Presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi has called on Nigerian youths to take back their country, condemning what he described as a dangerous normalization of mass kidnappings under the current administration.
POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that there has been an escalation of insecurity across the country.
On May 15, 2026, coordinated school raids in Oriire, Oyo State, and Mussa town, Borno State, saw dozens of schoolchildren and teachers captured, with at least a teacher executed. Two days ago on June 3, 2026, heavily armed men raided Zamfara State University residences to abduct six students, while gunmen in Ibadan intercepted and kidnapped the younger sister of former Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, along with her 12-year-old twin sons.
Reacting to the wave of violence, Obi questioned why recent tragedies have failed to ignite the level of national and international outrage seen during the 2014 Chibok girls’ abduction, suggesting that
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