Cross Rivers State Governor Ben Ayade has said that the insecurity in Nigeria would have been more than what is being experienced now had president Muhammadu Buhari weren’t the one in power.
Ayade said this while responding to questions from journalists after a closed-door meeting with the president on Tuesday 26th of April in the statehouse, Abuja.
The governor said;
“I’ve just finished a meeting with the President. And this meeting turned out to be one of my most enthusiastic meetings ever. Well, let me first acknowledge the depth of knowledge and the depth of the intellect that the President exudes,” he said.
“His master hand understanding of the international and global security challenges and dovetailing into the Nigerian situation. And what he has done to be able to stem the continuous incursion of bandits and Boko Haram into Nigeria.
This country would have been in a worse situation but President Muhammadu Buhari given the fall of Afghanistan, given the massive movement of people who have a feeling that the West African province belongs to them by birth, and therefore Muslims of West African origin, and Christians, in their opinion, are infidels and therefore must be wiped out
“The President did thoroughly tutored on the subject of global security. And I think it will be child’s play for anybody to misunderstand the enormity of the security challenges of this nation.” he added.