Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has raised alarm over a plot to assassinate former Vice President Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Frank said the sudden withdrawal of all police personnel
attached to Atiku, despite his statutory entitlement as a former vice
president, was not only suspicious but part of a wider scheme to expose him to
danger.
Frank made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
“No administration since 2007 has ever tampered with Atiku
Abubakar’s security despite his consistent role as a major opposition figure.
Why now? Why at a time when insecurity is at an all-time high across the
country? This action clearly reveals an ulterior motive.”
He stated that the claim that security was being withdrawn
broadly from VIPs was a smokescreen, insisting that the main target is Atiku
Abubakar.
“This so-called blanket withdrawal is a cover-up. The real
objective is to isolate and eliminate Atiku ahead of the 2027 election. The
pattern is too obvious to ignore. Atiku, by law, is entitled to police
protection as a former vice president. Removing his security at this critical
time is deliberate and dangerous,” Frank said.
Frank warned that the move mirrors dangerous political
trends across Africa, where incumbent leaders intimidate, arrest, detain,
prosecute, and, in extreme cases, eliminate opposition leaders to retain power.
“President Tinubu is now following the disturbing trend in
parts of Africa where incumbents use state power to silence their opponents.
Atiku has been very vocal in exposing the failures of this administration, and
this withdrawal of security is nothing but a political witch-hunt,” he
declared.
He challenged the government to prove its claim of a general
security withdrawal by also stripping the president’s family members, close
associates, and political appointees of their police orderlies and escorts.
“If this directive is truly nationwide, then let the
President’s family members, friends, and appointees also lose their security.
They are also VIPs. But we know the truth: the main target is Atiku Abubakar,
nobody else.”
This comes as the Nigeria Police commenced the withdrawal of
11,566 police officers previously assigned to Very Important Personalities
(VIPs) nationwide.
The move followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive on
the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security to VIPs amid
mounting insecurity concerns.
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