The Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) has chided the presidential candidate of All Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, and National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for politicizing Nigeria’s security challenges.
The group tasked both presidential candidates to learn from politicians in the United States and Israel who buried their political interests and supported their governments in the heat of the 9/11 and the October 7, 2023 attacks by Al-Qaeda and Hamas on the US and Israel soil.
NEYGA spoke against comments by Atiku and Obi, in the wake of recent attacks by gunmen on schools in Oyo and Borno States resulting in the abduction of some pupils.
While Obi accused the Tinubu government of lacking the capacity to protect schoolchildren, thereby converting them into what he called “Pawns in Ransom Economy,” Atiku stated that the security challenges “makes a mockery of the so-called Safe Schools initiative.”
While noting that the primary responsibility of any government is the security and welfare for the governed, Atiku had said: “President Tinubu has no moral or political latitude to stay in Aso Villa a day longer if tens of hundreds of abducted citizens languish in captivity across the country,”
