Obasanjo Secured Nigeria, APC Is Incapable – Kwankwaso

As the 2023 general elections draw closer, the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso has said the current Federal Government under the administration of All Progressives Congress (APC) is incapable to secure Nigeria.

Speaking last night at the debate organised by Arise TV in collaboration with the  Centre for Development and Democracy at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Kwankwaso said Nigeria and Nigerians were more secured under the administartion of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Speaking on the terrorist attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train and abduction of passengers, the NNPP candidate recalled how the Olusegun Obasanjo administration under which he served as minister and presidential adviser secured every part of Nigeria and went ahead to restore peace in other African countries.

 Kwankwaso said, “As a former Minister of Defence, I can assure you that the situation should not have been allowed. I am sure you remember that recently we unveiled our blueprint, and in our blueprint, we made it very clear that the number of military that we have today, which is about 250,000, is grossly inadequate.

 “Therefore, we have made adequate arrangements to have about one million military – Army, Air Force and Navy. With that, we believe we are going to take over every square metre of our land in this country. Police are about 230,000 at the moment; we also want to raise it to about one million; put together the SSS, Civil Defence and other security agencies. Within a very short period of time, we should be able to be in charge of our land.

“We will be very willing to dialogue with anybody; anybody with grudges in any part of the country, our government will sit down with them and dialogue. At the end of the day, anybody who decides to think otherwise, definitely, the law will take its course.”

Kwankwaso further pledged to improve national security by encouraging willing youth corps members to join the Armed Forces and other security agencies.

 He said, “Some of us who are extended family members of the security in this country are very much worried and concerned, and sometimes even ashamed that today, in 2022, security agencies could not identify locations of terrorists, especially when everybody including the criminals are using telephones, and these telephones are not difficult to identify, and these are the problems.”