I am overwhelmed by the security situation in the northwest, says Buhari

By Nnamdi Okosieme

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has admitted to being overwhelmed by the worsening security situation in the northwest of Nigeria.

President Buhari, who was voted into office in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 largely on account of his promise to Nigerians to put a lid on the security challenges in the country, confessed on Thursday on a visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar in his palace, to being overwhelmed by the spiralling violence and criminality in the region.

President Buhari while his administration had managed to push back violence and crimes criminality the in the Niger Delta region and the northeast, the sutuation in the northwest remains intractable.

The President who told his host that he has ordered the Nigerian military and other security agencies to rejig their strategies for bringing peace to the region, daid:

“Every day, we are worried about what is happening in the northwest. When we came, if Nigerians are to be fair to us, they know the condition in the north-east and the south-south, but what is happening now in the north-west is what has honestly overwhelmed me

“The same people, the same culture, killing each other, stealing each other’s property. We are going to do our best and the military and law enforcement agencies have been given a clear order that they shouldn’t spare any bandit or terrorist.

The Ptesident said his government is going to hand over a secure country better than it inherited it.

Commiserating with the state over the recent bandit attacks, the President the natoon will said “win the battle over evil”.