Atiku will never learn, Tinubu’s aide tackles ex-VP over zoning comments

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has criticised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his comments on the North-South power rotation ahead of the 2027 election.

He said President Bola Tinubu must complete two terms in office, insisting that the South should retain the presidency till 2031.

“Since Buhari completed his eight years, Tinubu too must complete his own,” Onanuga wrote in a post on X on Thursday.

He added, “All Atiku needs to do is to bury the thought of running again, as it is still the South’s turn in the 2027 election.”

The presidential aide accused Atiku of advancing a “self-serving argument” to justify what he described as an attempt to disrupt Nigeria’s informal zoning arrangement.

“This Atiku will never learn. Once again, Abubakar Atiku has put forward a self-serving argument to justify his attempt to disrupt Nigeria’s power rotation arrangement,” he said.

Onanuga further stated, “In 2023, as a member of the PDP—a party that, like others, practices zoning—Atiku disregarded the established formula and sought to succeed a fellow northerner, who had spent eight years in office.” Punch