Apparently unsettled by the growing wave of avoidable killings and kidnappings across the country, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye appears to have cast away his cloak of ambivalence on serious national issues particularly with regards to the Tinubu presidency.
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- Enoch Adeboye reportedly urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack security chiefs if the country’s security situation does not improve within 90 days.
- The article argues that insecurity, including killings and kidnappings across Nigeria, has worsened and requires urgent government action.
- The writer maintains that ultimate responsibility for national security lies with the President as Commander-in-Chief, not just the service chiefs.
- The article criticizes Tinubu’s handling of major security crises in Benue, Plateau, and Oyo states, describing his response as slow and inadequate.
- It concludes that Nigerians expect stronger leadership, greater empathy for victims, and decisive action to address the country’s security challenges.
In a veiled, but calculated dig at the president, Daddy G.O. as he is famously called by members of his congregation asked Tinubu, whom he acknowledged as his in-law to sack the service chiefs if after three months the security situation in the country did not improve.
In recent time, Adeboye has faced relentless backlash from many concerned Nigerians over his deafening silence on the worsening socio-political and economic situation in the country under the Tinubu presidency, contrasting the posture with his vocal criticism against the administration of then President Goodluck Jonathan.
The cleric was quoted to have attributed the seeming intractable terrorist activities and national challenges to spiritual forces, a move critics interpreted as a subtle attempt to exonerate the Tinubu administration.
However, the recent kidnap of little school children and their teachers in Oyo State appeared to have challenged the conscience of the cleric, and for the first time he spoke like a concerned Nigerian, asking the president to sack the service chiefs if they can’t deliver in 90 days.
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But with the audacity and rate at which the terrorists are rampaging and ravaging communities across the country,leaving in their trail empty villages, 90 days should be considered too much of a luxury to be given to the service chiefs to continue to experiment with the lives of innocent Nigerians before they are given the boot.
But come to think of it, when the football players continue to post poor results consistently, it is the coach that gets fired and not the players. The players play according to the tactics and instructions from the coach and he takes credits when the team wins trophies and gets the boot when otherwise.
In the Nigeria situation, there is a Commander -in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the federation who also swore to an oath to protect the lives and properties of all Nigerian citizens. He is like the coach, while the service chiefs are the players.The service chiefs take directives and orders from him, and when they under perform consistently as is the case with the pervasive killings and kidnappings, it is the Commander -in-Chief who should get fired. In this case, President Bola Tinubu should resign. That was simply the homily delivered by Daddy G.O.
President Tinubu has indeed shown a marked detachment from the sorrow and pain many Nigerian communities are facing arising from the wanton killings and terrorism going on in the country. Take what happened when he visited Benue State after the Yelwata killings. It took him days after the incident before he was persuaded or convinced to visit the victims.
When he finally arrived Benue, he aborted the proposed trip to Yelwata on the excuse that the road to the community was bad. A president who should have a chopper at his beck and call to fly him to any location that his well fortified SUV cannot take him to. There is even an air force base in Makurdi that could have been asked to provide a suitable aircraft to convey the president to his desired destination. But alas, our president abandoned the people when they needed him most and flew back to Abuja.
When another massacre took place in Plateau, the president visited days after the horrible incident. But as usual, he came up with his choreographed alibi: the airport lighting system was bad for him to fly at night should he proceed to the IDP camp to sympathize with the victims, and so he aborted the trip.
Instead he ordered that the beleaguered victims should be brought to the airport to enable him to address them. So the people were herded into buses and taken to the airport to see a president who had no succour to offer nor even to promise. One may even ask, why didn’t the president leave Abuja on time considering the seriousness and importance of his mission to Plateau to commiserate with his subjects who have lost loved ones and their livelihoods?
Again, Oyo happened, the worst of it, now involving infants; children in the kindergarten whisked away on their school uniforms. In a saner clime, a caring leader should have declared a national emergency and put on ashes to demonstrate the gravity of what has befallen the nation.
But in unspeakable absurdity, all eyes were on 2027 as president Tinubu continues to show that he has sacrificed the wellbeing of over 200 million Nigerians for his personal political ambition!
There was nothing the president did differently to tell the world that there had been a national emergency in the country as he marshalled his foot soldiers to the field to organize primaries that were designed to return him to office willy-nilly.
The same insensitivity was displayed as the president relocated to Lagos to CELEBRATE Sallah while little children are abandoned in the forest to the mercy of wild beasts. A caring leader ready to live by example would have cancelled this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration for himself and remained in Abuja to reflect the mood of the nation.
But the president was seen clinging glasses with visitors, especially members of the errant National Assembly who paid him Sallah homage at his Bourdilon Lagos home.
One wonders the message Tinubu is planning to take to Nigerians as campaign for next year’s presidential election begins very soon. What will he for instance tell the people of Benue, Borno,Plateau, Oyo, Zamfara, Katsina,Kaduna and others whose people are being slaughtered on daily basis on account of his failure to ensure their security to be able to move them to walk to the polling boot to cast a vote for him?
