FINTIRI TELL NORTH: TINUBU NO BE YOUR SCAPEGOAT FOR EVERY INSECURITY WAHALA

For Nigeria political market, e be like say whenever insecurity begin boil, politicians quickly bring microphone, point finger and begin search for who go carry the blame. But Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, don now tell northern leaders say make dem reduce the finger-pointing exercise and face the matter of insecurity with more responsibility.

Fintiri, during APC stakeholders’ engagement for Yola, reportedly challenge northern leaders to stop blaming President Bola Tinubu for every security wahala affecting the region. According to the governor, Nigeria don see this political film before: when former President Goodluck Jonathan, another Southerner, dey power, accusations over Boko Haram and northern insecurity also fly plenty. Now Tinubu dey office, and according to Fintiri, the blame game don return like sequel nobody order.

FINTIRI CALL OUT THE BLAME GAME

Fintiri reportedly ask why some northerners dey always complain more whenever Southern president dey occupy Aso Rock. Him point be say leaders from the North must also accept responsibility for challenges within their communities instead of treating Abuja like customer-care centre for every local failure. The governor argue say insecurity requires leaders at federal, state, local and community levels to work together, rather than passing responsibility around like hot akara.

The Adamawa governor also reportedly remind his audience say Boko Haram insurgency no originate from Southern Nigeria. While this observation no remove the constitutional responsibility of the Federal Government to protect lives and property, e still raise serious question about local leadership, intelligence gathering, poverty, unemployment, radicalisation and governance failures. Fintiri’s central message be say the blame game fit generate political applause, but e no fit rescue kidnapped person or stop bandit from entering village.

INSECURITY NO BE ONE-MAN PROBLEM

The broader security situation for Northern Nigeria remains deeply serious. Recent reports continue to show kidnapping, insurgency, bandit attacks and communal violence affecting different parts of the region, while security experts and public commentators repeatedly link the crisis to weak intelligence, ungoverned spaces, poverty, youth unemployment and limited government presence in vulnerable communities.

This context make Fintiri’s intervention politically important, even if e go surely generate argument. The Federal Government controls the military, police and many major security institutions, meaning President Tinubu and his administration cannot completely escape public accountability for national insecurity. But state governments, traditional institutions, local authorities, community leaders and political elites also play important roles in education, social welfare, intelligence sharing and preventing conditions wey criminals fit exploit. In short, one person no fit carry the whole blame, just as one person no fit solve everything alone.

Fintiri also reportedly accuse some northern leaders of failing to provide adequate governance and then shifting responsibility elsewhere. That accusation touch one uncomfortable national truth: Nigerian politicians often dey very sharp when election season reach, but when governance homework land for table, some people suddenly develop selective amnesia. Yet insecurity no dey check party membership card before e strike.

The Adamawa governor’s message may sound like defence of Tinubu, but the wider issue pass political loyalty. The North’s security crisis has survived several administrations and cannot be honestly explained with one presidency alone. If leaders continue the blame game without confronting structural problems, Nigeria fit continue holding emergency meetings while criminals continue holding operational meetings.

At the end, Fintiri don throw one heavy question enter northern political arena: who suppose take responsibility when insecurity become everyday reality? Abuja community, no doubt. But governors, local leaders, communities and political elites cannot fold hand, point only at the Villa and pretend say responsibility get one permanent address. For now, the argument don start—but ordinary Nigerians go prefer less political grammar and more security results. OGM News Pidgin go continue to follow the matter as the political dust settle and the real fight against insecurity continues.