Pastor Tunde Bakare, Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, has urged President Bola Tinubu to take decisive steps in addressing Nigeria’s escalating insecurity. Speaking on Sunday, November 30, 2025, the cleric emphasized that beyond initial responses, the Presidency must move toward accountability and restitution for victims of violence across the country.
Bakare acknowledged that the President has made preliminary efforts to tackle insecurity but stressed that more concrete, short-term objectives are needed under the current administration. The pastor called for the Nigerian state to formally recognize its failure to protect citizens over the years.
“Number one, acknowledge the responsibility of the Nigerian state. This will entail the president owning the failure of government over the decades to protect the victims and survivors of banditry, terrorism, and other forms of insecurity rather than saying it didn’t begin with me. It’s time for you to take action,” Bakare stated.
He outlined specific steps for this acknowledgment, including the establishment of a register of victims and survivors. “It will entail opening a victims and survivors register,” Bakare said, emphasizing the importance of a structured approach to documenting those affected.
The cleric also urged the President to deliver a formal national address within three months, culminating in an apology to affected communities. “Then at the end of three months, in a solemn address to the nation, the president would tender an apology on behalf of the Nigerian state to victimized communities across the nation, calling each community by name and possibly some of the families most gruesomely hit in the attacks,” he added.
Pastor Bakare connected the act of apology to subsequent restitution, noting that acknowledgment should precede financial and material support for victims.
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