‘Deploy your famed political mastery to end insecurity in Nigeria’, PDP tells Tinubu, security agencies 

• Says too many Nigerians are dieing

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

Disturbed by the rate at which Nigerians are being killed, a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Dr Tanimu Turaki has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deploy his famed political ‘mastery’ to provide a solution to the security of lives and property in the country.

The party made the appeal in a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong in Abuja in reaction to the just-released Global Terrorism Index 2026 by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

The opposition party similarly called on the President and the entire security hierarchy to stop performing reactive responses that have defined post-attack communications in the country.

Rather, the factional PDP charged the President and the nation’s security agencies to adopt a whole-of-society approach towards solving insecurity.

The PDP urged them to evolve programmes and policies capable of delivering negative peace (cessation of attacks and incidents) immediately and providing the basis for positive peace (voluntary and unforced harmonious co-existence).

The statement by Ememobong reads, “The just-released Global Terrorism Index 2026 by the Institute for Economics and Peace indicates that our country, under the leadership of the APC-led Government, has infamously earned a fourth position in the world on the impact of terrorism survey.

“Nigeria and four other countries accounted for almost seventy percent of deaths from terrorism.

Nigeria also had one of the two largest increases in deaths from terrorism.

“While this report is not surprising to Nigerians, it is most painful that people who promised and were elected and appointed to secure our country are wining, dining, and dancing in a faraway land, whilst terrorists are killing and kidnapping citizens rampantly.

“This global report aligns with the daily lived reality of Nigerians, who are now more insecure than they have ever been in this Fourth Republic.

“In fact, under President Tinubu’s watch, insecurity has not just become very lucrative, it has attained a trillion-naira economy status.

“We call on the President and the entire security hierarchy to stop performing reactive responses that have defined post-attack communications and rather adopt a whole-of-society approach towards solving insecurity.

“Furthermore, they should evolve programmes and policies capable of delivering negative peace (cessation of attacks and incidents) immediately and providing the basis for positive peace (voluntary and unforced harmonious co-existence).

“It needs reminding that the primary duty of every Government is the protection of lives and property-a task that this administration has consistently failed glaringly.

“We appeal to the President to deploy his famed political ‘mastery’ to provide a solution to the security of lives and property. Nigerians are tired of being killed for no reason”, the PDP’s statement concluded.