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ADC says Nigeria cannot claim global leadership while citizens are massacred.
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Over 10,000 killed since 2024, villages in Zamfara and Katsina reduced to killing fields.
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President absent at NDA commissioning, accused of misplaced priorities.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s demand for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council as laughable.
It insisted that a government incapable of securing its own citizens cannot expect to be trusted with global security responsibilities.
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In a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC accused the administration of “tragic indifference” to bloodshed across Nigeria, citing repeated mass killings in Zamfara and Katsina States.
The statement said: “Only last Friday, gunmen attacked a mosque in Yandoto village, Zamfara State, massacring worshippers while abducting several others.
“In just two months, more than 140 Nigerians have been murdered in Katsina and Zamfara alone. Amnesty International reported over 10,000 lives lost to armed groups as of May 2025. These are not numbers—they were human beings.”
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The opposition party said Nigeria’s territorial integrity is being eroded, with armed gangs extorting farmers, collecting taxes, and effectively running parallel governments in parts of the North-West.
ADC also slammed President Tinubu for failing to attend the passing-out parade of 874 officers at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna, accusing him of preferring to commission the renovated National Arts Theater in Lagos.
“What this signals is that this administration is plagued by misplaced priorities. The President has become a passive spectator while villages burn and prayers end in gunfire,” the party charged.
The ADC demanded an immediate state of emergency in Zamfara State, warning that Nigeria’s calls for global recognition will remain hollow until it demonstrates the capacity and willingness to protect its own people.
