LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of failing to address national insecurity during a televised broadcast on Friday, June 5, 2026.
Okay News reports that Solomon Dalung criticized the government’s security response and economic policies during a morning interview on Arise TV.
Dalung stated that the government lacks the political will to combat terrorism while focusing on the upcoming 2027 elections. He described the national security architecture as fragmented and noted that armed groups are operating a parallel economy in the forests.
“But they don’t have equipment to track terrorists who display huge phones in the forest, behead teachers, abduct schoolchildren, torture them in the forest, produce videos and send,” he said.
Political scientist Obafemi George defended the administration on the same programme, citing a sovereign credit rating upgrade by Standard & Poor’s as evidence of economic stabilization. George linked current security challenges to regional instability following the withdrawal of French forces from the Sahel region.
“One of the things that we are going through that is causing our current pain is because some sacrifices that were meant to have been done years ago weren’t done,” he said.
George added that the federal government had recently conducted rescue operations in Goza and Katsina.
