President Bola Tinubu has described himself as a very stubborn politician.
Tinubu made the declaration in reaction to what he said was a plot by his “enemies” want to use the rising insecurity in the country to get rid of him from office.
The president who was speaking on Wednesday in Abuja at the State House when he received a delegation from Plateau State led by Governor Caleb Mutfwang following the repeated killings in the state, said that “I just refuse to go. And I will campaign for my second term.”
Tinubu said he will contest the 2027 elections despite criticism over the worsening insecurity.
“You are playing to the hand of agents, including my own enemies, who want to use insecurity to get rid of me,” Tinubu said.
He told the leaders from the state to return home and engage in a meeting on how to bring about peace in the state, just as he urged them to review the white paper on attacks in the state and implement the recommendations.
He pledged to work with the National Assembly on the creation of state police to address some of the issues of insecurity.
“The leaders will go back home and summon the leadership meeting. Pretend that I’m there or pretend that I’m absent because you are still going to give me feedback,” Tinubu said.
“Thank God all the former governors are alive and here. Call one another. Ignore the governors’ committee or incorporate them. Take that white paper or gazette and that; go through it and agree to implement the white paper.”
The state has experienced a series of deadly attacks in different parts of the state during which scores have been killed and property worth billions of naira were destroyed in recent months.
