Senator Kashim Shettima who is the Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said if elected in 2023, the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu-led government will end insurgency within six months and one year.
He said this during a townhall meeting between Tinubu and the business community in Lagos.
“Within six months and one year, my leader (Tinubu) will mobilise the leadership to end this madness,” he said.
Meanwhile, Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said if elected in 2023, his administration will enlist more people in the armed forces, security services and the police as part of measures to tackle insecurity.
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He said his administration will continue the fight against insecurity by redefining the country’s counterinsurgency doctrine and practice
“We shall enlist more people in the armed forces, security services and the police. Our forces will be given better tactical communications, mobility as well as improved aerial and ground surveillance capacity.
“Through these and other measures, we shall better identify, monitor, track, and defeat these evil groups where they are. They shall have no respite until they surrender or are utterly defeated,” he added.
In 2021, Tinubu’s speech calling for the recruitment of 50 million youths into the armed forces during his 69th birthday colloquial generated controversy.
However, his spokesperson, Tunde Rahman, said it was an “accidental verbal mistake,” disclosing that the former Lagos state governor meant 50,000 youths recruitment into the security architecture of the country.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has described as diversionary, the meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with the former leader of the group and a prominent Yoruba leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Ondo State.
He pointed out that the ‘real Afenifere’ had already made its position known about endorsing the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, and that remains unchanged.
Pa Adebanjo said the intent was to create a wedge between him and Pa Fasoranti and he was not bothered about it.
Tinubu had met Pa Fasoranti where he presented his 80-page manifesto to the nonagenarian with other prominent Yoruba leaders in attendance.