Has Tinubu been told we’re returning to Sodom?

The nation's heartbeats have quickened with fear, a palpable anxiety fueled by the alarming rise of terror across Nigeria. While ordinary citizens live in dread of unseen dangers, those in government houses reportedly offer only commentary and lamentations after each deadly strike. The author expresses strong doubt that President Bola Tinubu is fully informed of the relentless evils plaguing the nation.

Recent events underscore this concern: scores of pupils, including a toddler, and their teachers were abducted in Oyo State, while dozens of young minds were taken from schools in Borno State. In Kwara State, three people were killed and over a dozen worshippers abducted for attending Sunday service. These incidents, the article argues, demonstrate a government out of touch with the reality of widespread insecurity.

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I have no doubt hiding in any part of my mind that President Bola Tinubu has not been informed of the evils that have continued to befall the nation without ceasing.

If President Tinubu were aware of the debilitating fear gripping the country, particularly the South-West, the author contends, he would have halted the ill-timed party primaries. Instead, the focus remained on political maneuvering while the nation grappled with escalating violence. The article calls for an emergency summit involving all stakeholders to devise strategies against terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and herdsmen.

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If BAT had been informed early enough of the debilitating fear pervading the land, especially the relatively peaceful South-West, he would have prevailed on his party, the All Progressives Congress, to put on hold its ill-timed primaries while he urgently summons the executive, the National Assembly, the security agencies, the opposition parties, religious hierarchy and traditional leaders to an emergency summit to fashion out all-encompassing strategies to flush out deranged characters populating the landscape of the country but addressing themselves nicely as terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, killer herdsmen and other perennial criminals.

The author criticizes the ruling All Progressives Congress's primaries as insensitive and a display of flawed priorities. The chokehold of killers and mass abductors this year alone, the piece argues, warrants a nationwide state of emergency. This would sideline frivolous activities like party primaries and allow all agencies to declare war on terrorists and their sponsors.

Adding to the troubling landscape, the article touches upon reports of internal strife within the Progressive Governors’ Forum. It mentions credible sources suggesting that a recent attempted overthrow of the forum's chairman was linked to the alleged mishandling of N800 million by the governors. This internal political drama, occurring amidst national security crises, further highlights a disconnect between governance and public welfare.

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The chokehold by which killers and mass abductors have held the nation by the jugular this year alone is enough to attract a nationwide state of emergency, confine frivolities like party primaries and fruitless talk shops to the backyard, while all agencies intentionally declare war on terrorists, jihadists, killers, kidnappers and their sponsors.