Why Tinubu Is Incapable Of Solving Nigeria’s Security Problems – Kenneth Okonkwo

African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo has criticized President Bola Tinubu for not calling off his state visit to the United Kingdom.

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, he questioned why Tinubu continued on his trip despite the terrorist attacks in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Okonkwo accused Tinubu of dancing on the graves of Nigerians and soldiers killed in terror attacks by making the trip to London.

According to the lawyer, by cancelling the trip, Tinubu would have passed a message to the world that he respected the victims of the terror attack.

“It’s about telling the world that you prefer to respect the blood of your martyrs to riding on their blood and dancing on their graves in the United Kingdom.

“That red carpet there is the blood of the martyrs that Tinubu is treading upon. He should have cancelled it (UK Visit), cancelled it without equivocation,” Okonkwo said.

While Tinubu made the trip to the UK on Tuesday alongside the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, Vice President Kashim Shettima was in Anambra State to attend the second-term swearing-in ceremony of Governor Chukwuma Soludo, a situation Okonkwo said was embarrassing.

“Why go with your minister of defence? Why would the vice president be celebrating in Anambra State? I can’t believe it, I feel embarrassed. You don’t understand that the death of one military man is a hit to a nation because their morale is boosted when you at least recognise.

“As they are going to fight, it can be any of them, so they derive their morale from how you treat the one that has fallen,” he said.

The ADC chieftain also accused the Tinubu-led administration of corruption, saying it politicises everything, including security.

He maintained that Tinubu was not capable of solving the security problems bedevilling the country.

“I was in your station the early days of Tinubu, and I told you that state police will not come, that Tinubu will continue to play the politics of it, and I tell you that Tinubu is incapable of solving the security problems, and that is why it is metastasising all over the nation.

“So he is incapable, why? You don’t have enough boots on the ground, you have a lot of ungoverned spaces, hunger and hardship are increasing, suffering of people is increasing, they are easy to be recruited, criminality is not being punished,” Okonkwo added.