“Tinubu’s govt approach merely redistributing terror not eliminating it” – ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the government of President Bola Tinubu of only redistributing terror across states of the country.

The ADC alleged that the present administration rather than focus on eliminating terrorism and banditry ravaging the nation, has continued to adopt ineffective measures to tackle the insecurity in Nigeria.

In a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC described the killing of over 100 residents of Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara state as evidence of a total collapse of security under the Tinubu-led administration.

The coalition party also questioned what has become of the President’s declaration of a state of emergency on security and the promised recruitment of thousands of police officers across the nation.

According to the ADC, it has become obvious that the heightened security activities seen in the past year following the aftermath of the comments by President Donald Trump were a mere posturing to earn international approval rather than genuine efforts to end insecurity in the country.

Abdullahi also said that the scale and frequency of killings across the country since then have shown that whatever measures the government has taken since then are not working, indicating that the government’s approach is merely redistributing terror rather than eliminating it.

Further commiserating with the families of the victims of the Kwara attack, Abdullahi said what makes this tragedy even more troubling are growing concerns that the perpetrators may be part of terrorist elements recently dispersed by the United States Christmas-Day military action in Sokoto State.

According to him, these fleeing terrorists may be relocating to other states due to weak internal security coordination.

“The net summary of this, which has now become self-evident from these industrial-scale killings in areas hitherto considered safe, is that the Tinubu administration, whatever it is doing, is not winning the war against terror, it is merely redistributing it.

“Whether it is the mass abductions in Kaduna or the mass killings in Kwara, both highlight the deep structural failures of Nigeria’s internal security system in terms of intelligence gathering, border control, inter-agency collaboration, and emergency response capability,” Abdullahi noted.

Also calling on Nigerians to ask serious questions on what happened to the President’s much-publicised declaration, the ADC spokesperson warned that Nigeria’s security crisis has clearly moved beyond the competence and capacity of the Tinubu-led Federal Government.

“Across the country, killings have become routine, accountability has disappeared, and government response has been reduced to condolences and condemnations in the aftermath of each tragedy, conveniently forgetting that a government that cannot safeguard the lives of its people has failed in its most fundamental duty.

”The African Democratic Congress therefore calls on the Federal Government to immediately come clean with Nigerians on the true state of  Nigeria’s national security, to account for the security recruitment it announced, and to explain how it intends to stop the spread and relocation of terrorist groups across states.

”Nigeria cannot continue on this path of denial and inaction. Lives are not statistics, and governance is not public relations. The ADC stands firmly with Nigerians in demanding competent leadership, honest governance, and a security strategy that protects lives rather than reacts after mass graves have been dug,” he added.