By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has accused President Bola Tinubu of becoming ‘a professional statement-maker’ on insecurity, demanding timelines and regular updates on efforts to rescue 176 residents of Woro community in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State who have remained in captivity since they were abducted on February 3, 2026. For the ADC, the issue is not that some abductees have been rescued. It is that families whose relatives have spent months in captivity say they are still waiting for answers.
The party argued that the government cannot celebrate one rescue while leaving other victims wondering whether they have been forgotten, insisting that every Nigerian life deserves the same urgency and attention. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the opposition party linked its concerns to Friday’s peaceful protest by Kaiama residents over the fate of the 176 abductees, saying recent attacks across Kwara, Zamfara, Benue, Kebbi, and Borno states showed that insecurity remained a national emergency rather than isolated incidents. “On one of the defining challenges of this government, the president is increasingly seen as a professional statement-maker, while communities continue to bury their dead, search for the missing, and wait for rescues that never seem to come,” Abdullahi said.
The party said President Tinubu’s public celebration of the recent rescue of abductees in Oyo State had inevitably triggered fresh questions about the fate of hundreds of other Nigerians still being held by kidnappers and insurgents across the country. According to the ADC, “Every successful rescue of abducted Nigerians deserves to be celebrated. But the president must ensure that his actions do not create the impression that the value of a Nigerian life depends on where the victim comes from or whether the tragedy attracts national headlines.
Leadership demands equal compassion for every citizen.” The party said residents of Kaiama Local Government Area took to the streets on Friday, July 24, in a peaceful protest after more than 170 days without any word on their abducted relatives, describing the demonstration as the desperate cry of families who feared they had been abandoned. It was the cry of citizens who fear that their loved ones have been forgotten,” t…
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