Plateau Attack Happened To Embarrass President Tinubu Birthday – Cubana Chief Priest

Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, has come under heavy fire after claiming that the recent killings in Jos, Plateau State, were orchestrated to “embarrass” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his birthday. In a social media post published and widely reported on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, the celebrity barman suggested the timing of the massacre was politically symbolic rather than simply another horrifying failure of national security.

The comment has triggered sharp backlash because it appears to shift attention from the victims, the dead, and the collapsing security architecture to presidential image management. That reaction intensified after other public voices condemned the remark as insensitive, while the killings themselves pushed the Plateau crisis back into the national spotlight. Separate reports the same day also showed that authorities were scrambling to respond, with renewed concern over worsening insecurity in the Middle Belt.

When citizens are being buried, spin becomes an insult. Nigeria’s tragedy is no longer just the violence itself, but the disturbing ease with which some elites reduce bloodshed to political optics. This is not merely a public relations embarrassment for Tinubu; it is a moral indictment of a state that keeps failing to protect its own people.