The former southeast campaign spokesman to President Bola Tinubu, Dr Josef Onoh, said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is beckoning on the blood of innocent victims of insecurity crisis to grandstand in the political arena.
Onoh made the allegation while reacting to Atiku’s position on the recent security breaches in Benue state.
Atiku had accused President Tinubu’s administration of ‘disturbing indifference’ to the rising wave of insecurity across the country and called out the president for his continuing stay in Europe amid national trauma.
Onoh, in a swift reaction, said that it was devastating and pathetic for Atiku to play cheap politics while promoting his serial political career failure, using the memory of the blood of innocent Nigeria victims of terrorism.
Onoh chided Atiku that as a former Vice President and a member of the opposition, he was bound to serve his nation in every way and manner that will foster unity, yet he fails in every way to contribute to the solutions nor suggest means of tackling the security challenges facing the country and the world at large, yet he projects himself as a man with the solutions.
Onoh reminded Atiku in 2018, the Group President and Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, in his attempt to deepening national intervention on security donated 150 fully kitted operational vehicles to the Police Force, yet Atiku failed to support the country in any way besides using any negative outcomes to promote himself.
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He stressed that Dangote Cement plc donated 25 operational cars, fully equipped with security features to the Ogun State Security Trust Fund (OSTF) as part of its strategic Corporate Social Responsibility towards maintaining security of lives and property and challenged Atiku to mention one security support he has ever provided to support his “referendum-adopted home state, Adamawa.
“It is said that charity begins at home, as our nation faces various security challenges like many other nations in the world, the Adamawa State Executive Council approved the procurement of 25 brand new pick-up trucks from Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Limited for security agencies in the state while their illustrious son by referendum who is now shouting to high heavens over the security challenges and criticizing the President did nothing to support his adopted home state, neither did companies and schools affiliated to Atiku. This shows the level of hypothetical nature of Atiku,” Onoh blasted.
Onoh noted that while Atiku gave various instances on reactions of different heads of state to disasters and insecurity challenges affecting their various countries and portrayed President Tinubu as a leader without empathy, it’s on record that same President Tinubu in December 2024 cancelled all his official events in Lagos on a Saturday, including his attendance at the 2024 Lagos Boat Regatta in honour of the stampede victims in Abuja and Okija, Anambra State.
“It’s on record that after six days in China, Tinubu left Beijing for London where he met with King Charles III in September and diverted his flight mid-air enroute to the United States back to Nigeria and immediately shelved his proposed visit to the United States, to identify with the people of Maiduguri and environs in Borno State over the then flood disaster, which almost crashed commercial and social activities in the state.
“Finally, let us hope to believe that Atiku has empathy, the difference between his expression of empathy and that of president Tinubu is that Atiku’s arrogance, selfishness and ego blinds his vision of purpose and conflicts with his sense of judgment, direction and execution of emphatic emotions and that’s the major reason you can never rule Nigeria.”