Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga over his comment on late former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Shaibu took to his X handle (formerly Twitter) and wrote:

“@aonanuga1956, this is how low the Tinubu presidency has sunk.”

“Fighting ghosts because it cannot face Nigerians. Blaming a dead man because the living one in Aso Rock is clueless.”

“If @MBuhari was so irrelevant, why is your presidency still trembling at his shadow and his 12 million votes?”

“Why are you dragging his corpse into a propaganda war just to defend a regime choking under its own incompetence?”

“Let’s be honest. Tinubu has failed in record time. His ‘renewed hope’ is now renewed hunger. And his legacy is already hiding behind the coffin of his predecessor.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A government that is losing the living is now picking fights with the dead.”

“If this is the best @officialABAT’s media team can offer, then we truly have no leadership, only loud bitterness masking quiet failure.”

“Let us stop pretending. No presidential aide attacks a former head of state who is not even buried without clearance from the top.”

“If @officialABAT did not approve the gutter-level assault on Buhari’s legacy, let him prove it. Sack @aonanuga1956 now.”

“Otherwise, Nigerians will know this is not just indiscipline. It is a cowardly hit job signed by the President himself.”

For those who don’t know, Shaibu was reacting to Onanuga’s post on X about a video of a large crowd with the caption:

“A video to rejig the memory of those who claimed that only Buhari’s 13 million votes gave him the presidency in 2015 and 2019.”

However, the video has been deleted by Onanuga amid backlash.