African Democratic Congress (ADC) spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi has torn into President Bola Tinubu for leaving the country for Europe as security worries spiral, calling the timing “insensitive and alarming.”
In a Sunday post on X titled “PBAT’s Lack of Care Scary,” Abdullahi said Nigerians are still waiting for the President to acknowledge last week’s deadly bomb blast in Zamfara and to explain how a U.S. drone strike came to hit Nigerian soil. Instead, he said, the nation woke up to news that Tinubu had flown out.
“The country is still awaiting any word of reassurance from the President when news broke of his departure abroad. In the wake of yet another deadly bomb blast in Zamfara—an incident to which the President has remained silent; following an unprecedented foreign military attack on Nigerian soil that has sowed confusion and fear; with a worried nation looking up to its leader for assurance, the President instead chooses to leave the country. What a President,” Abdullahi wrote.
He argued that the silence, followed by the overseas trip, begs hard questions about how much accountability Nigerians can expect when crisis hits.
OBSERVERS TIMES reported earlier that Tinubu left Lagos for Europe before heading to Abu Dhabi to attend the UAE’s Sustainability Week (ADSW 2026) at the invitation of President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
