President Bola Tinubu on Monday held a closed-door meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, and a French General at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Sources close to the President, described Monday’s engagement as part of intensified collaboration on Nigeria’s security situation.
In addition to his earlier engagement, the President also held an emergency security meeting with the service chiefs and intelligence heads.
Those in attendance at the meeting include the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Staff, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, and the Inspector-General of Police.
This meeting occurred after a colonel and six soldiers were killed on Sunday by an Improvised Explosive Device planted by insurgents in Borno State, marking another deadly strike against military personnel in the North-East theatre of operations.
The meeting with the French officer, which began at around 2 pm, was the President’s first official engagement since his return from Bayelsa on Friday.
It comes three weeks after the President announced that France had agreed to supply military equipment and training to Nigerian forces battling insurgency in the North-East.
A source confirmed that “The President met the Chief of Defence Staff and a French General. That is the meeting that happened this afternoon.
“He has always said that he will seek collaboration and support from everywhere he can get help. And he is doing that.
“He is on top of the security issues. That is why he met with the French General and our CDS today.”
