Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu for his visit to Plateau State on Saturday.
Tinubu was in Jos, the state capital, for the burial of Lydia Yilwatda, the mother of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nantawe Yilwatda.
In a post on his X handle, Atiku expressed disappointment that President Tinubu overlooked victims of insecurity in the affected regions, opting instead to attend what he termed a “political funeral.”
“With large swathes of the country still under siege from unrelenting insecurity and thousands of innocent lives lost, it is deeply unfortunate that President Bola Tinubu has not, for once, found it worthy to visit any of the affected states to commiserate with the grieving citizens,” Atiku said.
“Today, however, the President suddenly remembered Plateau State, one of the most terrorized parts of the North Central, not to share in the people’s pain, but to attend a social event under the auspices of his party’s national chairman.”