National Leader of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said President Bola Tinubu has lost control of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity, warning that the administration’s failure to address the crisis could lead to public rejection if urgent steps are not taken.
Speaking in an interview with ARISE News on Thursday, Baba-Ahmed said the country was experiencing a rapid deterioration in security, with violent attacks and kidnappings spreading across all regions.
“President Tinubu has no handle on escalating violence every part of Nigeria is now vulnerable to insecurity.
”In a civilised democracy, President Tinubu’s record on insecurity would have cost him his seat a long time ago.”
He accused the government of failing to confront the reality of the situation, insisting that insecurity had become widespread and largely unchecked.
“Every time children from generals to toddlers are stolen, every inch of Nigeria is now vulnerable to insecurity. Children, toddlers in school have been stolen.”
Baba-Ahmed said key actors in government appeared to be normalising the crisis rather than addressing it.
“Everything that needed to have been said by the media, by civil society, by everybody, except of course the National Assembly, Tinubu himself and his tiny circle of supporters appear to believe that this is a problem that we can live with, ” he added.
He further argued that the administration had failed in its primary duty of protecting lives and property.
“Now, President Tinubu has spectacularly failed to protect anybody. Again, like I said, every part of Nigeria is now vulnerable, ” he said.
Baba-Ahmed warned that the security situation could worsen if urgent intervention is not undertaken.
“We are in trouble. We haven’t been safe under him and we are likely to be even more exposed to criminality between now and the elections, ” he added.
The PRP leader said his party’s call for the president’s resignation was based on what it described as a national emergency rather than political considerations.
According to him, we said everything else. And we say this with all sense of responsibility. President Tinubu should resign.
He added that growing public frustration would eventually translate into political consequences for the administration.
“If we project what he’s doing, how he’s performing between now and the elections, we don’t even need to wait. Nigerians will reject him, ” he said.
Baba-Ahmed maintained that Nigeria had reached a critical point where leadership failure could no longer be ignored, saying insecurity had become the country’s most urgent challenge.
“What else is there? What else is there to say to President Tinubu and to Nigerians?
”I listened to your programme. You dwelt extensively on the escalation of these kidnappings and violent crimes all over the country, ” he said.
