Peter Obi has called on President Bola Tinubu to cancel his scheduled UK trip to address Nigeria’s “disturbing normalization of insecurity” following a series of deadly suicide bombings in Maiduguri.
Following a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Maiduguri that killed 23 people and injured scores more, Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has labeled Nigeria “a nation under siege” and urged President Bola Tinubu to cancel his upcoming state visit to the UK in favor of visiting ravaged communities. Obi criticized the government’s failure to protect its citizens, stating, “The silence from our nation in response to such atrocities indicates a disturbing normalisation of insecurity rather than a decisive confrontation with the issue,” while noting that such a “grave national emergency requires immediate presence, attention, and action.”
In response, presidential spokesperson Daniel Bwala dismissed Obi’s demands, arguing that the former governor lacks an understanding of how governance and delegation work, remarking, “But since Mr Obi is a trader, buying and selling, he doesn’t believe in delegation… I dont expect him to know because he doesn’t have a clear idea of what it takes to run a country.” Despite the criticism, the presidency maintained that security agencies have already been fully mobilized to tackle the internal crisis.
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