{"id":124294,"date":"2025-12-09T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=124294"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:44:28","slug":"benin-coup-intervention-replicate-swift-response-on-insecurity-adc-charges-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/benin-coup-intervention-replicate-swift-response-on-insecurity-adc-charges-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin Coup Intervention: Replicate swift response on insecurity, ADC charges 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;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has praised the Federal Government\u2019s rapid response to the foiled coup attempt in the Benin Republic but accused President Bola Tinubu of applying double standards by failing to show the same urgency in tackling banditry, terrorism and kidnapping ravaging Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued on Monday by ADCs National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party said the speed with which Nigeria mobilised for Benin \u201cthrows into sharp relief the slow, haphazard and often incompetent response to the insecurity that has turned many Nigerian communities into killing fields.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the government can act decisively across the border, why has it demonstrated such outrageous incompetence in dealing with domestic insecurity?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA government that can move swiftly abroad must act decisively at home. The defence of democracy begins with protecting Nigerian lives, not with photo-ops in Cotonou\u201d \u201d the ADC demanded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition party also questioned the legality of the intervention, reminding President Tinubu that Section 5(4) of the 1999 Constitution requires National Assembly ratification for any deployment of Nigerian troops outside the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile the action may have been expedient, it must still be subjected to parliamentary approval,\u201d the statement stressed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ADC further accused the government of selective activism, pointing to its \u201chesitation\u201d during the 2022 Guinea-Bissau crisis when former President Goodluck Jonathan was briefly trapped.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat delay stands in sharp contrast to yesterday\u2019s urgency,\u201d the party noted, adding that the inconsistency \u201cgives credence to allegations that the Benin operation was at the behest of a more powerful foreign country.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While condemning military coups in principle, the ADC insisted that the surest bulwark against democratic reversal in West Africa is good governance at home.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe best safeguard against military adventurism is for elected governments to make democracy meaningful by improving livelihoods, restoring security and tolerating opposition,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition party\u2019s statement comes amid growing public frustration over persistent mass abductions, farmer-herder clashes and banditry in the North-West and North-Central zones, even as Nigeria positions itself as the regional policeman following the swift deployment of troops and intelligence assets to stabilise Benin after Thursday\u2019s botched putsch.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has praised the Federal Government\u2019s rapid response to the foiled coup attempt in the Benin Republic but accused President Bola Tinubu of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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