At this rate, Tinubu may soon imprison everyone critical of his administration – Atiku

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar expressed concern that if President Bola Tinubu continues at his current rate, he may soon imprison all Nigerians for his own protection.

Atiku also lambasted the Tinubu administration for prosecuting Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters.

He claimed that Sowore’s prosecution, as well as the arrest and detention of Professor Usman Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), constituted “systematic harassment and intimidation”.

Yusuf was arrested on Wednesday by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) agents for allegedly committing N4 billion fraud, among other charges.

Reacting to the revelations via his official X Twitter, Atiku called Sowore’s prosecution unfounded, saying that Tinubu’s government may soon imprison everyone who criticises his regime.

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 general election argued that the alleged systematic harassment of critics and opposition personalities, as well as the deconstruction of opposition parties, were attempts to build a one-party system.

Atiku stated, “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 @YeleSowore is the latest chapter in this unrelenting campaign.

“Now, they have deemed it 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.”

Atiku’s comments echoed his past assertion that the APC was liquidating opposition parties in order to establish a one-party system.

Speaking as a panellist at a recent national conference in Abuja, Atiku said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) bought opposition groups with N50 million to weaken their leadership before of the 2027 elections.

Opposition parties responded to the claim, with the Labour Party (LP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) asking the former vice president to present specific proof to support his allegation.

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