Jos Killings: Turaki-led PDP Says Tinubu Displayed Insensitivity At Visit

A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has accused President Bola Tinubu of “insensitivity and inhumanity” after the president’s brief Jos airport meeting with Plateau victims, saying the appearance worsened grief following the Palm Sunday massacre that killed more than 40 people.

In a statement on Friday, PDP national publicity secretary Ini Ememobong said the Presidency stayed silent for over 48 hours after the March 29 attack, then only visited four days later “in the evening, rushed through a meeting … at the lounge of the Jos airport.”

Ememobong said Tinubu announced he had “only 10 minutes” because “the airport does not have light,” calling the remarks undiplomatic and the stopover a “performative and superficial show.”

“The President’s inability to leave the airport is clearly linked to the untamed insecurity … That the President himself fears venturing into Plateau State is a damning indication of the hopelessness into which the Tinubu APC-led administration has plunged this country,” the statement read.

It dismissed Tinubu’s pledge to deploy 5,000 CCTV cameras as a “simplistic” and “laughable” response to rural massacres, urging instead an immediate whole-of-society approach centred on community engagement.

The Turaki camp said it would have been “better for President Tinubu to have stayed back in Abuja” than to stage what it called a “disgraceful display.”

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