03/12/2025
MATAWALLE MUST GO - NIGERIANS WILL NOT TOLERATE A COMPROMISED SECURITY CABINET WHILE GENERAL MUSA FIGHTS TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.
Nigeria is entering a new phase in the war against terrorism.
President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu just "removed" Mohammed Badaru, and for the first time in years, the Ministry of Defence is being reset with a real soldier, General Christopher Musa, a man with battlefield scars and not political perfumes.
But Nigerians are asking the right question:
If Badaru is gone, why is Matawalle still sitting comfortably as Minister of State for Defence?
You cannot deodorize one part of a rotten room and leave the other part smelling of suspicion.
Common sense, security sense, and national survival sense all demand the same conclusion:
MATAWALLE MUST GO.
THE PROBLEM IS SIMPLE: NIGERIANS DO NOT TRUST MATAWALLE.
And trust is not optional in national security - it is compulsory.
There are serious, public, unresolved allegations against Bello Matawalle. A respected Islamic cleric accused him openly of links with terrorists such as Bello Turji. He challenged Matawalle on TV to sue him if the allegations were false.
Till today? Silence.
No lawsuit.
No rebuttal.
No clarification.
No cleansing of his name.
You cannot leave a man with such allegations in the same ministry where counter-terrorism decisions are taken.
It is reckless.
It is dangerous.
It is irresponsible governance.
You do not fight terrorism with ministers who Nigerians believe might be connected to terrorists.
This is not about religion.
Not about ethnicity.
Not about politics.
This is about security integrity.
Nigerians believe that as long as Matawalle remains in that office, General Musa will be sabotaged from within. And Nigerians are right to worry.
TINUBU CANNOT BUILD A NEW DEFENCE ARCHITECTURE ON OLD, COMPROMISED FOUNDATIONS
Badaru is gone because the system was not working. Because insecurity was increasing.
Because the ministry needed a reset.
But what sense does it make to remove the head and leave the tail of the same failed structure?
This is why Nigerians are saying:
If the Minister of Defence (1) resigned, the Minister of Defence (2) must follow.
You cannot keep half of a problem and expect full improvement.
President Tinubu, if you want General Musa to succeed, you must clear the room of anyone whose past or reputation casts a shadow on national security.
SECURITY MINISTERS IN SERIOUS COUNTRIES ARE CLEAN - TOTALLY CLEAN
In countries that take national security seriously:
🇺🇸 The U.S. Secretary of Defense cannot have unresolved allegations of links to enemy groups.
He would be removed the same day.
🇬🇧 The U.K. Home Secretary cannot survive even 24 hours with unverified allegations of collusion with extremists.
🇫🇷 France will never appoint anyone with questionable ties to militant groups - they protect the Republic first before political loyalty.
🇮🇱 Israel’s Defence Minister cannot have even whispers of sympathizing with enemies of the State.
But Nigeria?
We expect General Musa to fight Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, and foreign mercenaries while sitting next to a man many Nigerians believe fraternized with the same terrorists?
It is madness.
And madness must end.
TINUBU MUST CLEAN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE COMPLETELY - NOT PARTIALLY
Mr. President, this is not a small issue.
This is not politics.
This is not “compromise for harmony.”
This is about national survival.
General Musa is coming in to reform the entire security architecture. He will be fighting corruption, sabotage, ego, tribal interference, and political infiltration inside the ministry.
The last thing he needs is a deputy minister whose presence already divides the trust of the Nigerian people.
If General Musa fails, Nigeria fails.
Therefore nobody - absolutely nobody - should be in that ministry unless their integrity is unquestionable.
THE SIMPLE TRUTH
You cannot clean the Ministry of Defence halfway.
You cannot remove the senior minister and leave the junior minister from the same failed structure.
You cannot ask a soldier to fight terrorists while he sits next to someone with unresolved allegations of terrorist sympathy.
Nigeria is tired of emotional politics.
This is the era of brutal truth.
Matawalle must go.
For transparency.
For security.
For national confidence.
For General Musa to succeed.
And for Nigeria to finally have a defence ministry that is not crippled from inside.
If the government is serious about fixing insecurity, this is the first real test.
And the whole country is watching.
