{"id":169691,"date":"2025-07-16T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:18:33","slug":"atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Aide: Tinubu Fights Ghosts Fails Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to sack his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over his comment on late former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu said Tinubu\u2019s presidency has sunk to the level where he now fights with \u201cghosts\u201d and blames the dead.<\/p>\n<p>He was reacting to Onanuga\u2019s post on X regarding Buhari\u2019s 12 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga had posted a video of a large crowd with the caption: \u201cA video to rejig the memory of those who claimed that only Buhari\u2019s 13 million votes gave him the presidency in 2015 and 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video has been deleted by Onanuga amid backlash.<\/p>\n<p>He posted the video on Tuesday while preparations were ongoing for Buhari\u2019s burial in Daura, Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Shaibu insisted that Onanuga got Tinubu\u2019s clearance before posting such a video, before he deleted it.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Shaibu wrote: \u201c@aonanuga1956, this is how low the Tinubu presidency has sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting ghosts because it cannot face Nigerians. Blaming a dead man because the living one in Aso Rock is clueless.<\/p>\n<p>If @MBuhari was so irrelevant, why is your presidency still trembling at his shadow and his 12 million votes?<\/p>\n<p>Why are you dragging his corpse into a propaganda war just to defend a regime choking under its own incompetence?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest. Tinubu has failed in record time. His \u2018renewed hope\u2019 is now renewed hunger. And his legacy is already hiding behind the coffin of his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>This is not governance. It is a circus of insecurity, where those in charge panic at the truth and lash out at the dead because they have lost control of the living.<\/p>\n<p>The Tinubu presidency cannot tame inflation, cannot stop the naira from bleeding, cannot keep the lights on or salaries paid, but has time to launch a PR war against a dead man.<\/p>\n<p>A government that is losing the living is now picking fights with the dead.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the best @officialABAT\u2019s media team can offer, then we truly have no leadership, only loud bitterness masking quiet failure.<\/p>\n<p>Let us stop pretending. No presidential aide attacks a former head of state who is not even buried without clearance from the top.<\/p>\n<p>If @officialABAT did not approve the gutter-level assault on Buhari\u2019s legacy, let him prove it. Sack @aonanuga1956 now.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Nigerians will know this is not just indiscipline. It is a cowardly hit job signed by the President himself.<\/p>\n<p>#TinubuFailedAlready #BlameGameGovernment #RespectTheDead #BuhariDidNotStartYourIncompetence #SackOnanugaNow<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to sack his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over his comment on late former President Muhammadu Buhari. Shaibu said Tinubu\u2019s presidency has sunk to the level where he now fights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,254,10251,945],"class_list":["post-169691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-phrank-shaibu","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atiku Aide: Tinubu Fights Ghosts Fails Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has challenged Pre ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku Aide: Tinubu Fights Ghosts Fails Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has challenged Pre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T08:13:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T09:18:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752645022.244228.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"592\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku Aide: Tinubu Fights Ghosts Fails Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-16T08:13:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-16T09:18:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":441,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752645022.244228.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"Phrank Shaibu\u200e\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-aide-tinubu-fights-ghosts-fails-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Atiku Aide: Tinubu Fights Ghosts Fails Nigerians - 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