Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna has applauded President Bola Tinubu for tackling insecurity in the North-West geopolitical zone, adding that under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch, the region was the epicentre of banditry, kidnapping and terrorism.

Mr Sani made this statement at the APC North-West stakeholders meeting held on Saturday in Kaduna, where he compared life in the region to the Hobbesian state of nature under Mr Buhari’s watch.

“Before President Tinubu assumed office in 2023, the North West Zone was the ‘epicentre’ of banditry, terrorism, kidnapping and other violent crimes,” Mr Sani said.

He added, “Life was indeed ‘nasty, short, and brutish’ in the North-West. At a point, the situation appeared hopeless.”

The Kaduna governor said in two years of Mr Tinubu in office, security in states in the North-West region, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara, has improved, adding, “You could hardly travel from one place to another. Farmers could hardly access their farms.

“But two years in the saddle, the situation has changed. President Tinubu has not only stabilised the security situation, but he has also boosted agriculture in the North-West with the provision of farm inputs,” Mr Sani said.

While mobilising other APC stakeholders in the geo-political zone to support Mr Tinubu’s 2027 reelection bid, Mr Sani said ‘’North West has also gotten top positions at the federal level. For the first time, the North-West zone has 12 ministers in the federal cabinet.

‘’We have the Honourable speaker of the House of Representatives, the deputy senate president, the national chairman of the APC, the chief of defence staff, and the chief of air staff. There are many other important appointments which I may not be able to mention here because of time,’’ he added.