President Tinubu Seeking Permanent Seat For Nigeria On UN Security Council ‘Misplaced Priority’-ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Sunday submitted that the President Bola Tinubu administration has neglected crucial matters to seek a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the country describing this as a misplaced priority.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that spokesman for the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who said this in a statement on Sunday, argued that President Bola Tinubu cannot push for expanded global roles while allegedly neglecting the primary duty of safeguarding lives and property of the nation’s citizens.

Although the country had before now sought to be a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, Vice President Kashim Shettima, who represented President Bola Tinubu, had again, made the demand at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York.

‘The African Democratic Congress finds it absurd that the Tinubu administration could be requesting a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council even as bandits slaughter Nigerians at home and take control of some of the nation’s territories. We, however, wonder how a government that cannot ensure peace or security at home could demand a seat at the table where global security is negotiated and expect to be taken seriously.

Only last Friday, gunmen, yet again, attacked a mosque in Yandoto village, Zamfara State, and massacred worshippers while abducting several others. Only a few weeks ago, in the same Zamfara State, no fewer than 45 Nigerians were killed, with entire villages sacked and dozens abducted.

This was after a similar attack in Katsina State had left about 47 dead and several more injured or taken hostage. In just two months, more than 140 Nigerians have been murdered in Katsina and Zamfara alone. As of May 2025, Amnesty International reported over 10,000 lives lost in Nigeria to attacks by various armed groups. These are not numbers, they were human beings, they were Nigerians that this administration had promised a renewed hope.

Only last month, the ADC alerted the public that armed gangs in Zamfara State had extorted over N56 million from farmers as a precondition to access their farmlands. Indeed, with the level of brigandage going on in that state, we are compelled to ask whether Zamfara is still part of Nigeria. Because when non-state actors collect taxes, control access to farms, and kill with impunity, they are no longer mere criminals, they are a parallel government’ the party said.

ADC also said the current administration at the federal level has already felt overwhelmed, lost control and unable to provide solutions to the challenges facing the nation.

‘What is happening is not a mere failure of security. It is clear evidence, written in blood and piles of innocent bodies, of a government that has lost control. In any serious country, these situations would have triggered resignations, emergency meetings, and a strategic overhaul. Here, it only receives routine condolence tweets from presidential propagandists.

 This is why we find it patently absurd that the same administration, under whose watch Nigerians are being massacred without let or hindrance, and under whose watch sundry bandits have taken control of parts of the nation’s territory, could stand before the world and ask to be admitted to the highest level of security conversations in the world.

Fortunately, the rest of the world can see beyond the fine speeches in New York, they see that parts of our country have turned into killing fields, they see that in our country, lives could be brutish, nasty, and short.

Nigeria’s request for a Security Council seat would indeed remain laughable until our government demonstrates both the capacity and the willingness to secure the lives of its own people.

Leadership on the global stage must begin with responsibility at home. You cannot be asking to be admitted to the club of those who take the lives of their citizens seriously, while the very land you govern is soaked with the blood of the very people you have sworn to protect while you do nothing.

 The Nigerian Defence Academy held the passing-out parade and commissioning of 874 officers into the military last Saturday, but the Commander-in-Chief was once again, missing in action.

With the dire security situation in the country, we would have expected the President to seize the occasion to inspire and urge the new officers to give their best in protecting the country and its people.

We would have expected the President to seize the opportunity to be in Kaduna, at the apex military training institution in the country and reassure the people of northern Nigeria of his commitment to protect them and their children, to give hope to Zamfara and Katsina, as well as other northern states under siege. But no, instead, the Commander-in-Chief chose to travel to his beloved Lagos to inaugurate the renovation of the National Arts Theatre.

What all this signals is that this administration is plagued by misplaced priorities. The President has become a passive spectator, watching from a safe distance, while villages burn and prayers end in gunfire.

With its tragic indifference, this administration could indeed end up creating the dangerous perception that some lives in Nigeria matter less than others.

A President that was quick to declare a state of emergency over a political crisis in Rivers but has nothing to say about the existential crisis in Zamfara and Katsina cannot claim to believe that all lives matter’ the party added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you