…Slams President, APC over failure to guard Nigerians
…Queries N6.5tr Defence Spending, 100,000 Deaths
By John Alechenu, Abuja
The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Interim Nationwide Working Committee of the Labour Celebration (LP) has referred to as on President Bola Tinubu to both stay as much as his constitutional obligation of defending the lives and property of Nigerians or step down from workplace.
The get together accused the President and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of failing on this basic accountability regardless of allocating over N6.5 trillion and a number of other billions of U.S. {dollars} to defence spending within the final decade.
Interim Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the get together, Tony Akeni, acknowledged this in Abuja on Thursday.
He stated the present safety disaster is a cumulative failure of each the APC and the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), which held energy earlier than 2015, insisting that neither get together might absolve itself of blame.
In line with Akeni: “The principal perform of presidency is the safety of lives and property. If President Tinubu can not ship this, he ought to sack Nuhu Ribadu, reconfigure the armed companies, step up his safety governance, or do Nigerians a patriotic favour by sacking himself.”
He recalled that between 2006 and 2021 alone, 50,252 Nigerians have been killed in 2,288 terrorist assaults, whereas 51,425 others died from kidnappings, robberies, rapes, police brutality, extra-judicial killings, and different violent crimes—a mixed complete of 101,677 deaths, averaging 57 violent deaths each day.
“Extra Safety Budgets, Extra Insecurity”
The LP spokesperson described as paradoxical the pattern the place insecurity worsens as safety budgets enhance.
“Between 2016 and 2022, the APC-led administration below Muhammadu Buhari spent $9.9 billion on safety. The defence finances rose from $2.4 billion in 2020 to $4.5 billion. In 2025, Tinubu elevated it to an all-time excessive of ₦6.57 trillion.
“In the identical interval, the Nigeria Police finances grew from ₦783 billion in 2022 to ₦969.6 billion in 2024. But killings and abductions proceed unabated, as seen in final Tuesday’s mosque bloodbath in Katsina and related incidents in Plateau, Benue and different components of the North,” he stated.
“APC, a Authorities of Condolence Delegations”
The get together accused each PDP and APC of diverting defence allocations into non-public pockets, pointing to the proliferation of personal estates, plazas, and luxurious properties owned by public officers in Nigeria and overseas.
“The loss of life toll in Nigeria immediately rivals or exceeds that of nations in full-blown battle,” Akeni added.
The Labour Celebration expressed condolences to households of victims of the Katsina mosque bloodbath and mass abduction in Malumfashi Native Authorities, the place 30 worshippers have been gunned down throughout morning prayers, whereas over 20 others have been burnt alive of their houses.
It additionally commiserated with the Appearing Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Faruk Lawal Jobe, describing the killings as “one other tragic reminder of the federal government’s failure to guard its residents.”
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