Kwankwaso, the national leader of the NNPP, made this assertion while addressing reporters following the NNPP National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja.
He explained that while the Federal Government bears the primary responsibility for security, Nigerians also have a vital role to play in helping security agencies by providing essential information.
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“As former Minister of Defence, a former Chief Security Officer of Kano State for eight years, somebody who has gone around and well exposed in this game of politics, I believe that tackling security challenge is now on the shoulders of the federal government.
“We have seen states forming some security outfits. Sometimes you laugh. The level at which it is today is at the level of Nigerian military and anything short of that wouldn’t work.
“And everybody must work together to make sure there is peace in this country.
“Some of us who are from the villages and even towns can remember how our people were going to farms. Now people cannot go to the farm. They are also being chased from their villages and towns.
“Our children are daily abused and taken away by criminals and bandits in hundreds,“ he said.
Kwankwaso, the NNPP’s presidential candidate for 2023, claimed that his party has the solutions to address the security issue and other challenges facing the nation.
He criticized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for failing the Nigerian people, positioning the NNPP as Nigerian’s only chance at true security.
