By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu of using repressive ways to stifle opposition voices forward of the 2027 elections.
Atiku expressed concern over what he described as “a calculated assault” on opposition leaders and dissenting voices throughout the nation.
However presidential spokesperson, Abdul’Aziz Abdul’Aziz, dismissed Atiku’s claims, insisting that there was no government-backed clampdown on opposition.
In response to a BBC Hausa report, yesterday, the previous Vice President cited the invitation of former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, by the police, alongside assaults on some opposition figures, as a part of a broader transfer to weaken events that might problem the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, within the 2027 polls.
Talking by his Particular Assistant on Media, AbdurRashid Shehu Sharada, Atiku mentioned: “From the assault on a former Minister of Justice in Kebbi State, the place our African Democratic Congress, ADC, supporters have been brutalised, to the disruption of an elder’s safety assembly in Katsina led by Usman Bugaje, it’s apparent that the federal government is encouraging political thuggery.”
He added that the disruption of an ADC assembly in Kaduna, which El-Rufai attended, was significantly worrisome since no arrests have been made, noting that as a substitute, the police selected to ask El-Rufai and different opposition leaders for questioning.
Nonetheless, Abdul’Aziz defined that El-Rufai’s police invitation adopted statements he made on the Kaduna occasion and reviews of armed supporters in attendance, noting: “As for the incidents in Kebbi and Katsina, the federal government had no hand in them.”
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