Wednesday, April 29, 2026 - Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria is decaying and crying for good leadership to salvage it.
Obi said this in a statement posted on his verified X handle
on Tuesday.
The former Anambra State governor was reacting to the rising
level of insecurity in the country.
He said, “We are fast becoming a nation where human life is
treated as expendable, where citizens live in fear, and where the basic duty of
government, to protect lives and property, is repeatedly neglected.
“11 innocent Nigerians were killed in Katsina State. 7 more
in Benue State. 23 in Adamawa State in just one day. An entire family was
brutally murdered in Plateau State. 24 children were abducted from an orphanage
in Kogi State, and 10 more children were taken in Kaduna State, all within 48
hours.
“These are not mere statistics; they are our fellow
Nigerians, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, whose lives have been brutally
cut short or violently disrupted.
“This cannot continue. A nation cannot develop under the
weight of such persistent insecurity and human tragedy. The normalization of
these horrors is itself a crisis. We must ask, with all sense of urgency and
responsibility: where is the leadership? Where is the coordination, the
competence, and the compassion required to confront this menace decisively?
“My heart goes out to all the grieving families across these
states. I pray for divine comfort for those who have lost loved ones and for
the safe and immediate return of all abducted children.”
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