The vice president, Mr Kashim Shettima has said that military engagement in the insurgency war in the northwest will not end the crisis “unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition.”
Shettima stated this yesterday at the Government House, Kano where he had gone to commiserate with the government and people of Kano State on the death of an elder statesman, Mr. Abubakar Galadanci.
Shettima, who was accompanied on the visit by the senate president, Mr Barau Jibrin, told journalists that there cannot be a military solution to the crises in the northwest.
“There has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution,” he added.
Shettima revealed that the Tinubu administration had come up with an initiative to address insurgency and poverty, among other challenges confronting Nigerians, especially those living in the northern region.
“The social exclusion is also something that the president is determined to frontally confront and in the coming weeks he is going to unveil the pulaaku solution.
“In the next couple of weeks, we will unveil the Pulaaku solution, which will address the grievances and social exclusion of our Fulbe cousins in the northwest and also towards addressing the root causes of all the banditry and insurgency in the nation.
“The president is determined to define the meaning and concept of modern governance and the crisis we have in the northwest, which is further accentuated by poverty,” he said.
