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[qupte]President Bola Tinubu is set to name a new Minister of Defence this week following the sudden resignation of the incumbent, Badaru Abubakar, who quit the cabinet on health grounds.

Abubakar’s resignation, which takes immediate effect, was conveyed in a letter dated December 1 and addressed to the President.

The development was announced in a statement issued Monday evening by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

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

“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,” it added, indicating that the process to replace the minister is already underway.

Abubakar, 63, served as a two-term governor of Jigawa State from 2015 to 2023 before his appointment as Minister of Defence on August 21, 2023.

His exit comes at a sensitive moment for the administration, which is grappling with rising insecurity that recently compelled President Tinubu to declare a nationwide security emergency.

The President had unveiled new measures including the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers, deployment of forest guards, and heightened security for schools, churches and mosques in vulnerable communities.

There have also been persistent calls from some analysts for Abubakar’s removal, with critics arguing that he was unfit to lead the ministry.

Hours before the announcement of his resignation, Tinubu met privately with former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), at the State House.

Our correspondent sighted Musa arriving at 7:03 p.m., dressed in dark-green northern-style traditional attire with elbow-length sleeves, before being led into the President’s office wing by a senior security official.

It was his first public meeting with the President since his retirement on October 24, 2025.

The purpose of the meeting could not be immediately confirmed, but it further fuelled speculation about who might replace Abubakar as Defence Minister.[/quote]https://punchng.com/tinubu-plans-replacement-as-defence-minister-resigns/?amp

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Lolz, the guy that said bombs can't penetrate the forest where terrorists are ...

He did well to resign...

This is a first in a lifetime situation in the history of Nigeria. Knowing that you have failed and not having new innovation or ideas to combat the menace of insecurity in the country.

Tinubu, you do this one, demanding he resign. Hopefully, your new appointee will do a beta job.

Voluntarily? Or soft landing?

The president Tinubu should join him. He has failed

"An Attack on Boko Haram is an Attack on the North" ~~Buhari

Majority of Northern Muslims hold same viewpoint as Buhari.
So any fight against Boko Haram & Bandits will always be sabotaged or handled with kid gloves, as long as Northern Muslims occupy principal positions in the Army.

The President is right to clear this riff raff from office

The vestiges of his pact with CPC wing of Buhari just to get power

We saw how much equipment this clown Badaru and Matawlle have been transferring to terrorist and how much intelligence they get

Either by commission or omissions, by incompetence or by active sabotage they have shown to be the enemy within

Somebody actively sabotaging the zamfara state government whose crime was simply to look to help from the fed government through minister of defense after the state was converted to a killing field and kidnapping Gomorrah

We will not delve into their qualifications, the fact that a baboon who has school cert is minister of defense is an insult to career Officiers and PhDs

But Nigeria is a zoo

Maxymilliano:
Lolz, the guy that said bombs can't penetrate the forest where terrorists are ...

He did well to resign...

He is actually right about that.
Most of the forests are so thick that you may need a touchlight to even see your way in day time.
If you can't see them hi ow do you bomb them and dropping bombs into the forest is a wast, they land on the giant trees ....

Some of you don't know what's going on.
You think conventional warfare and terrorism are the same?
If terrorism was so easy the US won't be in Afghanistan for 20years and return without defeating the Talibans.
The current leader of Syria is an ex terrorist leader, he was shaking hands with POUTUS weeks a go in the white house.
America has never won any war against terrorism, check your history books

Remaining Matawalle....

Exousiang01:
He is actually right about that.
Most of the forests are so thick that you may need a touchlight to even see your way in day time.
If you can't see them hi ow do you bomb them and dropping bombs into the forest is a wast, they land on the giant trees ....

Some of you don't know what's going on.
You think conventional warfare and terrorism are the same?
If terrorism was so easy the US won't be in Afghanistan for 20years and return without defeating the Talibans.
The current leader of Syria is an ex terrorist leader, he was shaking hands with POUTUS weeks a go in the white house.
America has never won any war against terrorism, check your history books

stuff your crap back into where you ejected it from..........mumu

Eboofa:
stuff your crap back into where you ejected it from..........mumu

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But the terrorists can see inside the forests,when they kidnap victims too they can move into the forest la without torch lights and they also can move their bikes easily within the thick forests…terrorist sympathizer spotted