{"id":79526,"date":"2025-12-02T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79526"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:50:17","slug":"badaru-resigns-as-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/02\/badaru-resigns-as-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Badaru Resigns as Defence Minister&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has resigned from office with immediate effect, citing health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru communicated his resignation in a December 1 letter to President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga confirmed on Monday that Tinubu accepted the resignation and thanked him for his service, adding that the president will forward a nominee to the Senate this week.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru, 63, served as Jigawa State governor from 2015 to 2023 before his appointment as minister on August 21, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>His exit comes as President Tinubu declares a national security emergency, with further details expected soon.<\/p>\n<p>The development also follows a meeting earlier on Monday between the president and former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa (rtd.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has resigned from office with immediate effect, citing health reasons. Badaru communicated his resignation in a December 1 letter to President Bola Tinubu. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga confirmed on Monday that Tinubu accepted the resignation and thanked him for his service, adding that the president will forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,182,1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79528,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79526\/revisions\/79528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}