Vice President Kashim Shettima has highlighted the inadequacy of a purely military response in resolving the Northeast insurgency, advocating for a balanced approach that incorporates both military and non-military strategies.
The Vice President further disclosed that the Bola Tinubu administration intends to introduce a comprehensive initiative in the near future, targeting the intertwined challenges of insurgency, poverty, and other hardships confronting citizens, particularly those in the northern region.
Speaking with journalists on Sunday during his condolence visit to Kano, the Vice President made this assertion.
In the company of Deputy Senate President Senator Barau Jibrin and other notable individuals, Senator Shettima paid a visit to the ancient city to extend their condolences and share in the grief of the government and people of Kano following the demise of elder statesman Alhaji Abubakar Imam Galadanci.
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Speaking on the plan to address challenges confronting Nigerians, the VP said, ‘The President is determined to define the meaning and concept of modern governance and the crisis we have in the northwest which is further accentuated by poverty. The social exclusion is also something that the President is determined to frontally confront and in the coming weeks he is going to unveil the Pulaku solution.’
‘Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crisis in the northwest. There has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution.’
‘In the next couple of weeks, we will unveil the Pulaku solution which will address the grievances and social exclusion of our Fulbe cousins in the northwest and also towards addressing the root causes of all the banditry and insurgency in the nation,’ Sen. Shettima elucidated.
On reaching Kano, the Vice President was welcomed by Governor Abba Yusuf and subsequently made his way to the residence of the Emir of Bichi, HRH Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero. There, he offered his sympathies on behalf of President Tinubu in light of the loss of the late Imam Galadanci.
Following his visit to the Emir of Bichi’s residence, the Vice President proceeded to the family compound of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam Galadanci, where he was warmly welcomed by Prof. Shehu Galadanci and Air Vice Marshal Nura Imam (Rtd), representing the extended family.
Prof. Shehu Galadanci, speaking on behalf of the family, expressed gratitude to the Vice President for his visit. He stressed the importance of unity among northern leaders and called on all Nigerians to offer unwavering support, both through prayers and other means, to ensure the success of the Tinubu administration’s programs and policies.
The Vice President, after concluding his visit in Kano, travelled to Katsina to console renowned businessman Alhaji Dahiru Mangal on the demise of his first wife, Hajiya Aisha Dahiru, who passed away on Saturday evening in Abuja after a brief illness.
Hajiya Mangal’s burial ceremony was carried out in line with Islamic customs.
Also part of the Vice President’s delegation were Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, a House of Representatives member from Kano, and Alhaji Ibrahim Masari, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters.