Unsafe Nigeria; Presidency Reacts Over Obasanjo Support For Foreign Help
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#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.
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#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.
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00:00Presidency under the command and control of President Bola Ahmed Tanubu has said that if the ex-president of Nigeria, Alusugun Obasanjo wished to help in addressing apparent worsening security situations in the West Africa country, Obasanjo must first acknowledge the past failures that allowed terrorists to gain a foothold, and then support ongoing efforts, not undermine them.
00:22The Presidency through the Office of the Special Advisor to the President on Media and Communications, Sunday Daray stated this few days ago in reactions to the statement of Obasanjo that Nigerians have rights to call on international communities' 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 Joss.
00:51Plato 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.
01:08A 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, Kebi, the kidnapping of 38 worshippers in Eriku, Kwara, and the mass abduction of over 300 students and teachers still in captivity at a Catholic school in Niger state with
01:38The 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.
01:56And the rising unsafe nature of things could have made the rising unsafe nature of things could have made the Nigeria's defense minister, Alhaji Mohamed Badaru Abu Bakr to tender resignation letter on Monday while the immediate past chief of defense staff, General Christopher Moussa has since been appointed as the new defense minister and the Senate has scheduled today Wednesday for his screening in line with the law and constitutional procedures of the Africa country.
02:20According to Obasanjo, no matter what religion you belong to, no matter where you come from, no matter what profession, we Nigerians are being killed, and our governments seem to be incapable of protecting us, we are part of the world community, if our government cannot do it, we have right to call on the international community to do for us what our government cannot do for us.
02:44And for anybody to say because those who are being killed belong to this region, belong to this religion, belong to this tribe, and then others too are being killed cannot be an acceptable excuse.
02:56Before I left government, I know we had capacity to pick up anybody in Nigeria who commits crime anywhere.
03:03The capacity that we didn't have then is after we have identified and located such a criminal, we have no capacity to be able to pick him up without moving on land or by air.
03:14Now we have capacity with drones.
03:17You can take them up.
03:18Why are we not doing that?
03:20Why are we apologizing?
03:22Why are we negotiating?
03:23In a statement on Sunday, Dare warned that Obasanjo's comments risk distorting the security realities and undermining public confidence.
03:32He argued that if the former president truly intends to contribute meaningfully, he must first accept responsibility for past failures.
03:41Sunday Dare in the statement titled, Between Tanubu's capability and the ignobility of pseudo-statesmanship, stated that the, recent comments by a former president and a few habitual presidential aspirants attempting to paint.
03:56The Tanubu administrationers, unable to protect Nigerians, are not merely hypocritical but ignoble.
04:03They ignore the hard truth, Nigeria is facing terrorists.
04:07All of them, by every definition, be they international, regional, or local.
04:13Yet the very individuals who looked away when these threats first sprouted now want to sit in judgment.
04:19Nigerians know better, the suggestion that Nigeria should effectively subcontract its internal security to foreign governments is not statesmanship.
04:28It is capitulation.
04:30Before recommending surrender, the former president should reflect on what he failed to do when these terrorists first began organizing under his watch.
04:391. Nigeria is under attack by terrorists.
04:43Full stop.
04:44No euphemisms.
04:45No soft language.
04:47The people killing Nigerians, raiding villages, kidnapping innocents, blowing up infrastructure, and challenging state authority or terrorists, whether they fly a foreign flag or none at all.
05:00Nigeria today confronts a multi-layered terrorist ecosystem that includes internationally designated terror organizations.
05:08ISIS-linked and al-Qaeda-linked franchises across the Sahel.
05:12Local violent extremist groups masquerading as bandits.
05:16Cross-border terrorist cells exploiting porous frontiers.
05:20Ideological insurgents and criminal terror hybrids operating in ungoverned spaces.
05:25These actors collaborate.
05:27They share money, ideology, weapons, intelligence, and logistics.
05:33The goal is the same, to break the Nigerian state and subjugate its people.
05:38Let's call them what they all are, terrorists.
05:412. Terrorism took root on his watch and grew because it was not stopped.
05:46It is historical fact that the ideological foundations and early cells of Boko Haram were incubated during Obasanjo's civilian presidency.
05:55While they recruited, indoctrinated, built camps, and flaunted authority, the state failed to act decisively.
06:04What began as a preventable extremist sect transformed into a violent insurgency.
06:10A cross-border terrorist franchise, a regional menace aligned with global jihadist movements.
06:16For the leader under whom the first seeds of terrorism were allowed to germinate to now issue public lectures is not just ironic, it is reckless.
06:253. Tanubu's strategy meets the threat head-on.
06:29President Tanubu is not facing a conventional security challenge.
06:33He is confronting terrorism in full-spectrum form, both internal and transnational.
06:39His strategy is clear.
06:41Kinetic pressure.
06:42Modernizing military capability.
06:44Intensifying intelligence-led operations.
06:47Squeezing terrorist mobility and dismantling logistics.
06:51Retaking and holding territory.
06:53Non-kinetic dominance.
06:55Restoring governance in underserved and contested zones.
06:58Deploying economic stabilization and community programs.
07:02Counter-radicalization and reintegration initiatives.
07:06Building trust to deny terrorists the human terrain they exploit.
07:10Whole of government.
07:11Whole of nation.
07:13Because terrorists thrive in division.
07:15Nigeria defeats them through unity.
07:18Sovereignty first.
07:19Nigeria will cooperate internationally, yes, but it will not outsource its security or raise a white flag because someone who once had the chance lost his nerve.
07:29Yes, Nigeria needs the support and understanding of the United States and that is already ongoing.
07:36And of course the collaboration of other allied nations.
07:40The crime at hand is transnational.
07:42Every ungoverned space must come under scrutiny.
07:454.
07:46Leaders who undermine Nigeria strengthen terrorists.
07:49When former leaders disparage the nation's capacity, they hand psychological victories to the very terrorists murdering, kidnapping and extorting Nigerians.
07:59Terrorizing Nigerians in plain language.
08:02A real statesman offers support, not sound bites.
08:06If Obasanjo wishes to help, he should acknowledge the past failures.
08:10That allowed terrorists to gain a foothold, and then support ongoing efforts, not undermine them.
08:17Let him put his position and connections at Nigeria's disposal like he has done for other countries.
08:23Not seek to put down an administration that is fully engaging in many fronts.
08:27Economic turnaround, providing security and building key infrastructure.
08:325.
08:33Under Tanubu, Nigeria will defeat terrorism.
08:37President Bola Ahmed Tanubu remains committed to securing every inch of Nigeria by confronting terrorists with strength, unity, and a whole of government strategy.
08:47Let all patriots join hands now and not raise alarms.
08:51This administration will not be distracted by selective amnesia wrapped in elder statesmanship, nor will it allow those who midwifed Nigeria's early security failures to rewrite history.
09:02Posts who are upon level, bringing youth to news in the most digital world.
09:08The 1st's dropped in December, the 2nd's top 10 is at the 12th'sère.
09:12The 2nd's bottom 10 is also at the 12th's bottom 10.
09:17We finish the 200's top 10.
09:18The 1st's bottom 10 is at the 12th of the country.
09:19The 2nd's top 10 is at the 13th's bottom 10.
09:24The 3rd's bottom 10 is at the 13th's bottom 10.
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