Unsafe Nigeria; Presidency Reacts Over Obasanjo Support For Foreign Help

Unsafe Nigeria; Presidency Reacts Over Obasanjo Support For Foreign Help https://ift.tt/DoPREbZ #Issues #Obasanjo #Tinubu #Trump ©December 3rd, 2025 ®December 3, 2025 12:18 pm Presidency under the command and control of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that if the ex President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo wished to help in addressing apparent worsening security situations in the West Africa Country, Obasanjo must first acknowledged the past failures that allowed terrorists to gain a foothold, and then support ongoing efforts, not undermine them, the Presidency through the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Communications, Sunday Dare stated this few days ago in reactions to the statement of Obasanjo that Nigerians have rights to call on International community's intervention if the government can no longer protect them, stating that, the terrorists also kill people of other religions should not be an excuse, this, Obasanjo said while he was speaking at a Christmas Carol event in Jos, Plateau State, after President Donald Trump of the United States, US had raised alarm of what the US president described as Christians genocide in Nigeria and threatened to send US troops to Nigeria if the killing of Christians continued by the suspected Islamic terrorists, a presidential statement that has seen spike in the activities of kidnapping and killings in Nigeria and thus creating more attention to the apparent unsafe nature of the country which included the abduction of 25 schoolgirls from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, Kebbi; the kidnapping of 38 worshippers in Eruku, Kwara; and the mass abduction of over 300 students and teachers still in captivity at a Catholic school in Niger State with daily wave of coordinated attacks across the Northern and Southern parts of the country wherein the bandits often suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have abducted monarchs, worshippers, a bride, married couples, students and travellers, taking at least 600 people as captives within 14 days, and the rising unsafe nature of things could have made the Nigeria's defence minister, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar to tender resignation letter on Monday while the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa has since been appointed as the new Defence Minister and the Senate has scheduled today Wednesday for his screening inline with the law and constitutional procedures of the Africa country. #OsazuwaAkonedo