Ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has attacked President Bola Tinubu describing the president as being helpless and displaying nonchalance in the face of routine acts of banditry and terrorism.

Atiku was reacting to the attack in Katsina State on Monday. The attack reportedly led to the deaths and kidnapping of some women and children.

While condemning the attacks on Tuesday, Atiku in a statement he shared on social media expressed sadness “by reports of the attack on Yargoje village in Kankara LGA of Katsina State, which claimed scores of lives and the kidnapping of vulnerable women and children.”

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lamented that “It is also sad that the bandits ambushed the police armoured personnel carrier responding to the distress call at Gidan Tofa and Dan Nakwabo villages, killing four police officers and two members of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps.”

He added, “Most worrisome to me is that these acts of banditry and terrorism have become routine, with the government seemingly helpless and nonchalant about it despite the enormous annual budget for defence.”

He expressed sympathy and called “on the government to be alive to its responsibility of protecting the lives and property of the citizens.”