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National Leader of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said President Bola Tinubu has lost control of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity, warning that the president’s leadership failure will ultimately lead to public rejection if urgent action is not taken.
Speaking in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Thursday, Baba-Ahmed said the country was facing a rapidly deteriorating security situation, with violent attacks and kidnappings spreading across all regions of Nigeria.
“President Tinubu has no handle on escalating violence every part of Nigeria is now vulnerable to insecurity. In a civilised democracy, President Tinubu’s record on insecurity would have cost him his seat a long time ago.”
Baba-Ahmed accused the government of failing to confront the reality of escalating violence, saying insecurity had become widespread and unchecked across the country. “Every time children from generals to toddlers are stolen, every inch of Nigeria is now vulnerable to insecurity. Children, toddlers in school have been stolen.”
He said the administration and its inner circle appeared to be normalising the crisis. “Everything that needed to have been said by the media, by civil society, by everybody, except of course the National Assembly, Tinubu himself and his tiny circle of supporters appear to believe that this is a problem that we can live with.”
Baba-Ahmed said the government had failed in its most basic responsibility of protecting citizens. “Now, President Tinubu has spectacularly failed to protect anybody. Again, like I said, every part of Nigeria is now vulnerable.”
He warned that insecurity would continue to worsen if urgent intervention was not taken. “We are in trouble. We haven’t been safe under him and we are likely to be even more exposed to criminality between now and the elections.”
The PRP leader said the party’s position calling for the president’s resignation was not driven by politics but by what he described as a national emergency in governance and security.
“We said everything else. And we say this with all sense of responsibility. President Tinubu should resign.”
He added that public frustration would eventually translate into political consequences for the president. “If we project what he’s doing, how he’s performing between now and the elections, we don’t even need to wait. Nigerians will reject him.”
Baba-Ahmed insisted that Nigeria had reached a point where leadership failure could no longer be ignored or excused, arguing that insecurity had become a defining national crisis. “What else is there? What else is there to say to President Tinubu and to Nigerians? I listened to your programme. You dwelt extensively on the escalation of these kidnappings and violent crimes all over the country.”
Erizia Rubyjeana
