Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said, people who live in the same estate with Cross River Governor are lamenting “robbers are breaking into their homes”.
The 2027 Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) said, the private residence of the Governor, who is serving under the umbrella of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is guarded by “police and two roadblocks”.
Via X, Waziri described the current security situation in the area as “APC style”, and said, “Security that stops at the governor’s gate is not security; it is a fence”.
Atiku said: “In Calabar, the neighbours of Cross River’s APC governor say robbers are breaking into their homes in the same estate where armed police and two roadblocks guard the governor’s private residence.
“One resident lost his air conditioner and freezer. Another says robbers attacked two houses on a nearby street only last week.”
He said, the Governor has “two roadblocks”, but, the people have “none”; he added, despite living beside the first citizen of the Coastal State, the people “cannot sleep without fear”.
Atiku further said: “This is security, APC style: two roadblocks for the governor, and none for the people next door. For nearly three years, the governor has run the state from his private house while Government House is renovated;
“yet the people living beside him cannot sleep without fear. If the APC cannot secure the street beside the governor, what does it offer the villages beyond the capital?”
Atiku promised to bring transformation to the Police from a “regime-protecting force into a citizen-focused public service”, he added, he will “expand” the Nigeria Police to international standard of “one officer for every four hundred and fifty citizens”.
He assured: “I will transform the police from a regime-protecting force into a citizen-focused public service, and I will expand the force towards the international standard of one officer for every four hundred and fifty citizens, so that protection reaches every street, not only the powerful.
“I will also build community-based security and intelligence networks, so that neighbourhoods can raise the alarm before the thieves arrive.”
