Furious Atiku Slams Bold Ibadan Challenge Ambush of Adelabu’s Family; Tells Tinubu to Wake Up as Terror Knocks on Government Doors

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a blistering assault on the Federal Government’s failure to manage the country’s sweeping internal security deficit, declaring that the audacious morning kidnapping of the younger sister and twin nephews of former Power Minister Chief Adebayo Adelabu in the heart of Ibadan is definitive proof that no one is safe under the current administration.

The high-profile reaction from the 2027 African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential contender follows a wave of absolute shock that has locked down Oyo State. On Wednesday morning, June 3, 2026, a heavily armed syndicate intercepted 43-year-old Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul—a recent voluntary retiree from the Central Bank of Nigeria, at the prominent Challenge Bus Stop. The attackers smashed her vehicle’s windows and forcefully bundled her alongside her 12-year-old twin sons, Peter and Paul, into a getaway sedan before executing an escape script down the highway lines.

In a highly charged press brief released on Wednesday evening by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku expressed deep, emotional solidarity with the transitioning Adelabu family while fiercely layout out the political gravity of the urban hit. He noted that the audacity of criminals striking in broad daylight within one of Ibadan’s most heavily populated commercial grids unmasks a total collapse of the state’s defensive shield.

“The fact that kidnappers could strike in such a prominent public space without fear of immediate interception speaks volumes about the worsening state of insecurity in the country,” Atiku declared with absolute candor. “While millions of ordinary Nigerians have endured the horrors of kidnapping for years, this latest incident raises a question the government can no longer avoid: if those in power have become entirely desensitized to the suffering of ordinary citizens, should they not at least be alarmed when insecurity reaches the doorstep of people connected to government?”

The veteran statesman lamented that under the current federal cabinet’s watch, violent crime has been allowed to expand into an unchecked, highly organized market. He stated that the continuous failure of the national security manual has forced ordinary families to live in an agonizing loop of trauma, noting that Nigerians have tragically been pushed into budgeting for unexpected ransom payments in the exact same manner they budget for school fees and basic survival commodities.

Atiku took a direct swipe at the ruling class’s false sense of insulation, emphasizing that the expanding security fractures cross all socioeconomic boundaries, political alignments, and tribal affiliations.

“Kidnappers do not ask for party membership cards before striking,” the statement continued. “They do not distinguish between APC members and opposition supporters. They do not care whether their victims are ministers, traders, teachers, students, or farmers. The same insecurity that has turned the lives of ordinary Nigerians into a daily nightmare is now knocking on doors many in government may have assumed were beyond its reach.”

Concluding his brief, Atiku delivered a strict directive to the Office of the National Security Adviser and the Inspector-General of Police, urging them to pull out all the stops to execute a rapid technical rescue. He maintained that any sovereign government incapable of protecting its citizens within its primary metropolis has fundamentally failed its constitutional obligation. He called for the immediate, unconditional release of the twin boys and their mother, urging tactical squads to bypass bureaucratic talking points and deploy advanced forensic tracking to safely neutralize the syndicate before the ongoing regional panic triggers a total breakdown of public order.