The House Minority Caucus has demanded that President Tinubu suspend his 2027 re-election activities and declare a six-month security and economic recovery plan, warning that Nigeria is sliding toward collapse amid mass abductions, banditry and economic hardship.
Nigeria’s opposition lawmakers didn’t pull any punches on Wednesday. Addressing reporters at the National Assembly in Abuja, the House Minority Caucus accused President Bola Tinubu of putting his 2027 re-election ambitions ahead of the country’s worsening security and economic crisis — and gave him a blunt ultimatum: “Lead or leave.”
According to Daily Trust, Minority Leader Fred Agbedi said the caucus wants Tinubu to suspend all political activity tied to next year’s polls and instead roll out a six-month National Security and Economic Recovery Plan. The lawmakers pointed to a grim run of recent events to make their case: the mass abduction of schoolchildren in Borno and Oyo who remain in captivity, the kidnapping of pupils in Kogi, and the death of retired Major-General Rabe Abubakar, who was abducted alongside his wife in Katsina State before reportedly dying in his captors’ hands.
Agbedi called the General’s death a damning indictment of state failure, questioning how a man who once commanded troops could be kidnapped and killed within Nigeria’s own borders. He also slammed the government’s handling of the Oyo abductions, accusing officials of normalising mass kidnappings instead of acting decisively.
The caucus’s outburst comes just days after Nigeria’s top Muslim and Catholic leaders — the Sultan of Sokoto and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference — separately raised alarm over the country’s deteriorating security, urging the federal government to act fast against the wave of killings, kidnappings and banditry sweeping states from Plateau to Zamfara.
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