“This is no longer just bad governance; it is a total structural collapse. President Tinubu has proven entirely too weak, too slow, and too detached to confront the ruthless cartels terrorizing this nation”
The tragic and horrific death of Retired Major General Rabe Abubakar inside a bandits’ den is not a tragedy to be quietly mourned. It is a fierce, damning indictment of a collapsed state. It is the final proof that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria has degenerated into a lawless territory where sovereign authority has been completely surrendered to criminals.
When a nation cannot protect the very men who spent their lives defending it, that nation has ceased to exist in any functional capacity.
The facts are as cold as they are terrifying. A decorated Army General was abducted from his homeland, dragged into the forest, and left to perish in captivity. While this national humiliation unfolded, the Commander-in-Chief and his administration looked on in absolute, frozen impotence. If a towering military elite can be picked off like a helpless civilian and left to die, what hope is left for the ordinary, unarmed Nigerian on the street?
The current administration’s utter lack of resolve exposes a profound crisis of leadership. Let us not mince words: true leadership demands fierce, uncompromising action to protect state authority.
Contrast this current paralysis with our political history. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, love him or hate him, understood the weight of sovereign command. Faced with a similar assault on the armed forces, an Obasanjo administration would have mobilized the full, crushing weight of the military. It would have leveled an entire community if necessary to enforce state power and rescue a General.
Look across the Atlantic. The United States will deploy elite special forces, spend millions of dollars, and cross international borders to rescue a single, lowest-ranking private. They do this because they understand a fundamental truth: the life of a soldier is the honor of the state.
Yet, in Tinubu’s Nigeria, a whole General is treated as collateral damage.
This is no longer just bad governance; it is a total structural collapse. President Tinubu has proven entirely too weak, too slow, and too detached to confront the ruthless cartels terrorizing this nation. The presidency completely lacks the vigor, urgency, and command capability required to navigate a country out of an existential security crisis.
We cannot reward historic failure with political continuity. A leadership that presides over the slaughter of its own military commanders inside enemy dens has forfeited its right to govern. President Tinubu and the APC have failed their most basic constitutional duty to secure the homeland.
For the sake of Nigeria’s survival, this frail, ineffective administration must not be given a second tenure. The collapse must stop here.
