President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) that his administration will end all forms of insecurity in the country.
The president gave the assurance when he met with governors from the region at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday.
The meeting was attended by the Chair of the Northern Governors Forum, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State; Governor of Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu; Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai; Yobe, Mai Mala-Buni, Niger, Abubakar Bello; and Nasarawa, Abdullahi Sule.
Also in attendance was the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari.
In the meeting, the governors took turns to narrate their experiences, individual efforts at finding lasting solutions as well as expectations from the federal government.
The various forms of insecurity range from insurgency in the North-east and banditry to kidnappings in the North-west and North-central states.
Buhari assured that he would put an end to the menace and return the region and the country at large to its lost glories.
The President’s words was made known by Governor Lalong, who said they have been assured.
He said the meeting was basically about the insecurity in many parts of the region.
“Well, this meeting is in respect of some of the common features of insecurity that we have within our states. You’ll recall that many of the states have some of the insecurities that are very similar.
“So we put them together and see how to address some of those issues. And we felt that we must also meet Mr. President about it since it is about insecurity,” Mr Lalong said.
