Former Nigerian Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said the brutal murder of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu, by bandits, is an indictment of the President Bola Tinubu administration.
New Telegraph recalls that the former lawmaker was reportedly abducted by bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on May 3 this year, and died in captivity nine days later, despite desperate efforts by his family to secure his release.
Atiku, in a press statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the former lawmaker’s death is yet another grim reminder of the worsening security under the Tinubu administration.
“Nigeria is under siege,” the former vice president stated, adding that it is either the Tinubu administration is overwhelmed, indifferent, or incompetent in the face of the national security emergency.
He wondered about the hope of an ordinary Nigerian for protection, if a former member of the National Assembly could be abducted on a highway and die in captivity.
“This is no longer about isolated incidents. It is now a horrifying pattern. Nigerians are being kidnapped from highways, farms, communities, even their homes, while the government continues to issue sterile statements and recycled assurances that bear no resemblance to the lived reality of our people,” Atiku stated.
He noted that under Tinubu’s administration, insecurity has evolved from a crisis into a national routine, adding that a government that cannot secure its highways cannot claim to govern.
“A government that watches citizens get hunted like prey has failed the most elementary test of leadership,” the former vice president said, regretting that the Abuja-Kaduna corridor and surrounding routes have remained notorious theatres of terror despite repeated promises, security budgets running into trillions, and endless propaganda about progress by the government.
Atiku demanded to know the security strategy of the Tinubu administration, and reminded the president that no amount of political spin can deodorise his failure to secure the country.
According to him, a nation where former lawmakers die in captivity while criminals operate with audacity is a nation in distress.
He told the president that what Nigerians need is not another condolence message, but decisive leadership, coherent action, and measurable results.
Atiku extended his condolences to the family of the deceased, the people of Jigawa State, and all Nigerians who continue to suffer the devastating consequences of worsening insecurity, while urging the Federal Government to treat the nation’s security collapse as the emergency it truly is.”
