Former Vice President and a chieftain of the African
\nDemocratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu of
\nactively dismantling democracy and pushing Nigeria toward full-blown
\nauthoritarian rule, with dangerous implications for the entire West African
\nsubregion.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a blistering condemnation on Monday, Atiku reacted to Former Vice President and a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229112-tinubu-strangling-democracy-nigeria-sliding-into-authoritarian-rule-atiku.PNG",72,72,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhat he described as a state-sponsored siege by operatives of the Department of
\nState Services (DSS) on the residences and businesses of former Attorney
\nGeneral of the Federation…
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