Obi mourn killings across the country, says Nigeria a decaying nation crying for leadership

ADC chieftain and Presidential hopeful, Peter Obi on Tuesday decried the senseless killings by bandits across the states in the last 48 hours.

“From the reported killings in Katsina, Adamawa, Kaduna and Benue States, to the gruesome murder of an entire family in Plateau State, and the heartbreaking abduction of innocent children in Kogi State, one of the incidents involves children conveying their mother’s dead body for burial. Nigeria is bleeding”, the former Anambra state governor wrote on X [formerly known as Twitter].

“We are fast becoming a nation where human life is treated as expendable, where citizens live in fear, and where the basic duty of government, to protect lives and property, is repeatedly neglected”, the statement further stated.

While praying for divine comfort for those who have lost loved ones and for the safe and immediate return of all abducted children, he noted that a nation cannot develop under the weight of such persistent insecurity and human tragedy as the normalisation of these horrors is itself a crisis.

Obi’s full statement on X is published below…

A decaying Nation Crying for Leadership.

What we have witnessed across our country in just the past 48 hours is not only tragic, it is utterly unacceptable and a damning indictment of our collective failure of leadership.

From the reported killings in Katsina, Adamawa, Kaduna and Benue States, to the gruesome murder of an entire family in Plateau State, and the heartbreaking abduction of innocent children in Kogi State, one of the incidents involves children conveying their mother’s dead body for burial. Nigeria is bleeding.

We are fast becoming a nation where human life is treated as expendable, where citizens live in fear, and where the basic duty of government, to protect lives and property, is repeatedly neglected.

11 innocent Nigerians were killed in Katsina State. 7 more in Benue State. 23 in Adamawa State in just one day. An entire family was brutally murdered in Plateau State. 24 children were abducted from an orphanage in Kogi State, and 10 more children were taken in Kaduna State, all within 48 hours.

These are not mere statistics; they are our fellow Nigerians, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, whose lives have been brutally cut short or violently disrupted.

This cannot continue. A nation cannot develop under the weight of such persistent insecurity and human tragedy. The normalisation of these horrors is itself a crisis. We must ask, with all sense of urgency and responsibility: where is the leadership? Where is the coordination, the competence, and the compassion required to confront this menace decisively?

My heart goes out to all the grieving families across these states. I pray for divine comfort for those who have lost loved ones and for the safe and immediate return of all abducted children.

A New Nigeria is not just a slogan; it has become an urgent necessity.

A New Nigeria is Possible. -PO