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By Myke Agunwa
As the killing of innocent citizens in Zamfara, Plateau and Benue states continues unabated, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has called on President Bola Tinubu who is on vacation in far away France to come home and protect the tragedy.
Obi made the appeal on Wednesday in a statement posted via his official X account two days after he was denied access to Benue State to commiserate with persons living in IDP camps and also visit a nursing school.
Obi alarmed that the President’s continued stay in a foreign land will further exacerbate the rising wave of killings in the country.
He 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 two 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.”