THE vice-presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Kashim Shettima, has stated that if the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu-led government is elected in 2023, insurgency will be put to an end within six months to a year.
He stated this during a townhall meeting between Tinubu and the business community in Lagos.
“Within six months and one year, my leader (Tinubu) will mobilize the leadership to end this madness,” he said.
Adding that the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stated that if elected in 2023 his administration will boost the number of Armed Forces personnel forces, security services, and police as part of efforts to combat insecurity.
He asserted that his administration will continue the fight against insecurity through improving the country’s counterinsurgency doctrine and technique.
“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.
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