Xenophobic attack: It’s embarrassing — Atiku slams Tinubu’s slow response to South Africa crisis

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned what helium described arsenic the Tinubu administration’s characteristically sluggish and underwhelming effect to the renewed anti-immigrant tensions successful South Africa. 

In a connection by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it is some embarrassing and unacceptable that Nigeria, Africa’s astir populous federation and self-acclaimed giant, had to beryllium shamed into enactment portion smaller nations specified arsenic Ghana moved swiftly to support their citizens.

Atiku noted that the authorities of Ghana demonstrated urgency and enactment by approving the contiguous evacuation of implicit 300 distressed citizens pursuing the latest question of xenophobic threats, portion the Nigerian authorities appeared hesitant, reactive, and devoid of the decisive urgency expected of a federation with Nigeria’s diplomatic stature.

The African Democratic Congress person urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to wantonness what helium described arsenic its habitual slow-footedness and show the urgency and competence Nigerians deserve, particularly successful moments wherever lives and nationalist dignity are astatine stake.

“It is profoundly troubling that Nigeria, a state that prides itself arsenic the leader...