There is a President missing in action. His capacity has been tested. Buhari has woefully failed Nigerians. Boko Haram has taken over large swaths of lands in Niger, Kaduna, Borno, and other northern states, planting their flags of sovereignty on the soil of a supposedly independent nation.

“Nigeria now possesses all the ingredient of a failed state. There is no leadership, no governance, no one in charge. We are fast drifting to the precipice. Inexorable.”

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Many Nigerians including senators and governors have in the last 48 hours urged the President, a former military head of state, to seek foreign help to put a stop to the ceaseless bloodshed and kidnappings nationwide.

Buhari finally caved in to pressure on Tuesday when he asked the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, for the support of the Joe Biden administration to tackle the security menace in Nigeria.

Buhari, who warned of a likely spill over of insecurity to neighbouring West African states, also called on the US to consider relocating US Africa Command from Stuttgart, Germany, to Africa, nearer the Theatre of Operation.