People underrate Tinubu at their own peril – Ribadu warns opposition
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, NSA, has taken a swipe at people who he said underrate President Bola Tinubu, warning that such people do so at their own peril.
Ribadu, who spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at the National Cyber Security Conference 2025, with theme, ‘Building a Resilient Digital Future’, criticised critics of the Tinubu administration.
He insisted that Nigeria is safer and better under Tinubu.
Addressing the audience made up of foreigners and Nigerians, he said: “We have quality leadership today in our country.
“Mr. President is a digital President and educated. Yes, he is very enlightened. He knows things. People under-estimate him at their own peril.”
Continuing, Ribadu said: “Things are changing. We are stabilising things. Forget about what some people are saying.
“Nigeria is getting safer and better every single day. Our economy is stabilising. Things are getting better day by day.
“We have changed things. We are in control. We work with big telecom companies closely. Nigeria is safe, forget about these people who are talking nonsense.
“Niger Delta is safer than ever before. South-East is beginning to be normal. Those who are creating problems there and are outside the country, we are going to jail them there.
“We will not allow the money they are sending to Nigeria. We are working and getting results. Many people don’t recognise these.
“These are desperate, expired people who believe that it is an entitlement for them to continue to be in the corridors of power.
“They think it is their right to be in power, to be in our spaces. They go to Channels or Arise TV, they are shouting.
“They are outdated. These are people who looted and plundered this country before, they believe in entitlement, that is for them to continue to do what they like.
“But Nigerians are wiser. They created problems–religious, ethnic, political problems. We are trying to address them, they should give us chance, please.”
The NSA therefore called on telecom companies and foreign investors to invest in the country, adding that Nigeria is the future of Africa.
Commenting on the National Cyber Security Conference, Ribadu said building a resilient digital future was a call to action by all stakeholders.
He pointed out that a resilient digital future is not given, but rather it is consciously, collectively and effectively built.
He explained that public institutions, banks, schools, markets, among others, are targets of cyber attacks, adding that resilience is the bedrock of national security and economic stability.
Ribadu assured that decisive steps have been taken to strengthen cyber security, following the operationalisation of the National Cyber Crime Centre.
In his keynote address, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said as part of measures to strengthen and combat cyber attacks in the country, all processes in the Commission are being digitalised.
Olukoyede revealed that before the end of 2025, all processes and operations such as submission of petitions, investigative processes and prosecution, among others, would be digitalised.
He announced that the Commission has recorded remarkable achievements in dealing with cyber threats to the economy in the last two years.
While revealing that some foreigners have been using Nigerian identities to perpetrate fraud, Olukoyede said 194 of the fraudsters were arrested recently in one swoop.
He added that the Commission had recently secured conviction for 146 of the arrested fraudsters.
People underrate Tinubu at their own peril – Ribadu warns opposition
