By Desire Emmanuel
Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, on Monday, July 6, said he was shocked when he was told that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had not received a single call from President Bola Tinubu more than 50 days after the abduction that took place in Oriire Local Government Area of the state.
Obi said this in a post on his X handle, saying he got the information when he visited Ibadan, the state capital, last Friday and held a meeting with the governor.
Obi said: “During our two-hour meeting, I shared my experience in addressing insecurity as Governor of Anambra State. I recalled how President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Presidents Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan would personally call us several times whenever we faced major security challenges.
“But, to my utmost shock, I discovered that contrary to my assumption that they had been in regular communication over the matter, Governor Seyi Makinde had not received a single call from President Bola Tinubu.”
Obi said he recalled that when it took former President Jonathan over two weeks to call the Borno State governor during the abduction of Chibok girls, it was Tinubu that led a team of vocal critics who called for Jonathan’s immediate resignation, citing his delay in calling the state governor.
“Today, under President Tinubu, there have been more than 13 school kidnappings, yet the president has found it difficult to call the affected state’s chief executive after more than 50 days (over 7 weeks). This is outrageous. I suspect the same may also have been the case in other school kidnapping incidents.
“I cannot imagine any issue more important than the lives of our kidnapped children, their teachers, and the many other Nigerians being held captive across the country. It is now an indisputable fact that governance has completely collapsed under this administration.
“The situation reflects a total lack of capacity and compassion, compounded by glaring insensitivity,” Obi said.
He therefore urged Tinubu to either resign or abstain from seeking re-election “for the sake of our dear country.”
