Allow Tinubu concentrate fully on governance - Onitiri tells Atiku

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been advised to tread softly and allow President Bola Tinubu to concentrate on governance, instead of heating up the polity and causing unnecessary disunity and distractions, socio-political activist and critic, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri has said.

In a statement issued in Lagos, Onitiri noted that while millions of Nigerians were dying of hunger and starvation, Atiku was busy with the certificate saga.

The statement read in part: “Atiku must be told in clear language that it is an act of arrogance, insensitivity, and a disservice to the entire Nigerians to continue to heat up the political space in view of the present daunting economic, hunger, insecurity, and other social challenges facing the nation, to which the Federal and state governments are trying assiduously to find solutions.

“Nobody is begrudging or begging Atiku not to pursue his presidential election petition against President Tinubu at the apex court. But it is not acceptable to Nigerians, especially the democrats for him to indulge in self-help by trying the case on pages of newspapers, social media, and TV programmes.

“If Atiku believes he has a good case, he should wait for the outcome of his appeal before the Supreme Court, instead of disgracing the entire Nigerians before the outside world and denting the nation’s image.”