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Oyo Abd¥ction: As President, I would’ve been in the forest in 2 days. There might be casualties, but everyone will come out — Peter Obi

Former Anambra State governor and 2027 presidential candidate Peter Obi has criticised the Federal Government’s response to the abd¥ction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oriire L GA, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, saying he would have personally gone into the forest where the children were taken if he were president.

Speaking on the security situation, Obi questioned why the abd¥cted children were not rescued after several weeks. “The President did not call the governor. What do you mean? 50 days! I would have been there in two days!”

Obi said the forest where the children were taken was within Nigeria and insisted that decisive action should be taken to rescue everyone. “Is the bush not in Nigeria? That bush they went in? The bush is in Nigeria! Everybody in that bush will come out! Everybody!”

He added that there could be casualties during such an operation but insisted that the priority should be bringing everyone out.
"There might be casualties, but everybody will come out!” he said.

Obi also criticised what he described as secrecy surrounding security operations in Nigeria, arguing that arrested suspects should be publicly paraded and Nigerians should be informed about the outcome of investigations. “And it is time when we say we resolve something, we arrest some people, parade the people! Let people see them! What is happening?”

Recalling his experience as Anambra governor, Obi said he had confronted criminal activities in forests and insisted that criminals leave the state. “If you go today, Evans will tell you, at least that criminal, he said Peter Obi made them to leave Anambra.”

He also mentioned several notorious criminals who, according to him, d+ed in Anambra during his administration. “No way! It’s either I’m in charge or you people are in charge! I go home! One person must be in charge!”

Namaster:
EVERYBODY is a Formula 1 racer when it comes to driving with MOUTH.

seunmsg:
This is the most senseless thing I’ve read from a presidential candidate since 1999. This guy has no single intelligent and realistic alternative idea. It’s either he’s telling us that he will take advice from a mad man on Onitsha head bridge or he will personally enter the forest to rescue kidnap victims irrespective of if it will lead to the death of the victims or not.

seunmsg:
This is the most senseless thing I’ve read from a presidential candidate since 1999. This guy has no single intelligent and realistic alternative idea. It’s either he’s telling us that he will take advice from a mad man on Onitsha head bridge or he will personally enter the forest to rescue kidnap victims irrespective of if it will lead to the death of the victims or not.

Streetinvestor2:
So the best advise was to pay ransom after 50 days
At that point a maths teacher was already beheaded. If na seyi dey the bush would the drug baron have waited for 50 days

Ttalk:
Theres is no state in Nigeria where communal clashes is as common as in Anambra. Hadly you see a neighbouring town not in one form of war with the other neighbour.

If you see Ndi Anambra don't want to leave Lagos please don't blame them, they don't want find themselves in crossfire going on back home.

Obi who couldn't solve communal clashes want to stop terrorism.

seunmsg:
This is the most senseless thing I’ve read from a presidential candidate since 1999. This guy has no single intelligent and realistic alternative idea. It’s either he’s telling us that he will take advice from a mad man on Onitsha head bridge or he will personally enter the forest to rescue kidnap victims irrespective of if it will lead to the death of the victims or not.

Amotolongbo:
Still wondering how some people found sense in this gibberish spat out by Peter Obi.

lamentor78:
Is actually true that this man takes advice from mad men

Namaster:
EVERYBODY is a Formula 1 racer when it comes to driving with MOUTH.

Namaster:
EVERYBODY is a Formula 1 racer when it comes to driving with MOUTH.

omenka:
He said damn the casualties that might result from his strategy. I hope he would stand on the same grounds if that casualty is his own child.

Never seen such a reckless desperado my whole life.

renderme:
Same person that said in an interview last week he will negotiate and talk to terrorists everywhere.

Which is it?

Or he will go to the forest to do the negotiating.


Just lying with every breath.

flokii:
The guy is a shameless hypocrite.. the South East still practice sit at home and forceful lockdowns yet this hypocrite turned blind eye to the violation of human rights going on in his home region. The forceful sit at home affects all other tribes doing business or living in the South East, yet they go about pretending as if all is well in their backyard.

Their lies will continue to get exposed, so they won't deceive Nigerians into thinking they have magic wand to fix everything wrong in the country.

Beautifulday:
He said he will negotiate and talk with them and those who didn't drop their weapons. He will go to war with them.

You no hear that part abi?

seunmsg:
This is the most senseless thing I’ve read from a presidential candidate since 1999. This guy has no single intelligent and realistic alternative idea. It’s either he’s telling us that he will take advice from a mad man on Onitsha head bridge or he will personally enter the forest to rescue kidnap victims irrespective of if it will lead to the death of the victims or not.

muykem:
You are comparing Anambra communal crisis with terrorists.

renderme:
So the president will go to the bush because of rag tag terrorists and carry phone to be talking to them.
They will be controlling him like mumu.

What are all the security architecture there for? The guy has a very pedestrian primary school level thought about leadership. Little wonder no adult follows him for long.
Only career-less content creators.

Cluelessness!

Streetinvestor2:
So the best advise was to pay ransom after 50 days
At that point a maths teacher was already beheaded. If na seyi dey the bush would the drug baron have waited for 50 days