Cancel France Trip, Address Killings in Nigeria, Obi Tells Tinubu

By Mahdi Waziri Isa

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to cancel his France trip and return to Nigeria to address the ongoing communal clashes and killings across the country.

Obi made the appeal on Wednesday in a statement posted via his official handle on X.

But Obi decried that the President’s continued stay in a foreign land while people are dying in Nigeria will further deteriorate the rising wave of insecurity in the country.

Obi said, “I am compelled at this time in our lives as a nation to call on our retreating President’s attention to the security challenges at home, which entails that he immediately suspend his ongoing retreat in a foreign land and come home to address the overwhelming security situation across the country.

“In the 2 weeks you have been away, over 150 Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity across Nigeria, especially in Plateau and Zamfara states. The repeated pipeline explosions in the Niger Delta, further reflect a nation in distress.

“In the North East, Borno State leaders are bemoaning the return of insurgency, with troops and civilians being killed randomly. In the Southeast, the story is the same: killings and abductions. Amid all these, the CEO of the troubled company called Nigeria, is retreating to a faraway land in France from the company’s headquarters.

“I, therefore, like to urge Mr President to quickly suspend whatever he is doing in France and rush home to take responsibility by addressing these disturbing issues. That is the new Nigeria that the nation seeks.”