Tinubu’s Aide Challenges Atiku Over Delay In Questioning Lekki Shooting, Says ‘You Visited Buhari Twice And Didn’t Ask’

Dada Olusegun, Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, has attacked former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar over his criticism of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government’s handling of the October 2020 Lekki Toll Gate shooting.

The presidential aide questioned why Atiku, who is the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), failed to demand answers from former President Muhammadu Buhari during his multiple visits to him after the incident.

Less than a year later, on the 11th of April 2025, you visited him again at his retirement home in Kaduna, renovated by President Tinubu.

Olusegun argued that Atiku had ample opportunity to confront the administration in power at the time of the protests but chose to remain silent, suggesting his current stance is politically motivated.

The aide further defended President Tinubu, noting that he was an ordinary citizen in 2020 and was himself a victim of the fallout from the protests. He criticized Atiku for attempting to pin the tragedy on the President.

Twisting the complex tragedy of 2020 to pin it on a man who was himself a primary financial and political victim of the fallout, was uncharitable.

The statement comes in response to Atiku’s recent remarks commemorating the sixth anniversary of the #EndSARS protests, where he demanded to know who gave the order for the shooting and criticized President Tinubu’s past comments regarding the victims.