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Sowore Sparks Reactions After Saying His ‘Minister Of Defence Will Be A Drone’

African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has stirred massive reactions online after making a bold statement about how he plans to tackle insecurity in Nigeria.

Speaking about the country’s growing security challenges, Sowore said that if he becomes president, his “Minister of Defence will be a drone,” emphasizing the importance of technology, intelligence gathering, and modern security operations in fighting banditry and violent crimes.

The statement quickly went viral across social media platforms, with Nigerians divided over whether the comment reflects innovative thinking or political sensationalism.

According to Sowore, Nigeria’s security system requires stronger intelligence coordination, advanced surveillance systems, and real-time response mechanisms instead of what he described as outdated approaches to tackling insecurity.

Supporters praised the statement as a sign that Nigeria needs modern solutions similar to those used by advanced countries in combating terrorism and organized crime.

Critics, however, argued that solving insecurity involves more than technology alone, pointing to issues such as corruption, poor governance, unemployment, and weak institutions.

The controversy has now sparked wider conversations online about the role of drones, artificial intelligence, and digital surveillance in modern warfare and national security.

As reactions continue to trend online, many Nigerians are debating whether technology-driven security reforms could genuinely transform the country’s fight against insecurity.

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That is why you will never be president. You think SUG and FG is the same thing.

Your mumu never do? Abeg rest

Aleister:
That is why you will never be president. You think SUG and FG is the same thing.

Chai............Who will save this nation come 2027…...I need answers.

Aleister:
That is why you will never be president. You think SUG and FG is the same thing.

Even an average SUG president wouldn’t make such a silly suggestion

Exactly sir. Nothing more nothing less.

lionshare:
Even an average SUG president wouldn’t make such a silly suggestion

Sowore think say Nigeria is his community, a whole Nigeria!

Is that Sowore manifestos? Wonder shall never end

Sowore shud contesting his state elections as has been advised here several times.


Its always easier said than done

Sowore should stop wasting his money on presidential election. He should go and start from House of Reps or Senate

This is Madness!
Will the drones operate themselves?
Nigerian's problem goes beyond using terminologies!
Our problem is our failing institutions and absence of an effective enforcement system!

This one is never serious

This guy, who is in his mid-fifties, still doesn't appear to be serious and forthright. I have watched a few of his interviews, and he sounds unconvincing.

Plus your jazz man and his jazz

Ehhhh. This one no enter oo 😔

But there's nothing silly about what he said.
The use of drones will greatly reduce our reliance on the use of Able bodied soldiers.

That way we can attack actual terrorist hideouts without having to risk human lives.
We can even have military drone centers on most highways as their response time will make it harder for kidnappers to operate on our roads.
Think about it.

Dogalmighty17:
Exactly sir. Nothing more nothing less.

Who operates the drones?
Who will the operator be answerable to?
Who ensures that the right operator is selected?

Always coming out to contest through his private party. Oga na normal thing. Talk we know u 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You guys don't understand wat he means...wat he's trying to say is... He will use drones more to carry out defence activities the minister of defence will not be involved much. I will do same to. Because the military is compromised. I will not send soldiers to the war front anymore.. I will only use drones.. u gerit?

thesicilian:
Sowore should stop wasting his money on presidential election. He should go and start from House of Reps or Senate

who told U he is wasting money? Rather he is making more money.

SecuritybriefNg:
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Even people who make drones have defence minister.
You that want to buy the say you will use the drone as your defense minister

My second choice after Tinubu.

Others are jokers.

bentenny:
Who operates the drones?
Who will the operator be answerable to?
Who ensures that the right operator is selected?

Military Chiefs naa.

Must we have a defense minister?

brightzstart:
But there's nothing silly about what he said.
The use of drones will greatly reduce our reliance on the use of Able bodied soldiers.

That way we can attack actual terrorist hideouts without having to risk human lives.
We can even have military drone centers on most highways as their response time will make it harder for kidnappers to operate on our roads.
Think about it.

The critics messiah Gringory Obi, & his Oga Abubakar Atiku have till date never professed any solution to insecurity.

Sowore stop living a delusion. Even if this was tied down to Presidential Street Contest of your Street you would still not win. Okay, let's narrow it down to family President of your family, you still would not win..

lildush:
You guys don't understand wat he means...wat he's trying to say is... He will use drones more to carry out defence activities the minister of defence will not be involved much. I will do same to. Because the military is compromised. I will not send soldiers to the war front anymore.. I will only use drones.. u gerit?

Do drones fly on their own? Will there not be someone to procure and operate them.

lildush:
You guys don't understand wat he means...wat he's trying to say is... He will use drones more to carry out defence activities the minister of defence will not be involved much. I will do same to. Because the military is compromised. I will not send soldiers to the war front anymore.. I will only use drones.. u gerit?

Do drones fly on their own? Will there not be someone to procure and operate them.

lionshare:
Even an average SUG president wouldn’t make such a silly suggestion

Don't mind the clout chaser.
That was how he said he would do the Ibadan to Lagos road in 6 months.
Even America has a defense secretary.

I dont know who is more delusional between this guys and peter OBI

He thinks governance is vibes and inshallah.