His return to the security council comes a month after the United States President Donald Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern and threatened to invade the country over the alleged mass killing of Christians. He explained, “He was born in Sokoto, and I’m in Sokoto; he’s from Southern Kaduna, and I was born in Southern Kaduna,” he said, adding that the Sultan “knows I’m here and he brings his greetings.” The 2023 patron of the Tinubu–Shettima Presidential Campaign Council also hailed recent security directives by the President, including the declaration of a state of emergency on security, the recruitment of 100,000 personnel into the armed forces, and the withdrawal of police escorts from VIPs, as “giant steps in combating insecurity across the country.”
Author: Punch Newspapers
Published at: 2025-12-04 23:23:05
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