a failure on the part of the president that the Niger Delta region has been thrown back into era of unrest, adding that the president should bear responsibility for the bombing of pipeline infrastructure in the region.
“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. Years of progress have been recklessly erased in pursuit of selfish political calculations.
“If federal infrastructure in Rivers has been compromised, the President bears full responsibility. 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,” Atiku stated in slamming the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State.
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