I will not leave government as a failure – President Buhari

<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">President Buhari has pledged not to leave the office of presidency as a failure come 2023 Nigeria general election&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">He disclosed this while speaking during a closed-door meeting with service chiefs at the statehouse&comma; today August 19th&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">According to him&comma; he is ready and determined to resolve issues surrounding insecurity across Nigeria&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is evident that a lot of successes have been recorded&period; Large numbers of people are surrendering in the Northeast as a consequence of the relentless efforts of the armed forces&comma; intelligence and security agencies&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">This is very&comma; very evident&period; We’ve never had such large numbers of people defecting from the other side&comma; back to the Nigerian side&comma; mainly&comma; as a result of many issues within the theatre&comma; issues of infighting among the various factions of the terrorist groups&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">But the new drive of the armed forces&comma; the police&comma; the intelligence agencies&comma; there’s been greatest cooperation&comma; greater synergy intelligence sharing&comma; as well as our partners in the regional intelligence fusion unit&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">So the president was briefed&period; The president is quite happy that there’s been tremendous success&comma; especially with the advent of the new service chiefs and inspector-general of police&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">And he’s also made it very&comma; very clear that he’s not ready to exit government as a failure&period; He is not going to tolerate that he’s made changes and is ready to make further changes if he is not satisfied&period; He is completely determined to ensure that there’s a turnaround in the fortunes in the theatre of operations&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Also&comma; Babagana Monguno&comma; the National Security Adviser &lpar;NSA&rpar;&comma; revealed that Nigerian military has recorded successes in tackling insecurity&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;