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Don’t distract President Tinubu over invasion of Nigeria, Hon. Bankole tells Trump
A pioneer Kwara State House of Assembly Commission member, KWHA, and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Kehinde Alex Bankole
(KAB), has said President Bola Tinubu should not be distracted from his focus on effective and efficient governance of the country, especially with the threat of an invasion of the country by President Donald Trump of United States.
Indeed, Trump had said on Saturday that he had ordered the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria as he continues to accuse the nation of not doing enough to stem violence against Christians — an accusation Nigeria has repeatedly denied.
In a social media post criticizing what he called the “mass slaughter” of Christians in the country, Trump wrote that the United States would “immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria” and warned the government there to “move fast.”
But Hon. Bankole, who hails from Oke Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State, said Nigeria remains a sovereign country and the United Nations Charter has addressed the issue of national sovereignty primarily in Article 2.
According to him, this article outlines the fundamental principles governing the relations among Member States and the actions of the UN itself.
He said several clauses in Article 2 are key to understanding the UN’s stance on a country’s sovereignty, including:
• Article 2(1): Sovereign Equality This principle establishes that all UN Member States are legally equal, possessing equal rights and duties within the international community. It means each state has the right to determine its own political, social, economic, and cultural path without external interference.
• Article 2(4): Prohibition on the Use of Force This clause forbids Member States from using force or the threat of force against the “territorial integrity or political independence” of any state, safeguarding a nation’s physical and political sovereignty.
• Article 2(7): Principle of Non-Intervention This part of the Charter states that the UN should not intervene in matters considered to be within a state’s “domestic jurisdiction”, reinforcing the idea of a state’s internal autonomy.
However, Hon. Bankole said Article 2(7) includes an exception: the non-intervention principle “shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII”.
He explained that Chapter VII allows the UN Security Council to take action, including the use of force, in situations deemed a “threat to the peace, a breach of the peace, or an act of aggression,” meaning that the Security Council’s authority to maintain international peace can supersede a state’s domestic jurisdiction claim.
“These provisions collectively balance a state’s sovereign rights with its responsibilities as a UN member,” he said, adding that this a defining time in Nigeria’s history.
He encouraged Nigerians and all people with good intentions and love for this country to take part in a move to jointly save Nigeria.
“We must support our country. We all can’t be cowed into taking refuge under our comfort zones, thinking we are good,” he said.
He said it shameful that “our sovereignty is now being threatened. A country hosting the largest population of black people in the entire globe is now being ridiculed by one crazy individual in the U.S. It’s unfortunate that this can happen because our leaders over the years have refused to build functional institutions, but have been building mansions both at home and in foreign land for selfish purposes. We have refused to develop meaningful. The level of infrastructure in the country is parlous. There is huge deficit of infrastructure; poor power, bad roads, and our forests are taken over by bandits. Our farmers can’t farm. This is shameful.”
According to him, “President Tinubu has done beautifully well in the last two years in office, and he can not be blamed.”
Hon. Bankole, the founder and owner of KAB CONSTRUCTIONS, KAB ENERGY, and KAB SECURITY, who is on a business trip to some european countries, condemned President Trump over what he described as “outburst.”
He absolved President Tinubu of any wrongdoing, saying he has been proactive in matters of insecurity since he assumed office, and only recently changed the nation’s Service Chiefs to reinvigorate the security architecture of the country.
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