Negotiating with bandits’ll enrich them, not good strategy – Ganduje replies Kwankwaso

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, has declared that sitting with bandits to negociate is not a bully strategy.

Ganduje warned that negotiating with bandits would further enrich the terrorists, thereby worsening insecurity successful the country.

He made the remark astatine a property league connected Tuesday successful effect to claims by the vice-presidential campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Kwankwaso, that helium and the party’s statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, would clasp talks with terrorists if elected into bureau successful 2027.

According to Ganduje: “The relation of the information agencies depends connected the strategies that person been adopted. The Air Force helps to bash its ain owed diligence, alongside the Army, Navy, the police, and the DSS. So, the contented of sitting with bandits to negociate with them personally, I don’t admit that.

“Because, successful Nigeria, having a weapon without support is illegal. How bash you expect hundreds of bandits to travel from the forests with their guns to beryllium down with section chiefs, chairmen of section governments, accepted rulers, oregon adjacent the constabulary and commencement negotiating? I deliberation that strategy has failed, and it volition proceed to fail.

“This is due to the fact that we are giving country to the bandits; we are arming them due to the fact that the dialog is that they should beryllium allo...