The party's demand, issued Friday, comes as President Bola Tinubu publicly celebrates one rescue in Oyo State while families in Kwara, Zamfara and Borno say they have received no comparable update on their own missing relatives. The contrast has become the ADC's central argument: that government attention to insecurity now appears selective.

The 176 residents were abducted from Woro community in Kaiama Local Government Area, Kwara State, on February 3, 2026. As of the ADC's statement, they remain in captivity. That is more than 170 days.

On Friday, July 24, residents of Kaiama staged a peaceful protest demanding answers. According to the ADC's National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the demonstrators were asking three questions: where their loved ones are, what government has done, and when they should expect them home. Abdullahi described the protest as apolitical, calling it instead "the cry of citizens, who fear that their loved ones have been forgotten."

No federal timeline for the Kaiama victims has been issued.

The ADC's statement lists a run of security incidents beyond Kwara. In Zamfara State, no fewer than 40 residents from 11 communities in Mayanchi District of Maru Local Government Area were abducted by bandits, according to Abdullahi's statement, with women and children making up most of the victims. Families from those communities fled their homes, the statement said.

Separately, attacks in Benue's Sankera axis killed people on the same day as the Kaiama protest, July 24. Two days later, in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, suspected bandits abducted a sitting judge.

The judge, Faruku Hassan Bunza of the Kebbi State High Court, was taken from his residence, according to the ADC statement. His abduction adds a sitting member of the judiciary to the list of recent victims, a detail the party used to argue that insecurity now reaches beyond rural communities into state institutions.

Borno State, meanwhile, continues to face insurgent attacks and displacement, the statement said, though it cited no new incident date for that state.

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A pattern, according to the ADC

Abdullahi's statement frames these events as connected rather than isolated. "These are not isolated incidents," he said. "They are reminders that insecurity remains a daily reality for millions of Nigerians."

The party's sharper claim concerns what it calls selective presidential response. Abdullahi said the president's celebration of the Oyo State rescue prompted a direct question: what is the status of those still held elsewhere. He did not name a specific date for the Oyo rescue in the statement, but tied it directly to renewed public scrutiny of the Kaiama case.

"Every successful rescue of abducted Nigerians deserves to be celebrated," Abdullahi said. "But the President must ensure that his actions do not create the impression that the value of a Nigerian life depends on where the victim comes from or whether the tragedy attracts national headlines."

He added: "Leadership demands equal compassion for every citizen, because no country can build national unity on the basis of selective empathy and selective attention."

The statement also targets the president's public messaging directly, describing Tinubu as "a professional statement-maker" on security matters. The phrase is the ADC's, not an independent assessment, and reflects the party's argument that verbal assurances have outpaced verifiable outcomes.

The ADC said it was concerned about what it called an unmistakable pattern in the administration's response to insecurity, one in which some victims receive swift presidential attention while others are left to what the party called "languish in silence."

No presidential response yet

As of this reporting, no statement from the Presidency directly addresses the ADC's demand for a Kaiama timeline. Special Adviser on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga has not issued a public comment responding to the party's July statement.

The demand comes at a moment when the administration's security messaging is already under strain elsewhere. The Border Communities Development Agency remains without a confirmed single head, and the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council scandal continues to draw scrutiny from a House of Representatives committee. Whether the Kaiama case becomes the next flashpoint in that broader credibility question depends on what, if anything, the Presidency says next.

The families of the 176 Woro residents have now waited more than five months. The ADC has not set its own deadline for a government response, but the protest in Kaiama on July 24 suggests local patience is narrowing. Whether the Presidency answers Abdullahi's question, on the status of those still held elsewhere, remains the open point in this story.