Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2027 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, critiqued the President Bola Tinubu administration’s handling of insecurity, arguing that while terrorists and bandits continuously adapt their tactics, the Nigerian government has failed to learn from past attacks and reform its counterterrorism strategy.
Atiku said the steady spread of terrorism, banditry and kidnapping beyond their traditional strongholds in northern Nigeria to other parts of the country was evidence that the nation’s security framework was failing to keep pace with evolving threats.
“The terrorists are learning from every attack. They study their successes and failures. They refine their tactics. They identify vulnerabilities. They adapt and strike again,” Atiku said in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr Phrank Shaibu.
According to him, “The question Nigerians must ask is simple: Why isn’t the government doing the same?”
The ADC chieftain warned that Nigeria could no longer afford what he described as a “business-as-usual” approach to terrorism, insisting that the country’s security architecture requires urgent restructuring to address increasingly sophisticated and geographically dispersed security threats.
