APM Dares Tinubu, Defence Minister: Travel Without Escorts If Security Is Fine
Naija, make we talk true. The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) don throw down the gauntlet. If President Bola Tinubu and Defence Minister General Christopher Musa (retd.) really believe say security don better, then make them prove am. Travel by road. No escorts. No convoys. Just pure, unaided confidence.
The party say the security crisis no be something wey dem fit measure with official briefings or statistics. The real measure na the fear wey dey catch person when dem wan travel by road. Na the empty seat for home after abduction. Na the family wey dey wait for news from person wey never return.
For a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Abubakar Yusuf, the APM accuse the Tinubu administration of living in denial over worsening insecurity. Dem fault Musa for claiming say the country's security situation don improve.
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The APM say the minister's claim na direct contradiction of the 2026 Global Terrorism Index (GTI). According to the report, Nigeria rank as the fourth most insecure country for the whole world. That na climb from sixth position for the 2025 index. No be improvement. Na regression.
The comments by the minister further expose the Tinubu administration's insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians, who bear the pain of the daily killings, maiming, rape, abduction for ransom, and incarceration by bandits in dehumanizing conditions in various parts of the nation.
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The party no mince words. Dem allege say more than 600,000 Nigerians don lose their lives and no fewer than 2.2 million people, including women and children, don suffer abduction during the Tinubu presidency.
Just last week, dem report say about 600 people from Dekera, Gidan-Zana and Sabon Gida villages for Niger State dem carry. Most of those taken na women, children and elderly people. Dem still dey captivity.
The APM also cite figures from SBM Intelligence. According to the data, kidnapping for ransom don become a highly monetised industry. More than N7.78 billion allegedly don change hands as ransom between July 2025 and June 2026.
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Wetin dey pain pass? The party say while families dey sorrow across the country, the Tinubu administration dey wave off abduction, an act of terrorism, as if na 'family affair.'
The APM argue say the administration either don disconnect from the realities facing Nigerians, or dem deliberately dey try to manipulate public perception by denying the scale of the crisis.
Our party is disturbed that the administration is either dangerously disconnected from reality or is deliberately attempting to manipulate public perception by denying the actual situation in the country.
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The party warn say Nigeria no fit afford another four years under what dem call an 'ineffective administration.' But dem no just dey complain. Dem dey offer solution.
The APM urge Nigerians not to despair. Instead, dem say make we support their presidential candidate, Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde. According to the party, he get a blueprint wey go tackle insecurity and other challenges wey dey face the nation.
The APM, however, urges Nigerians not to despair but to remain steadfast in their resolve to vote for our presidential candidate, the people's candidate, Engr. Seyi Makinde, who is ready with a blueprint that will address the insecurity and other challenges brought upon our nation by the Tinubu-led administration.
This one na challenge wey go stand. If security don truly improve, why fear? Make dem show us. But if na talk talk, then the people know say the reality for ground no match the story dem dey tell. Naija eyes dey open. We dey watch.