Bola A. Akinterinwa
The multidimensional character of insecurity in Nigeria of today has not allowed the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to have a good policy of clairvoyance in the execution of his Next Level development agenda for Nigeria, which is currently faced with critical security challenges: armed banditry, Boko Haramic insurgency, and herdsmen-farmers imbroglio. The challenges are largely fuelled by PMB’s controversial Fulanisation agenda, and apparent manoeuvrings to ensure re-election of the ruling party, APC, by all means, including rigging of the 2023 general elections, through election reform.
The lack of clairvoyance is explained by allegations of double speak and double standard of government: hard attitude towards secessionists in southern Nigeria and soft approach to those aiding and abetting and actually engaging in armed banditry and Boko Haramism in the north. The hard attitude on southern secessionists has led to the abduction in Kenya of