Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare, challenged Bola Tinubu to stop playing ostrich and tackle the insecurity challenges facing the country.
Bakare also urged Tinubu to restructure the country’s security architecture.
Under Tinubu’s Watch, Level of Insecurity Have Worsened as Islamic Terrorists Brazenly Dare Nigerian State.
In his Speaking on the state of the nation speech titled ‘The Darkness Before Dawn’, the fiery televangelist expressed worry that Nigeria has found itself in the centre of an unfolding storm, lamenting that “the level of insecurity seems to have worsened in response to this global focus on Nigeria as terrorists and bandits brazenly dare the Nigerian state.”
Bakare, who urged the President not to prioritise politics with 2027, urged him to “embark on the holistic reform of the security and governance framework and address the Nigeria Question.
He said: “Today, President Bola Tinubu stands at the threshold of history. The president has a choice: either to embark on the holistic reform of the security and governance framework and address the Nigeria Question, or, like his predecessors, to prioritise politics with 2027 in view, to restrain his actions, to administer piecemeal or superficial interventions, and to approach the situation in fits and starts.
“While we acknowledge the ongoing efforts of the president to address the situation—from the declaration of emergency on security to the mass recruitment into the police force—we challenge the president, who, prior to his presidency, was an advocate of geopolitical restructuring, to rise up to the occasion and take the bull by the horns.”
In addition, he said: “Our country has found itself in the centre of an unfolding storm. It began with the announcement by President Donald Trump of the United States, redesignating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern over allegations of a government-tolerated killing of Christians. The US president’s subsequent threat to come into our country “guns-a-blazing”, to undertake what he described as a “fast, vicious and sweet” attack on terrorists, has jolted a hitherto sleeping giant into sudden frenzy.
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Within the same period, the existential dangers that once lurked beneath the surface of our national life are now breaking through, demanding urgent attention even as terrorists intensify their threats and attacks against the Nigerian state.”
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