“History And Nigerians Will Judge You”, Atiku Accuses Tinubu of Violating Nigeria’s Constitution

Former  Nigerian vice president and opposition leader, Atiku Abubakar has accused president Bola Ahmed Tinubu of deliberately violating Nigeria’s constitution for his political gains.

Atiku Abubakar made the controversial remark on 24th of December, 2025 through his X (Twitter) handle, alleging that president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration’s delay in enforcing Supreme court judgement on Local Government Area autonomy is a violation of the Nigeria’s constitution and a blatant disregard for the Supreme court of Nigeria.

Atiku Abubakar claims that president Tinubu deliberately ignored enforcing the Supreme ruling which established the autonomy of the 774 local government areas of the federation so as to use it as a strategic tool to coerce state-governors into his political party.

“This is not delay. It is defiance. Your refusal to act is a calculated political move—using obedience to the law as a bargaining chip to force opposition governors into the APC and to keep governors within your party firmly under your control. In doing so, you have reduced the Constitution to a tool of convenience and governance to partisan bargaining”, he stated.

Atiku Abubakar added that the supreme court judgement which mandated the Federal government to disburse local government allocations directly to the local government authorities and not through the state-governors, is final and ought to have been implimented.

“Let us be clear: Supreme Court judgments are final, not optional. Persistently refusing to enforce one is a direct breach of the Constitution and a violation of the oath you swore to Nigerians”.

Atiku Abubakar while responding to president Tinubu’s threat at the APC Executive Committee Meeting of using an executive order to enforce the supreme court ruling if the state-governors due not want to willfully abide by the supreme court judgement, argued that Tinubu’s threat is diversionary and unnecessary as the president only requires to instruct the attorney general of the federation to implement the supreme court judgement.

“This situation does not require threats of Executive Orders or political drama. The solution is simple: instruct the Attorney-General of the Federation to enforce the judgment immediately. Anything short of this is a failure of leadership”.

Atiku Abubakar thereafter warned president Bola Ahmed about his prioritizing his political interest and party over the Nigeria’s constitution, stating that Nigerians and history will judge him.

“Your continued inaction sends a clear message: that political control matters more than constitutional duty, that party dominance matters more than economic justice, and that regime survival outweighs the daily suffering of Nigerians already battered by harsh economic policies.

Nigeria deserves leadership that obeys the law it swore to protect, not one that bends it for political gain.

History will not forget this moment. Nigerians will not either”