A former vice president Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has accused President Bola Tinubu of using his power to intimidate, harass and dismantle the members of the opposition parties.
Atiku, who used the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to run for the presidency in 2023, said that the All Progressives Congress is also working to crush the opposition in the country.
He made reference to the arrest and prosecution of Omoyele Sowore, another presidential hopeful. Sowore is at the court for reportedly insulting and calling the Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun as “illegal”.
Atiku wrote on his Facebook page, “When I made the clarion call that Tinubu and the APC were devoting their energies to the systematic harassment, intimidation, and dismantling of the opposition, all in service of their grand design for a one-party autocracy, I became the target of vicious attacks. The arrest and baseless prosecution of Sowore is the latest chapter in this unrelenting campaign. Now, they have seen fit to add Professor Usman Yusuf — an outspoken critic of this administration — into their grim roster. At the pace they are going, it seems they may soon find themselves contending with the incarceration of every one of us.”
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