The ambassador-designate of Nigeria to the United Nations, Jimoh Ibrahim, says President Bola Tinubu is in talks with Britain, the United States and Türkiye, among others, to address Nigeria’s security challenges.
Ibrahim stated this on Friday in New York upon his arrival to assume duty as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, assuring that Tinubu would resolve the country’s security problems.
He explained that Nigeria was not focusing on only one country, adding that any nation with solutions to Nigeria’s security challenges was being engaged.
“Nigeria is our country. We can have problems like Boko Haram but we are embarking on multilateral engagements to solve them,” he said.
“We are not looking for one single country to come and help us. We are looking for many countries to come and help us.
“As America is there, the President is talking to Türkiye and we just left London; Britain is coming to assist.
“As we engage stakeholders, we welcome people that want to help us solve our problems and we hold them in high esteem.”
He stressed that every country has faced challenges at one point or another, citing the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
According to him, Tinubu sent him to the UN to rally the global community in support of Nigeria.
The immediate past senator who represented Ondo before his ambassadorial appointment insisted that Nigeria remains one indivisible country.
“The president must be successful. Nigeria must be one indivisible sovereign nation,” he said.
“We all know that sovereignty is not absolute but to the extent that we are one is an excitement for Mr President.
“Anything contrary to that is unheard of, undoable, unachievable. It’s one sovereignty. We are all from different backgrounds but we like ourselves.
“Nigeria is a unique country for the world to reference. Nigeria must be one, can only be one. So let us have that very clearly in our minds.”
The Nigerian envoy stressed that it was better for the world for Nigeria to remain one country and expressed confidence that the nation would overcome its current security challenges.
“What I’ve got to deliver here is that Nigeria must be one and indivisible — cannot be divided, cannot be discussed.
“The question about the division of Nigeria cannot be discussed and cannot be heard of. We will clearly pass that message.”
He also underscored the need for officers of Nigeria’s permanent mission to project the administration’s agenda, noting that they were sent to showcase the best of the country.
“We need to be very innovative to carry out President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which has its own foreign elements,” Ibrahim said.
“The president is very serious and is working hard to make sure our foreign policy is re-engineered to reflect the Renewed Hope Agenda.
“He has sent me here to put the Renewed Hope Agenda in very clear terms to our multilateral partners and to our bilateral offices that we have across the world.”
The new Nigerian envoy was received on arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport by officers of the Permanent Mission and the Consulate General of Nigeria in New York.
