By Hon. Kenneth Gbandi
Nigeria is bleeding, and the state is asleep at the wheel. From Ekiti to Agwara, from Kaduna to towns across the North and Central regions, a stark pattern emerges: attacks happen, citizens suffer, and the government looks the other way.
In the early hours of Sunday, February 1, 2026, Agwara town in Niger State came under a coordinated armed assault again on one of the states in the republic by non state actors acting with precision and impunity. Residents were terrorized, homes invaded, and lives once again shattered in the never ending Nigeria Nightmare. This is amidst reports of abductions in Kajuru LGA, Kaduna State and the initial attempt at cover-up, an effort to make colossal failure of Tinubu failed government on security.
This is more than incompetence. This is the abdication of the most sacred responsibility of any government: protecting life, property, and national sovereignty. When armed non-state actors roam freely, terrorize communities, and hold citizens hostage, the state has failed in its prime duty. Period.
The government’s response or lack thereof is predictable: spin, obfuscation, delayed action, cosmetic statements. While citizens mourn, political operatives polish the optics. Lives are expendable. Sovereignty is negotiable. Truth is optional.
This failure is systemic. Agwara was not an isolated incident it was another reminder of the state failure. Kajuru was not a glitch, it was a symptom of deliberate negligence associated with Tinubu Government. And yet, there is no emergency measures, no urgent strategy to reassure a bleeding nation.
In any functioning democracy, this level of failure would dominate headlines, compel resignations, and trigger emergency action at the highest levels. In Nigeria today, it passes as routine governance. This is why the APC must be voted out, not for politics, but for survival of a sinking Nation. Continuity under failure is not leadership; it is self-destruction.
Security is not a slogan. It is strategy, intelligence, political will, and respect for human life. When these are absent, the government forfeits legitimacy. The people cannot be asked to endure terror while the state performs as if everything is business as usual.
Agwara, Kajuru, and countless other communities across Nigeria are warning signs. They are evidence of a government that neglects its sacred duties, hides the truth, and abandons its citizens. The time for excuses has passed. The time for decisive action and decisive leadership is now. If we failed to kill insecurity with our votes in 2027, insecurity will kill the nation.
Nigeria’s survival depends on it, and history will not forgive those who continue to treat lives as collateral in the theater of politics.
Hon. Kenneth Gbandi, ADC European Diaspora Leader, Political Analyst & University of Hamburg-trained Peace and Security Expert
