Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and candidate of the PDP in the last Presidential election has chided President Bola Tinubu over the growing wave of insecurity in the country, urging the President to step aside if he can’t fix it.

Atiku accused Tinubu of fiddling while the country is drowning in insecurity, in his verified X handle on Tuesday.

“If the shoes are too big for Emilokan, he should step aside. Nigeria does not need another Tourist-in-Chief,” Atiku said.

“The country needs 24/7 leadership to confront the pervasive insecurity and collapsing economy,” he wrote.

“Tinubu is playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity. To imagine that the Commander-in-Chief is on a so-called private visit while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90m ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti, among…

— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) January 30, 2024

“Tinubu is playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity,” Atiku wrote.

“To imagine that the Commander-in-Chief is on a so-called private visit while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90m ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti, among other regular tragedies besetting Nigerians.”

Atiku who has been shadow-marking Tinubu in his opposition duty fell short of calling Tinubu incompetent while citing cases of kidnapping in Ekiti and FCT.