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From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
More reactions have continued to trail the rescue of Kuriga schoolchildren with a chieftain of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, thanking President Bola Tinubu, National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, the governor of Kaduna state, Uba Sani among others that played important roles in the rescue.
Ajaka, in the statement he issued on Monday in Abuja, also emphasised the need for Nigerians to eschew sentiments and shun hatred for one another.
He appealed to Nigerians to support President Tinubu-led administration the decisive, epic and terminal onslaught against violent and non-state antagonists of the Nigerian state.
The SDP candidate for last year’s November 2023 Kogi state currently challenging the victory of Governor Usman Ododo in Court, noted that President Tinubu deserved all the encomiums showered on him for the successful operation.
“Indeed, this milestone has brought immeasurable relief and assurances of safety to both the relatives of the victims and other Nigerians who have been sceptical of the ability of our security forces and the intelligence community to successfully grapple with and conclusively vanquish the menace of hydra-headed insecurity and widespread violent criminality in the country over the past couple of years.
“No nation can register meaningful development without peace, stability, equity and justice. Conclusively, I enjoin all Nigerians to eschew divisive sentiments, shun hatred for one another and support the administration of President Tinubu in the decisive, epic and terminal onslaught against violent and non-state antagonists of the Nigerian state.
“This call has become urgent and necessary in view of the fact that the nation cannot register meaningful development without peace, stability, equity and justice,” he noted in the statement.
Commending the combined efforts of those that contributed to the rescue, Ajaka noted that: “the credit for this breakthrough deservedly rests in the bosom of Mr. President, Tinubu, whose prodigious and strategic re-modelling, planning and mobilisation of the security architecture in Nigeria is fast yielding the overall desired outcomes of safety and overwhelming restoration of confidence in the minds and spirits of Nigerians.
“I, therefore, write to congratulate Mr President, the National Security Adviser (NSA), the Governor of Kaduna State, the Service Chiefs of our Armed Forces, The Inspector General of Police, the Director General of the Department of State Services, the patriotic media organisations, proud volunteers, fearless informants and the traditional institutions for all their swift synergistic collaborations that birthed this successful rescue operation.
“I therefore, salute Mr. President for being a listening leader whose altruistic foresight of a new Nigeria and the astute strategies for the realisation thereof are squarely anchored on self-sacrifice, unwhittled faith in God, spartan discipline and the spirit of cooperation amongst all Nigerians and our nation’s institutions.
“Evidently, the planning and operational synergy between our various security agencies constitute the substratum of the subject endeavour that we celebrate today,” the statement read.
