Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said he would personally take charge of tackling insecurity if elected president, questioning President Bola Tinubu’s capacity to handle the country’s security challenges.
Speaking in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, Obi dismissed claims that opposition politicians or international factors are driving Nigeria’s security crisis, insisting the government has the power to end it if there is sufficient political will.
The former Anambra governor said tackling insecurity requires one clear leader, and cited the recent kidnapping of schoolchildren in Oyo State as an example. He said that if he were president, he would have gone to Ibadan personally and stayed until the victims were rescued — an approach he said he applied as governor during major security incidents in Anambra.
He recalled that former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua called him daily during one of Anambra’s worst armed robbery crises to monitor progress, despite the two belonging to different political parties, describing it as an example of the presidential involvement insecurity demands.
Obi said the ruling party’s claims that opposition figures or external factors are responsible for Nigeria’s insecurity are baseless, stressing that either the government or criminal groups must be in control — not both. He added that Governor Seyi Makinde told him during a weekend visit to Ibadan that President Tinubu had never called him over the abductions, describing this as unacceptable.
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