Bolaji Abdullahi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Africa Democratic Congress, ADC has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to resign from his position, as Commander-in-chief saying he has failed to rein in insecurity in the country.
The ADC spokesperson who spoke on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Thursday said the president appears not to have solutions to the myriads of security problems facing the country.
His remark comes on the heels of a similar call by the 2023 SDP Presidential Candidate , Adewole Adebayo, who said funds allocated for security in the country are being seriously looted by government officials.
Adebayo: Resign with the pen or kill terrorists with the bullets. To the insecurity problem, President Tinubu can use the bullets to kill terrorists or use the pen to resign.
” What they are doing now, they are using the insecurity as an excuse to loot all the money.
” The Nigerian Armed Forces, the way I know them can protect the whole of West Africa if you let them do it, but they can not protect their own barracks if you say they should not do it.”
Also Folarin Falana, a Nigerian rapper and activist, popular as Falz, called on Tinubu to resign from his position as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Falz based his call on the abduction of 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, and the execution of Brigadier General Musa Uba in Borno State.
The Rapper in a post on X (former Twitter) on Wednesday, referenced the 2014 tweet by Tinubu in which the then opposition leader asked former President Goodluck Jonathan to resign for allegedly failing to tackle insecurity following the abduction of Chibok Girls.
Going down memory lane and quoting Tinubu’s words, Falz wrote: “You have consistently shown your unwillingness to protect the lives and property of our people despite pretending to care in the past. RESIGN NOW!”
The tweet by Falz cited the post in Tinubu of November 2014, seven months after the abduction of Chibok girls.
Abdullahi cited the recent upsurge in insecurity in the country such as the abduction of 25 girls from Government Secondary School, Maga , Kebbi state on Tuesday by bandits and the brutal murder of Brig Gen. Uba Musa by ISWAP terrorists.
Two of the abducted school girls have escaped and re-united with their parents, according to the state government.
Gen Uba was captured by the terrorists after he had earlier escaped an ambush in which some of his troops were killed during a patrol in a part of the state.
He was later shot in the head by the terrorists who thwarted a rescue mission for him by troops in the Sambisa Forest.
According to the ADC spokesman, the spate of killings and insecurity have gotten worse and President Tinubu appears not to have solutions to the problem, adding that Nigerians are demanding the president’s resignation of his position the same way that he demanded the resignation of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 when the country faced similar insecurity problems.
Following the rising insecurity problems in the country, not a few Nigerians have called of Tinubu to resign from office with the believe that he’s no longer capable of solving the problem.
Those calling on him to resign cited a similar call he made to former President Jonathan after rise in Boko Haram attacks during the period, particularly after the abduction of Chibok Girls on April 14, 2014 in Borno state , one of the epicenters of terrorism in the country.
On Wednesday, the magazine reported that President Tinubu had decided to shelve his foreign trip to South Africa for the G20 Meeting and Rwanda, where he is expected to represent the country at 7th AU-EU Summit.
Those who spoke on the president’s change of mind to embark of the trip, said he did so because of the outbursts in the country, that he wanted to abandon the country at a very critical time when his presence is required to provide leadership amid rising insecurity situation.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu was scheduled to leave Abuja yesterday to attend the 20th G20 Summit of leaders in South Africa and thereafter proceed to Luanda to attend the 7th AU-EU Summit.
The statement reads, “Disturbed by the security breaches in Kebbi State and Monday’s attack by bandits against worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church, Eruku, Kwara state, President Tinubu decided to suspend his departure.
”He now awaits reports from Vice President Kashim Shettima, who paid a sympathy visit to Kebbi on his behalf, as well as reports from the police and the Department of State Services regarding the attack in Kwara.
”President Tinubu reiterates his directive to the security agencies to do everything possible to rescue the school girls, abducted by the bandits and bring the girls back home, safe.”
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