African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to immediately rescue victims of the Oyo abduction or admit failure.
In a statement by his spokesman, Phrank Shaibu, the former Vice President demanded that Tinubu immediately mobilise all security and intelligence agencies to secure the unconditional release of the victims.
He also described the reported dispatch of government officials bearing bags of rice and other palliatives to the families of victims as cruel, morally bankrupt, and an open confession of failure.
“You either secure their release or admit your failure as a leader. The cruelty of such a response is difficult to comprehend. Parents whose children have been torn from their arms are not asking for rice.
“Mothers who do not know whether their children are hungry, sick, traumatised, or even alive are not demanding palliatives. Fathers who wake up every morning praying for a phone call announcing the safe return of their children are not looking for handouts.
“What these families need is action. What they need is leadership. What they need is a government capable of rescuing their children and bringing the criminals responsible to justice,” he said.
The former Vice President said the abduction was yet another tragic reminder that under the Tinubu administration, insecurity had ceased to be an emergency and has become a way of life.
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