Tinubu strangling democracy, Nigeria sliding into authoritarian rule – Atiku

Former Vice President and a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu of actively dismantling ideology and pushing Nigeria toward full-blown authoritarian rule, with unsafe implications for the full West African subregion.

In a blistering condemnation connected Monday, Atiku reacted to what helium described arsenic a state-sponsored siege by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) connected the residences and businesses of erstwhile Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, an enactment helium called lawless, vindictive, and politically motivated.

According to Atiku’s media office, the DSS swooped successful to seal Malami’s properties soon aft his sojourn contempt the substance being earlier the courts.

“This is not governance. This is intimidation. This is simply a authorities weaponizing authorities powerfulness to soundlessness dissent,” Atiku declared.

He warned that Nigeria is witnessing the accelerated erosion of antiauthoritarian norms nether Tinubu, with authorities institutions present reduced to tools of governmental persecution.

“What we are seeing is the bare maltreatment of powerfulness information agencies deployed not for nationalist security, but for settling governmental scores. This is however democracies die,” helium said.

Atiku accused the Tinubu medication of moving a deliberate and coordinated run to crush absorption voices and enforce full governmental power up o...