Saturday, November 29, 2025 - Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has charged the Federal Government to stop apologizing and negotiating with terrorists.
Obasanjo gave this charge on Friday at the Plateau State
Unity Christmas Carol and Praise Festival held in Jos, the state capital.
His comment is coming against the backdrop of the escalating
killings, abductions, and other attacks on several communities in the North in
recent weeks.
Recalls that on November 21, a total of 315 students and 13
teachers were abducted from St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State.
The incident came after the terrorists kidnapped 24
schoolgirls at the Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu
Local Government Area of Kebbi State, on November 17.
In the latest assault, bandits struck the Palaita community,
Erena Ward, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting 24 people,
including pregnant women, from a rice farm.
About 20 persons were also abducted by bandits in Kano and
Kwara between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The development comes barely 24 hours after 38 worshippers
abducted from the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Isegun, Eruku, Ikere, Kwara
State, on November 18, were released after the Federal Government negotiated
with their abductors.
In the Tuesday attack, 10 persons, including a pregnant
woman, nursing mothers, and children were reportedly seized in Isapa community,
a few kilometres from Eruku, Kwara State.
Obasanjo, while speaking at the event, expressed displeasure
over the escalated insecurity.
“Our government must stop apologizing and negotiating with
terrorists. No matter what religion you belong to. No matter where you come
from. No matter your profession, we Nigerians are being killed, and our
government seems to be incapable of protecting us.
“We are part of the world community. If our government
cannot do it, we have the right to call on the international community to do
for us what our government cannot do for us,” he said.
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