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Speaker 1: Presidency under the command and control of President Bola ahmed

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To Nubu has said that if the ex President of Nigeria,

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A Lusigan Obasanjo wished to help in addressing apparent worsening

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security situations in the West Africa country, Abisanjo must first

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acknowledge the past failures that allowed terrorists to gain a

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foothold and then support ongoing efforts not under mine them.

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The Presidency, through the Office of the Special Adviser to

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the President on Media and Communications, Sunday Dare, stated this

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few days ago in reactions to the statement of Obisanjo

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that Nigerians have rights to call on international community’s intervention

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if the government can no longer protect them, stating that

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the terrorists also kill people of other religions should not

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be an excuse this. Obasanjo said while he was speaking

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at a Christmas Carol event in Jos Plato State, after

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President Donald Trump of the United States US had raised

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alarm of what the U S President described as Christian’s

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joie in Nigeria and threatened to send US troops to

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Nigeria if the killing of Christians continued by the suspected

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Islamic terrorists. A presidential statement that has seen spike in

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the activities of kidnapping and killings in Nigeria and thus

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creating more attention to the apparent unsafe nature of the country,

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which included the abduction of twenty five schoolgirls from Government

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Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga Keb, the kidnapping of thirty

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eight worshipers in Eriku Kwara, and the mass abduction of

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over three hundred students and teachers still in captivity at

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a Catholic school in Niger State, with daily wave of

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coordinated attacks across the northern and southern parts of the

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country wherein the bandits, often suspected to be Fulani herdsmen

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have abducted monarchs, worshippers, a bride, married couples, students and travelers,

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taking at least six hundred people as captives within fourteen days,

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and the rising unsafe nature of things could have made

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the Nigeria’s Defence Minister, Alhaji Mohammad Badaru Abubaka to tend

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a resignation letter on Monday, while the immediate past Chief

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of Defense Staff, General Christopher Musa has since been appointed

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as the new Defense Minister, and the Senate has scheduled

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to day Wednesday for his screening in line with the

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law and constitutional procedures of the Africa country. According to Obasanjo,

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no matter what religion you belong to, no matter where

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you come from, no matter what profession, we Nigerians are

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being killed and our governments seem to be incapable of

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protecting us. We are part of the world community. If

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our government cannot do it, we have right to call

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on the international community to do for us what our

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government cannot do for us. And for anybody to say

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because those who are being killed belong to this region,

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belong to this religion, belong to this tribe, and then

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others too are being killed, cannot be an acceptable excuse.

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Before I left government, I know we had capacity to

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pick up anybody in Nigeria who commits crime anywhere. The

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capacity that we didn’t have then is after we have

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identified and located such a criminal, we have no capacity

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to be able to pick him up without moving on

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land or by air. Now we have capacity with drones.

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You can take him up. Why are we not doing that?

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Why are we apologizing? Why are we negotiating? In a

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statement on Sunday, dare warned that Obasanjo’s comments risked distorting

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the security realities and undermining public confidence. He argued that

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if the former president truly intends to contribute meaningfully, he

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must first accept responsibility for past failures. Sunday Dare, in

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the statement titled between Tanubu’s Capability and the ignobility of

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pseudo Statesmanship, stated that the recent comments by a former

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president and a few habitual presidential aspirants attempting to paint

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the Tanubu administrationers unable to protect Nigeriaans are not merely hypocritical,

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but ignoble. They ignore the hard truth. Nigeria is facing terrorists,

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all of them by every definition, be they international, regional,

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or local. Yet the very individuals who looked away when

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these threats first sprouted now want to sit in judgment

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Nigerians no better. The suggestion that Nigeria should effectively subcontract

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its internal security to foreign governments is not statesmanship, it

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is capitulation. Before recommending surrender, the former president should reflect

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on what he failed to do when these terrorists first

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began organizing under his watch. One Nigeria is under attack

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by terrorists, full stop, no euphemisms, no soft language. The people,

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killing Nigerians, raiding villages, kidnapping innocents, blowing up infrastructure, and

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challenging state authority at terrorists, whether they fly a foreign

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flag or none at all. Nigeria today confronts a multi

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layered terrorist ecosystem that includes internationally designated terror organizations, ISIS

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linked and al Qaeda linked franchises across the Sahil, local

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violent extremist groups masquerading as bandits, cross border terrorist cells

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exploiting porous frontiers, ideological insurgents, and criminal terror hybrids operating

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in ungoverned spaces. These actors collaborate, They share money, ideology, weapons,

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intelligence and logistics. The girl is the same to break

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the Nigerian state and subjugate its people. Let’s call them

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what they all are, terrorists. Two Terrorism took root on

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his watch and grow because it was not stopped. It

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is historical fact that the ideological foundations and early cells

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of Boccoharam were incubated during Obasanjo’s civilian presidency. While they recruited, indoctrinated,

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built camps, and flaunted authority, the state failed to act

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decisively what began as a preventable extremist sect transformed into

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a violent insurgency, a cross bordered terrorist franchise, a regional

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menace aligned with global jihadist movements. For the leader under

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whom the first seeds of terrorism were allowed to germinate,

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to now issue public lectures is not just ironic, it

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is reckless. Three t Enubu’s strategy meets the threat head on.

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President Tanubu is not facing a conventional security challenge. He

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is confronting terrorism in full spectrum form, both internal and transnational.

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His strategy is clear kinetic pressure, modernizing military capability, intensifying

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intelligence led operations, squeezing terrorist mobility and dismantling logistics, Retaking

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and holding territory, non kinetic dominance, restoring governance in underserved

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and contested zones, deploying e economic stabilization and community programs,

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counter radicalization and reintegration initiatives, building trust to deny terrorists

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the human terrain they exploit. Whole of government, whole of nation.

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Because terrorists thrive in division, Nigeria defeats them through unity sovereignty. First,

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Nigeria will cooperate internationally, yes, but it will not outsource

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its security or raise a white flag because someone who

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once had the chance lost his nerve. Yes, Nigeria needs

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the support and understanding of the United States and that

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is already ongoing, and of course the collaboration of other

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allied nations. The crime at hand is transnational. Every ungoverned

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space must come under scrutiny. Four Leaders who undermine Nigeria’s

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strength and terrorists. When former leaders disparage the nation’s capacity,

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they hand psychological victories to the very terrorists murdering, kidnapping

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and extorting Nigerians, terrorizing Nigerians in plain language, a real

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statesman offers support, not sound bites. If Abasanjo wishes to help,

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he should acknowledge the past failures that allowed terrorists to

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gain a foothold and then support ongoing efforts, not undermine them.

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Let him put his position and connections at Nigeria’s disposal

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like he has done for other countries, not seek to

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put down an administration that is fully engaging in many

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fronts economic turnaround, providing security and building key infrastructure. Five.

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Under Tanubu, Nigeria will defeat terrorism. President Bolah Ahmed Tanubu

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remains committed to securing every inch of Nigeria by confronting terrorists.

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With strength, unity, and the whole of government strategy. Let

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all patriots join hands now and not raise alarms. This

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administration will not be distracted by selective amnesia wrapped in

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elder statesmanship, nor will it allow those who midwife Nigeria’s

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early security failures to rewrite history as war on ned bringiny,

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you bring mee in a mortgage. Is aware