Atiku seeks answers on Lekki shooting, economic hardship
Atiku Abubakar has criticised the APC-led government over unresolved questions on the 2020 Lekki shooting and the rising cost of living in Nigeria. Read More:…
The Lekki Toll Gate shooting of October 20, 2020, remains one of the most contested episodes of Nigeria's #EndSARS protests against police brutality. Soldiers were alleged to have opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, with conflicting accounts from the Lagos State government, the military, and witnesses over casualties and responsibility. A judicial panel of inquiry later found evidence of shootings and unlawful killings, but the federal government has disputed aspects of that report, and no one has been successfully prosecuted, leaving victims' families and civil society groups demanding accountability years on.
Atiku Abubakar, a longtime opposition figure who has repeatedly contested for the presidency, is using the unresolved case alongside Nigeria's cost-of-living crisis to question the APC administration's governance record. Punch and Leadership both report his criticism of the government on these two fronts, though neither outlet's excerpt specifies what concrete demands or policy alternatives he has proposed, or in what forum the remarks were made.