{"id":230176,"date":"2026-04-12T02:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-atikus-aide-faults-tinubu-over-plateau-visit-lagos-engagements\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:24:44","slug":"nigeria-atikus-aide-faults-tinubu-over-plateau-visit-lagos-engagements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-atikus-aide-faults-tinubu-over-plateau-visit-lagos-engagements\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Atiku&#8217;s Aide Faults Tinubu Over Plateau Visit, Lagos Engagements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The aide warns that the current approach to governance falls short of the solemn responsibilities of the presidency, emphasising that leadership is not a ceremonial privilege but a duty that demands presence, responsiveness, and an unwavering sense of purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/ck\/a?!&amp;&amp;p=68476bdab2f68e192f9af62501a947bd01e24be4759ca14bb41cbe74c1e59a06JmltdHM9MTc3NTc3OTIwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=307d5679-e901-601d-016f-40dce81361e8&amp;psq=President+Bola+Tinubu&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0ZWhvdXNlLmdvdi5uZy90ZWFtL2JvbGEtYWhtZWQtdGludWJ1Lw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Bola Tinubu<\/a><\/strong> over what he described as a troubling pattern of absentee leadership that raises serious questions about his commitment to the responsibilities entrusted to him by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100231.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aide warns that the current approach to governance falls short of the solemn responsibilities of the presidency, emphasising that leadership is not a ceremonial privilege but a duty that demands presence, responsiveness, and an unwavering sense of purpose. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned President Bola Tinubu over what he described as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,16363,24469,39655,17773,2477,257,4687,393,14079,254,8308,6250],"class_list":["post-230176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aide","tag-atikus","tag-engagements","tag-faults","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-plateau","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}