The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP for 2023, Peter Obi, has denounced the ongoing acts of terrorism in Nigeria and emphasized that the nation is losing its economic vitality due to instability.
The fact that terrorist attacks happen in Nigeria daily, according to Obi, is concerning.
He was responding to the kidnapping of women and children in Borno State and the approximately fifty deaths in the Ukum region of Benue State.
Posting on X, Obi wrote: “Once again, Nigerians are besieged by reports of terror attacks in different parts of the country.
“While about 50 persons, including a family of seven, were reportedly killed in a militia gang war in the Ukum area of Benue State, over 100 internally displaced persons, mostly women, were reported to have been abducted in by terrorists in Borno State.
“Aside from the sad and painful loss of precious human lives to these terror attacks, our dear nation has continued to lose its economic and social life to insecurity.
“More worrisome is that these attacks now occur almost daily. We must not allow our dear nation to continue this dangerous slide into anarchy. I was equally shocked to read that farmers in Northern Nigeria now pay bandits up to N100,000 for permission to farm or risk being attacked.”
