A former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the prosecution of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore.
According to him, Sowore’s prosecution, as well as the arrest and detention of a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof Usman Yusuf, amounts to “systematic harassment and intimidation.”
Atiku stated this on his official X handle on Thursday.
He described Sowore’s prosecution as baseless and claimed that anyone who criticises Tinubu’s government could be jailed.
Atiku tweeted: “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 seen 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.”
