The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s push for Nigeria to safe a everlasting seat on the United Nations Safety Council, saying the transfer is absurd whereas the nation continues to battle with worsening insecurity.
In an announcement signed by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi on Sunday, the social gathering mentioned it was improper for the federal government to be asking for world obligations when it can’t shield the lives of its personal residents.
“It’s stunning that the Tinubu administration is asking for a everlasting seat on the United Nations Safety Council whereas bandits are slaughtering Nigerians and taking on elements of the nation,” the ADC mentioned.
“How can a authorities that can’t present peace or safety at house anticipate to be taken critically on the world desk the place safety is mentioned?”
“Simply final Friday, gunmen attacked a mosque in Yandoto village, Zamfara State, killing worshippers and abducting others. Solely weeks earlier, about 45 folks had been killed in Zamfara, complete villages had been sacked, and dozens kidnapped. In Katsina, an analogous assault left about 47 folks useless with many extra injured or taken hostage,” the social gathering added.
“In solely two months, over 140 Nigerians have been murdered in Zamfara and Katsina alone. Amnesty Worldwide reported that greater than 10,000 lives have been misplaced since Might 2025 to assaults by armed teams. These will not be statistics; they’re human beings, Nigerians this administration promised renewed hope.”
Based on the assertion, the ADC had final month raised the alarm that armed teams in Zamfara State had compelled farmers to pay over N56 million earlier than being allowed entry to their farmlands.
The social gathering argued that the dimensions of lawlessness within the state raises critical questions on Nigeria’s territorial management, noting that when non-state actors impose levies, limit entry to land, and kill with out penalties, they perform as a parallel authority fairly than atypical criminals.
“That is now not nearly insecurity; it’s about Nigeria’s territorial integrity being eroded beneath President Bola Tinubu,” the ADC mentioned.
“What we see at the moment isn’t merely a safety lapse, however clear proof, written in blood and harmless lives misplaced, of a authorities that has misplaced management.”
“In any critical nation, these tragedies would have led to resignations, emergency conferences, and a whole evaluation of technique. Right here, they’re decreased to routine condolence messages from presidential propagandists,” the assertion continued.
“It’s subsequently absurd that the identical administration, beneath whose watch Nigerians are being killed each day and bandits are taking management of territories, now seeks to sit down on the highest desk of worldwide safety discussions.”
“The world isn’t fooled by fantastic speeches in New York. They see that elements of Nigeria have grow to be killing fields, the place life has grow to be, in fact, nasty, brutish, and quick.”
The assertion added that Nigeria’s push for a everlasting seat on the UN Safety Council will proceed to be seen as unrealistic till the federal government proves it could actually shield its personal residents.
“True management on the world stage should start with accountability at house, but the nation stays soaked in blood whereas guarantees of safety go unfulfilled.”
The ADC additionally criticised President Bola Tinubu for lacking the commissioning of 874 new officers on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna for the second consecutive yr.
The social gathering argued that at a time of worsening insecurity, the President ought to have used the occasion to encourage the officers and reassure northern communities beneath assault. As a substitute, he selected to attend the commissioning of the renovated Nationwide Arts Theater in Lagos, which the social gathering described as a misplaced precedence.
“With all these alerts, this administration is stricken by misplaced priorities. The President has grow to be a passive spectator, watching from a distance whereas villages burn and prayers finish in gunfire,” the ADC mentioned.
“With such tragic indifference, this authorities dangers creating the harmful notion that some Nigerian lives matter lower than others. A President who was fast to declare a state of emergency over a political disaster in Rivers, however stays silent on the killings in Zamfara and Katsina, can’t declare that every one lives matter.”
“We subsequently repeat our name for the rapid declaration of a state of emergency in Zamfara State. The siege on that state should finish, and the tide of bloodshed should be stopped.”
