The Social Democratic Party, SDP presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Adewole Adebayo, said President Bola Tinubu has lost control of his administration following the wave of insecurity ravaging the country.

Adebayo made the statement on Tuesday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television,

He stated that Nigeria cannot pretend to lack the tools to fight violent crime and tackle rising insecurity.

“The government needs to come out and confess the truth that they are enabling this insecurity, and they cannot pretend that they don’t have all the tools that it takes (to tackle insecurity).

“The first enemy of government is government. The first enemy of the people is the government. You cannot commit a crime and last one week, or one month, if you don’t have government people cooperating with you,” Adebayo said.

He questioned how ransom money moves freely through the system, urging President Tinubu to reorganise the security architecture urgently.

According to the SDP stalwart, every local government already has at least one police division that should be ready to respond quickly to threats.

Adebayo also questioned the government’s operational priorities and wondered how armed groups execute mass abductions with such ease.