Tinubu to unveil new security initiative soon — VP, Shettima

• President Tinubu will unveil an initiative in the coming weeks to address insurgency and poverty in the north
• The initiative is called the “Pulaku solution” and will address the grievances and social exclusion of the Fulbe people in the northwest
• The Vice President visited Kano and Katsina to pay his condolences to the families of the late Imam Galadanci and Hajiya Aisha Dahiru

President Bola Tinubu will unveil an initiative in the coming weeks to address insurgency and poverty, among other challenges confronting Nigerians, particularly those in the north.

Vice President Kashim Shettima revealed this to journalists on Sunday during a condolence visit to Kano.

He 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 confront frontally, 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.

According to Olusola Abiola, Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, the vice president, who was accompanied by the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Barau Jibrin, among others, were in Kano to express condolences to the government and people of Kano on the death of Alhaji Abubakar Imam Galadanci.

Earlier, after being greeted by Governor Abba Yusuf, the Vice President went to the residence of the Emir of Bichi, HRH, Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero, and expressed President Tinubu’s condolences on the death of the late Imam Galadanci.

The vice president then went to the family compound of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam Galadanci, where he was greeted on behalf of the extended family by Prof. Shehu Galadanci and Air Vice Marshal Nura Imam (Rtd).

On behalf of President Bola Tinubu, the Vice President expressed condolences and prayed to Allah to grant the deceased eternal rest and to console the entire Galadanci family.

Prof Shehu Galadanci, thanking the Vice President on behalf of the family, emphasised the importance of unity of purpose among northern leaders and urged Nigerians to always support the Tinubu administration in prayers and otherwise for the success of its programmes and policies.

The Vice President then flew to Katsina to pay his condolences to renowned businessman Alhaji Dahiru Mangal on the death of his first wife, Hajiya Aisha Dahiru, who died Saturday evening in Abuja following a brief illness.

Hajiya Mangal was buried in accordance with Islamic customs.

Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the House of Representatives from Kano, and Alhaji Ibrahim Masari, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters, were also among the vice president’s delegation.