Security, Other Interventions: Kaduna Gov Meets Tinubu at State House

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna state yesterday  met with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, to seek more of federal government’s support in the areas of security, healthcare and agriculture.

The governor, who spoke with journalists after the meeting also hailed the president for taking Kaduna’s State’s matter as a priority  for his attention.

Senator Sani said  the president’s had already given instructions to some federal agencies that will execute interventions his state requires for stability.

He, however, noted that without federal and President Tinubu’s intervention, the state would not have been able to achieve some of the things his administration had succeeded in achieving since he became governor in May, 2023.

According to him, “We have some areas where we need Mr. President’s intervention and support especially in the area of security as well as all other important programmes of our own government that have to do with agriculture and healthcare.

“I came here to discuss with Mr. President who has been supportive of what we’re doing in Kaduna.

“So it is just a follo- up, what he has been doing for us and today I came also to remind him on other areas.

“The meeting was very successful. And of course, I am happy because Mr. President has also been able to call some ministries and agencies that we need to collaborate at the level of federal government.

“As a leader, he has been certainly very supportive of what we’re doing in Kaduna. I’m happy also to inform some people of my own state that we have a President that has taken Kaduna very seriously, and he is helping us in areas where we as a state cannot be able to attend to or maybe to handle.

“We need the federal government’s support. He has been supporting us. He has been giving us the leadership and guidance and I want to say here that most of the things we’re doing in Kaduna without the federal government support and Mr. President support we might not achieve a few of them. So I’m happy particularly like I said in area of security. So I that is what brought me here today.

On what specific commitments he secured from the president during the meeting, the governor said: “I had a series of meetings with the service chiefs only recently and of course we need some more boots on the ground in areas like, Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Idebi as well as some local governments around Zangon Kataf, Kaura and some axes of Southern Kaduna.

“He has stepped up his effort of ensuring that the military generally have considered Kaduna as one of the most important states that needs this serious security support and intervention because as you’re aware, security is something to do with the federal government, particularly when it comes to issue of the service chiefs, the police and the DSS and, of course, as someone who has been in National Assembly for four years before being the governor, I know we need the support of the federal government and Mr. President, in particular for us to be able to address the problem of insecurity in our states.”