Kabiru Marafa, a former senator representing Zamfara Central, has backed Donald Trump, president of the United States, over his recent warning of possible military action in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Politics Today<\/em>, a Channels Television programme, Marafa said he supports Trump\u2019s stance as it could compel the Nigerian government to act more decisively on insecurity.<\/p>\n \u201cI strongly support the president of America, Donald Trump, for issuing that threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Marafa acknowledged concerns raised by some Nigerians who view the remarks as an affront to national sovereignty, but argued that human lives must come first.<\/p>\n \u201cMost people look at it from the perspective of sovereignty and patriotism, which I subscribe to, but of what importance is sovereignty to a dead man?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n He added that the comments from Washington serve as necessary pressure for authorities in Abuja to prioritise the protection of citizens.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kabiru Marafa, a former senator representing Zamfara Central, has backed Donald Trump, president of the United States, over his recent warning of possible military action in Nigeria. Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, Marafa said he supports Trump\u2019s stance as it could compel the Nigerian government to act more decisively on insecurity. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Senator-Marafa-OkayNG-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}