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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

Badaru Abubakar, Defence Minister, Resigns

Nigeria's defence minister, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned his appointment, with immediate effect.

In a letter dated December 1, sent to President Bola Tinubu, Abubakar said he was quitting on health grounds.

President Tinubu has accepted the resignation and thanked Abubakar for his services to the nation.

President Tinubu will likely inform the Senate of Badaru's successor later this week.

Badaru Abubakar, 63, was a two-term governor of Jigawa state from 2015 to 2023. He was appointed as a minister on August 21, 2023, by President Tinubu.

His resignation comes amid President Tinubu's declaration of a national security emergency, with plans to elaborate on its scope in due course.

-Bayo Onanuga,
Special Adviser to the President,
(Information and Strategy)
December 1, 2025

fergie001:
He was forced to resign.

Likely appointing a retired military personnel in his stead.

kaltonga:
Long overdue, Tinubu should be smart enough to realize that the insecurity caused by Fulani tribesmen and the security architecture should not be handled by the same people causing the problem, look for another tribe or person to handle that office.
The next to go should be the NSA and the Minister of State for defence.

fergie001:
The Minister of State Defence who protected the bandits many times as Governor. This is the first time since '99, we won't have the NSA and/or the Minister of Defence as Military men.

My first guess is CG Musa.... He was at the Villa today.

bookson:
We are investigating the incidence of troops withdrawal from Kebbi school before bandits attack and the defense minister is suddenly retiring on health ground?

This coincidence is not sellable fa

HarunaWest:
Have same feeling. He was prolly retired so he can be made the MOD.

bookson:
We are investigating the incidence of troops withdrawal from Kebbi school before bandits attack and the defense minister is suddenly retiring on health ground?

This coincidence is not sellable fa

Antoeni:
Congratulations to Lt Gen Christopher Musa Rtd The Incoming Minister Of Defence

motymop:
Haha..lol..he must be guilty of something for him to resign.

Apparently, a Islamic scholar came out to say he called for the release of a bandit saying the bandit was his boy.