Tinubu’s Excuse For Avoiding Yelwata Is Unacceptable – Adebayo
Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for failing to visit Yelwata town in Benue State, where over 200 persons were recently killed by suspected herdsmen.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Adebayo described Tinubu’s excuse of bad roads as “untenable” and said the President, as Commander-in-Chief, should have made it a point of duty to reach the affected community.
“He cannot say as commander-in-chief there is a part of the country that is unreachable by you. People are living there,” he said.
OSUN DEFENDER recalls that Tinubu was in Benue on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, to commiserate with the state over the killings but did not visit the actual site of the attack.
Adebayo said the President’s visit appeared more like a political outing than a condolence mission.
“Going to a place of mourning that even during the Nigerian civil war, it would be newsworthy if there were 200 lives lost at one time,” he stated.
“So, such a place is a somber occasion and he is in charge of all the people who followed him there.
“But what do you get there? It was like another political rally. That sombreness was not there.
“The President should have gone there as a chief mourner and his language should have been somber and his language should have been better controlled.”
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