President Muhammadu Buhari says
the security situation in the country is being unduly politicised.
Speaking while receiving
promoters of the proposed African Security Leadership Summit at the
presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday, the president said no matter how much
the revisionists try to distort history, “the records show where we were in
terms of security in 2015, where we are now, and we also know where we want to
be.”
Buhari said the relative
successes of the administration since 2015 are clear, “and what remains in
areas of security are also clear, despite the politicization.”
He lauded the plan to convene a
high-powered security summit that will bring together some of the leaders on
the African continent, defence attaches, embassies and high commissions,
leadership of the defence community in the country, and many others.
Speaking directly to l Abdullahi
Mamman, chairman of the security summit initiative, Buhari said: “I am glad
that you are well experienced, and know the implications of this high-powered
conference. It will be a great test for you and members of your committee. You
will be dealing with professionals in security, defence and diplomacy. We will
do our best to support you.”
Mamman, led a team under the
auspices of Global Initiative for Leadership Success (GILS), which is
organising the security summit, said: “We share in the conviction of the
administration to address the problems of the country. At assumption of office
in 2015, parts of the country had been acquired by Boko Haram insurgents. Your
seriousness and committed efforts have made us to now be able to worship in
peace. Boko Haram has been truly degraded, and other forms of criminalities are
being addressed.”
The royal father added that the
summit, to hold possibly sometime in October, is being convoked “to involve the
entire security architecture in Nigeria, and it will be under the theme,
“Sustaining the Security Renaissance of Nigeria.”
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