STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
SECURITY CHALLENGES: PRESIDENT JONATHAN SUMMONS GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has summoned members of the National Security Council to a meeting tomorrow at the Presidential Villa against the background of recent events and developments in the country.
The meeting which will be presided over by President Jonathan is scheduled for 1100 hours.
Those expected at the meeting include Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen Aliyu Gusau, the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the State Security Services and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency.
The meeting of the National Security Council will be followed at 1300 Hours by an enlarged meeting on security developments in the country to which President Jonathan has invited State Governors.
President Jonathan, members of the National Security Council and the state governors will review the security situation in the country as well as ongoing national security measures and operations with a view to determining the best way forward.
President Jonathan reassures all Nigerians and persons living in the country that the Federal Government remains very mindful of its responsibility for the safety of their lives and properties in all parts of Nigeria and will continue to do everything possible to protect them from the scourge of terrorism and insecurity.
The President is particularly concerned about the plight of the young Senior Secondary School girls who were reportedly abducted from their school in Borno State on Monday night and has ordered the military and national security agencies to deploy maximum efforts towards rescuing all of the girls and returning them safely to their parents. He welcomes reports that the military and security agencies have already rescued some of the girls.
President Jonathan deeply regrets the pain, sorrow and anguish brought upon many Nigerian families in recent days as a consequence of recurring security challenges which the nation is contending with.
The President remains convinced that with the patriotic commitment and support of all Nigerians, the country will ultimately overcome its present challenges and move forward in unity and strength.
In this regard, President Jonathan will be pleased to see all politicians in the country exhibiting greater responsibility and patriotism by doing more to support his administration’s sincere efforts to enhance national security rather than trying to build political capital out of the pain and misery of their compatriots.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
April 16, 2014
I pray the meeting is not a show! That it will provide much needed answer to the security challenges in Nigeria
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I see humans but NOT humanity!!!!!!!
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DeleteI think everyone should fight this, we can't all expect goodluck to go there and fight, when we were in kd and there was a riot during objz time how many people waited for soldiers
Our men stood up, went in search of their other christain brothers and killed muslims also in the process
The average nigerian youth doznt want to stand up and fight,if you tell them to gather for dmp or pool parties in abuja that's all they are good for
Where are the didan kimathiz of our time? Or malcolmX we do not have willing youths who are ready to fight for our country
I swear goodluck can't do it alone, most of the youths are saying they would run to their states, what if boko finishes with the north and enters the east is that when we would all fight back
The isrealists fought back in the bible and I know they knew God better than we do, we can't wait for God
Rather with the help of God we would fight back, let's make aa silent army of our own, train and get ready
In southern kaduna any time muslims rise up to challange the christains they fight for themselves we too can do that
Help the government too, I know of a catholic church in maiduguri who dicided to fight back and protected their church with guns saying if they died there atleast they died fighting back
We have to fight back the boko muslims aint more than we christains
Weda we like it or not this is war, this is how it started in ruwanda from normal hatred to full blown war
We would pray, we should pray but we should also fight back, everyone should get a fucking gun mehn, fight back no matter how you are, you sense any aboki trying to fuck you up, you shoot
The govt has to listen to us and accept thisn we have to fight for our country if we cliam to love it, taking selfies and husband snatching wunt cut it biliv me mehn
We don see you oh! Stella the ass-licker
ReplyDeleteAunty Stella GEJ read my point#3 on a previous post below:
ReplyDelete3#- Why is all these the job of the president. Don't we have a senate who should be voting on declaring war or passing some kind of law?
***This is my tot exactly the country's security is not only the job of the president. As the bible says "God save Israel out of all its trouble". God please save Nigeria out of all its trouble.
Okay!!!...
ReplyDeleteI think the most annoying thing is that Jonathan never addresses the nation when tragedy like this strucks. 20 mins TV broadcast is enough to pacify the pain we feel but no, he'd rather go and do faaji and send Abati to come and yarn dust. Always summoning and not taking one single action, I bet he would also organize a committee to analyse how the bomb exploded.
ReplyDeleteYes!! Day just break
ReplyDeleteMr President is like you don't get it,once you guys have an open meeting,an open party or a open gathering; they tend to strike again;you need to change your strategy and improvise;its obvious most of the leaders even in the so-called PDP do not like him as their leader (YES don't be surprise), Mr President you can do this by your self, you don't even need much noise,get an underdog,contact security experts abroad,this your open meeting propaganda should stop,its obvious that the sponsors are more technical and have better information on the goings in the county; don't act a coward and act let this people destroy all you have laboured for,change your strategy;after this meetings with the governors;there might be anothrr strike; we have prayed but let's also use our brain.
ReplyDeleteOh Kaycee shut your trap, you try sound smart but you are pretty dumb. So calling the governors and service chiefs is now propaganda in your books? Define propaganda? So he can do this all alone ba? In a federal system of government ? Without consulting anybody? Even Obama does not make any decision without consulting his party and the congress so shut the fuck and stop trying to sound like you know it all. Foreign contacts yea, like he told you he hasn't consulted them already. He should come out and recite classified information so your likes will be satisfied.
DeleteGood point without the insult biko
DeleteAnonymous 11.19 make ur response without cursing out.. I see u re sooo upset with kaycee not because of this post. Easy abeg. I dont like his comment sometime but I don't need to curse him, he was right with his comment.
DeleteI hope he terminates their appointments as they gather there cos as far as I am concerned they are just collecting salaries for nothing!! Whoever is not ready to deliver should tender his resignation. Innocent people are dying because of these group of men listed here. If not for any other thing, most of these security leaders are northerners. Charity begins at home. Can't they at least for the sake of their people try to save their northern zones from these calamities? Wickedness in high places.
ReplyDeleteThey are making the country ungovernable because the President is from that part of `Nigeria right? so the next president will come from the other part and they will expect peace? why are we one Nigerian if the leaders can only come from one part of Nigeria???
ReplyDeleteGEJ govt has failed, strikes every institution, fuel scarcity, No Power even in FCT wit ol d claims of increasing d megawatts, look @ wat his ministers r doin- looting here n there... Nothing is working again wo! Is it also BH doin it or North.. We nigerians r just ignorant n don't knw out ryts, we've been brained washed n divided through ethnoreligious tribalism so that we don't even have clear eyes to wats goin on.... So sad fr this great nation :( its obvious he cannot handle it
DeleteBe deceiving yourself was obj not from the south? Did you hear all this ,the earlier you tell yourself your pres is a weakling the better
DeleteAnon thank you,religion and tribalism has blocked their reasoning,pls tell one good thing this govt has done just one sector that is working or a corrupt leader that is been persecuted im sure it is the north that are behind it too
DeleteWhich military personnel rescued the children? The children rescued themselves o jare. Let them not come and take the glory of these kids. Did any military van pursue these people in any attempt to rescue the kids? Even when they knew the direction they were going. Oh maybe, I have been watching plenty oyibo action movies and forgot this is Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThose children are not rescued , they were found by the vigilantes after they ran into the bush , this people should stop taking glory for the efforts those girls made pls. Ok o uncle Jona , let's admit they were rescued are they rescuing them in batches, ok ,,, then when should we expect batch B & batch C etc. let them get back to work and bring those children back home go there'd families o.
DeleteHahahaha dont mind them, we know the truth already
DeleteIssorai. Waitinq patiently 4d outcome!
ReplyDeleteWORST PRESIDENT EVER to come out of FGN. He is calling meeting after dancing kukere today at Kano for political rally, medicine after death. I believe when people criticise you as human, you work hard to prove them wrong but not this man. With all criticism the past years and weeks he doesn't change his attitude toward issues facing the nation, Nigeria is boiling and we don't need weakly as head of state. He is surrounded by bad advisers from all angle, I pray he doesn't rule this nation next year because another 4years of GEJ is goodbye for Nigeria.
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ReplyDeleteI'm too busy to read his nonsense letter.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told I am now scared. Wish I cud move all my family out of this country. It seems if its becoming worse every day. Today meeting,2moro meeting yet nothing to show 4 it. I so hope dis one yeild a better result. Ada Agu
ReplyDeleteI hope they are able to find a lasting solution. These are perilous times, God have mercy on us.
ReplyDeleteStella, I'm just hearing that a ship carrying over 300 students has capsized in south Korea, with over 200 still missing
Jonathan and Reuben, stop talking and start acting NOW. It is absolutely disgraceful of u to call for a meeting after attending a party and a rally. It shows where ur interest lies.
ReplyDeleteI stopped believing in u a long time ago Jonathan. I thot u would redeem my country. U re yet to do that. Start acting and secure the lives of Nigerians. Sack those who cannot perform. Imprison those who have been found corrupt. Create jobs Jonathan and for heaven's sake, provide electricity.
Jolomi
Nigerians should help in this fight of terrorism cos this is no more about the president.
ReplyDeleteYes my dear o, even in the Bible ppl fought back, isrealists fought back the egyptians and many other people by the help of God
DeleteWe need to fight back
So they want a president from the north, how long would we continue to give them what they want in the name of peace
Pls let's not turn peace to foolishness
And we should stop going to school, so we with jobs how do we feed
Their requiremnts are unrealistic mhn
I say kill them all, everyone should be their keeper
Shoot before you ask questions
Goodluck is confused as confused as you and I
You say he should take action oya now advice, what should he do
Invite troops from america? Send our whole army there leaving other parts unattended to?
What exactly, so we should send out souldiers while we sleep in our beds
I lost a friend this year, sunday peter I know what it feels like, learn to fight
Register in classes
Stop waiting for goodluck,we can't all become muslims to pls them na
Day just break 4am abi?After partying in ibadan his eyes hv finally cleared abi? And whr did dey rescue some of d girls? Liars!! Pls sum1 shld answer me o!
ReplyDeleteFellow Nigerians, we have spoken evil collectively over this land; we have looked the other way when evil was perpetrated and we are reaping the harvest of seeds sown.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to exchange our vocal diatribes and insensitive nonchalance against Nigeria and its leadership to making God ordained decrees to recover the indefatigable soul of our nation. Thankfully we are not strangers to prayer and fasting in Nigeria ....
If we were as continuously and consistently desirous of good as the enemy is desirous of evil, we would emerge victorious.
At this moment we decree Divine Wisdom Understanding Counsel Might Knowledge and Fear of The Lord (Isaiah 11:1-5) upon the leadership of Nigeria.
Regardless of the attendees' political and ungodly agenda, regardless of their religious spiritual inclination or persuasion, we decree that it is the purpose of The Lord that will stand (Isaiah 46:11).
We carry Divine judgment to the gate of the enemy (Isaiah 28:6) to frustrate the tokens of liars we make diviners mad turn their evil wisdom and knowledge backward into their own foolishness and destruction (Isaiah 44:25).
We decree the obliteration of evil in this land and the enthronement and establishment of the will, purpose and righteousness of The Lord (Isaiah 46:11).
PSALM 68:1-5
"Let The Lord arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them also that hate Him flee before Him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of The Lord. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before The Lord: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Sing unto The Lord, sing praises to his name: extol Him that rideth upon the heavens by His Name JAH, and rejoice before Him. A Father of the fatherless, and a Judge of the widows, is The Lord in His holy habitation"
WriCre8@aol.com
AMEN!!! Only God can save Nigeria!
DeleteHmmmm! No b today we begin hear summon matter. Aftr d series of meetings, shit remains d same. Baba God na ur hand I dey
ReplyDeleteNa today!
ReplyDeleteGEJ, we want actions and results!
Talk is cheap! We need action o jare. Stella, imagine a country where there are no body bags to carry corpses. Yet, some hypocrites shared iphones at a certain wedding. We are gradually approaching a failed state Oloun!
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God will continue to give you the wisdom to fight this faceless monsters sir....
ReplyDeleteI wonder what these monsters want from Nigeria apart from the obvious...Making the country too "hot" for GEJ.
God save our country!!!
I hate that 'deeply regret ' part, its like an automated response. I hope this time around they will be on their toes. God please heal our land
ReplyDeleteNow you are talking. More like it.
ReplyDeleteAre all invited parties trustworthy?
ReplyDeleteSome of them could be sponsors and traitors
Stella wetin tessbaby do u wey too big 4 u 2 4give?
ReplyDeleteAND IF GEJ RESIGNS OR DECIDES NOT TO RUN IN 2015
ReplyDelete....WOULD THERE BE PEACE?? YOU THINK?? DELUSION....GOD SAVE OUR COUNTRY.
Even my area sef is not safe. As I write 3.28am, there are a series of gun shots taking place outside my house and it is not even funny. Prayed and now trying to keep my mind busy here lest I faint. Thank God for the mopol the street employed in order to keep us residing here safe. Funny, everyone seems to be sleeping through this, apparently, it is a normal experience. If only the day can just break already. Thank God for NEPA tonight. Nowhere is safe o, My God.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the clueless GEJ summoning his fellow clueless officials to a meeting that's unlikely to produce any result?
ReplyDeleteNo owambe or party campaign to attend?
Shior.
Stories dat touch the intestines. Stella I was waiting for you 2 add your own comment below that letter in ur usual manner. God save u
ReplyDeleteI hope somfin gud comes out of it.
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May we be able to find solution to this evil on our land. AMEN!
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