Nigeria Cannot Survive Under Weight of Persistent Killings, Insecurity — Peter Obi

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has lamented that Nigeria is deteriorating and in urgent need of capable leadership to rescue it from its current state.

Obi made this known in a statement shared via his verified X handle on Tuesday while reacting to the escalating insecurity across the country.

The former Anambra State governor expressed concern over what he described as a growing disregard for human life, noting that citizens are increasingly forced to live in fear as the government continues to fall short in its responsibility to protect lives and property.

He said, “We are fast becoming a nation where human life is treated as expendable, where citizens live in fear, and where the basic duty of government, to protect lives and property, is repeatedly neglected.

“11 innocent Nigerians were killed in Katsina State. 7 more in Benue State. 23 in Adamawa State in just one day. An entire family was brutally murdered in Plateau State. 24 children were abducted from an orphanage in Kogi State, and 10 more children were taken in Kaduna State, all within 48 hours.

“These are not mere statistics; they are our fellow Nigerians, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, whose lives have been brutally cut short or violently disrupted.

“This cannot continue. A nation cannot develop under the weight of such persistent insecurity and human tragedy. The normalisation of these horrors is itself a crisis. We must ask, with all sense of urgency and responsibility: where is the leadership? Where is the coordination, the competence, and the compassion required to confront this menace decisively?

“My heart goes out to all the grieving families across these states. I pray for divine comfort for those who have lost loved ones and for the safe and immediate return of all abducted children.”