Muhammad Badaru was governor of Jigawa State for two consecutive terms from 2015 to 2023
Residents of Jigawa State were not surprised when President Bola Tinubu nominated their immediate past governor, Muhammad Badaru, for ministerial appointment. After all, he was the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the North-western state.
Nigeria’s Northwest geopolitical zone is under the siege of terrorists, locally called bandits. Mass abduction and kidnapping for ransom are rampant in five of the seven states in the region – Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina and Zamfara. The two exceptions have been Mr Badaru’s Jigawa and its sister state of Kano – the two were a single state until they were split in 1991.
Last February, Mr Badaru told the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council’s ‘Business Made Easy’ team how his state managed to keep itself relatively safe from banditry in the North-west region. “We introduced mobile veterinary services in 30 wards that enable the herders to get veterinary services in their own villages, giving the herders a sense of belonging.”
“But this was not handled well in other places and that was why, probably, you see the escalation. And some states got affected by the menace due to their proximity to the banditry-prone states. If they had treated the issue the same way as Jigawa did, that could not have happened,” he said. Minister of Defence, Alhaji Muhammed Badaru Abubakar MON, mni and Honourable Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed MON at Ministry of Defence, Ship House, Abuja on Tuesday 22 August 2023. [PHOTO CREDIT:“This timeline and target will be passed on to the president, and trust he will be monitoring us.
The first president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a former army general, appointed another former army general, Yakubu Danjuma, as the defence minister until 2003 when he replaced him with a former governor of Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso.Badaru, Matawalle assume duty, pledge strong defence apparatus to counter emerging threats
He proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for his advanced level and later graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accountancy in 1985.
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