Presidency blasts Atiku over Jilli airstrike comment

The Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu connected Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, has criticized erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar implicit his comments connected the airstrikes successful Jilli, Borno State, describing them arsenic misleading and politically motivated.

In a connection issued connected Monday, Dare faulted Atiku for alleging that civilians were targeted during the operation, insisting that the Nigerian Air Force conducted a “targeted, intelligence-led” onslaught connected insurgent positions.

Atiku had earlier condemned the airstrike connected Jilli Market, which reportedly resulted successful the deaths of respective traders, calling it a “devastating failure” that should provoke nationalist outrage.

Responding, Dare said it was “disappointing and telling” for Atiku to politicize the incident, stressing that the Air Force struck insurgent locations wrong and astir the Jilli axis.

He explained that though the country is inactive referred to arsenic Jilli Market, it has allegedly been taken implicit and repurposed by violent groups arsenic a logistics and coordination hub.

“For Atiku Abubakar to disregard this discourse and framework a morganatic subject enactment arsenic an onslaught connected civilians is not lone misleading, it is reckless,” Dare said, adding that specified statements could undermine the morale of information forces.

Dare further accused the erstwhile vice president of inconsistency, ...