{"id":117491,"date":"2025-04-16T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=117491"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:52:27","slug":"nigerians-are-dying-return-from-france-obi-begs-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigerians-are-dying-return-from-france-obi-begs-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Are Dying, Return from France, Obi Begs Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obi alarmed that the President\u2019s continued stay in a foreign land will further exacerbate the rising wave of killings in the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cI am compelled at this time in our lives as a nation to call on our retreating President\u2019s 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn 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\u2019s headquarters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI, 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. 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