The Makinde/Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation, MDPCO, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu’s laxity on security has emboldened terrorists, bandits and kidnappers to attack, kill, maim and abduct Nigerians.

The campaign organisation made the allegation against the backdrop of the abduction of 19 prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, to their orientation camps in the South-East and South-South.

In a statement by its Director of Strategic Communications, Richard Ihediwa, the MDPCO said the incident was another sad commentary on what it described as the failure of the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration to secure Nigerians, particularly youths on national assignment.

The campaign body said the incident was not isolated, but reflected a wider security crisis in which homes, communities, markets, places of worship, schools and highways were increasingly being overrun by criminal elements.

It alleged that more than 600,000 Nigerians had been killed by terrorists, bandits and marauders in the three-and-a-half years of the Tinubu administration, while countless others remained in captivity.

The organisation acknowledged the sacrifices of security personnel but alleged that the Tinubu Presidency had failed to demonstrate the capacity to manage an effective, intelligence-driven security system capable of guaranteeing the safety of Nigerians.

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