No Indication That President Buhari Is Arriving Soon says Osinbajo

Acting president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that his meeting with security chiefs was not an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari is arriving soon.

The acting president met with security chiefs in the Situation Room of the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock in the Federal Capital Territory, prompting speculation that the president would soon return.

Daily Post reports that when asked if President Buhari’s return was the reasons for the meeting with security chiefs, Osinbajo denied this but said the president would be duly briefed concerning the meeting.

He said: “No no no! Almost every month these briefings are held, it is routine and it is the president who puts in place this whole idea of regular briefing.

“It is even more important that we do so because of some of the issues arising like the cases of kidnappings and I wanted the IG to inform us fully.

“Besides, the President is a process person and certainly I am going to speak with him on developments here.

“So it is not an indication of anything. It is only an indication that we are committed ‎to the security of the nation. The primary duty of government is to ensure lives and properties and that is why we have to be regularly briefed.

“‎The good thing is that our men are going extraordinarily well in the north east and that Southern Kaduna has also been contained. The peace building process is also going on very well,.”

Osinbajo also said that Boko Haram insurgents had been considerably weakened by the Army.

“‎As you know the Boko Haram as a military force has been degraded, they are not holding territory at the moment; our armed forces have been able to dislodge them from practically all territories they were holding in the past.

“What is happening now is just once in a while attacks by bombers. By the nature of asymmetric warfare we are not able to say it has ended now. But I think that militarily they have been contained, there is no question at all that Boko Haram as a fighting force has been degraded.

“We are still vigilant because of their capacity to do damage with bombers. I am very satisfied with what the military has done so far.‎ And the briefing has shown graphically that they are really on top of their game and that they are doing excellently well in the north east.”