Rivers: Declaration of state of emergency reeks of political manipulation – Atiku to Tinubu
By Faith AM
Former Nigerian Vice President and the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the last 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, said the declaration of the State of emergency in Rivers State by president Bola Tinubu was reeks of political manipulation and outright bad faith.
He made this known in his official X handle and obtained by FMBlog on Tuesday shortly after Tinubu’s declaration of the state of emergency on Rivers State.
The tweet read. “The declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State reeks of political manipulation and outright bad faith.
“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.
“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 terms. -AA”.
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