Democracy Day: Tinubu warns against ethnic profiling, vows tougher action on insecurity

President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to reject ethnic profiling and unite against insecurity, declaring that criminality should never be linked to any tribe, religion or region of the country .
Speaking during his 2026 Democracy Day address, Tinubu urged citizens to avoid assigning blame along ethnic lines, insisting that terrorism, banditry and kidnapping remain threats to all Nigerians regardless of their background.
“At a time like this, let us not assign blame or point fingers. Crime has no ethnicity,” the President said. “We must stand united and be assured that the enemies of our nation shall soon be history.”
Tinubu acknowledged that the country was marking Democracy...