Joshua Omojuwa
They share a lot of things in common, including an alignment of friends and former allies. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and the Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani showed that there yet more layers to their shared beliefs. This was poignant for me because just a day before the NSA was speaking on the “Kaduna Peace Model” on Tuesday 22nd July 2025, I was on a podcast session with Seun Okinbaloye, making a point about the need to have Uba Sani’s multidimensional model of security adopted across the country. It turns out, Kaduna turning chaos into opportunities for healing, progress and prosperity is being noticed by those who aren’t insisting on having their eyes closed.
Before then, I didn’t realise this was already something that had been considered by the NSA himself, until his speech at the “Commissioning of Phase 1 of the Qatar Charity Sanabil Project and Distribution of Houses to Families of Victims of Banditry” at the Economic City, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Whilst prestigious platforms like THISDAY have commended Governor Uba Sani for the manner and relative speed in which he is helping to institute peace, justice and healing in Kaduna, it is yet another level of validation for his methods that the nation’s national security tsar is taking a public stand to say that a state that was primarily known for bloodshed and in-fighting is indeed a model for the rest of the country. All these just about two years into the Sani administration.