Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has announced his resignation, with immediate, from the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
The Defence Minister announced his resignation in a letter dated December 1, 2025 and sent to the president, citing health reasons.
Confirming the development, Special Adviser to the President (Information and Strategy), Bayo Onanuga, stated in a statement, on Monday, that the president has accepted the resignation of Badaru and thanked the former minister for his services to the nation.
“President Tinubu will likely inform the Senate of Badaru’s successor later this week,” the statement reads.
Badaru, 63, was a two-term governor of Jigawa State from 2015 to 2023. He was appointed as the Minister of Defence on 21 August, 2023, by President Tinubu.
His resignation comes amid the declaration of a national security emergency by the president, with plans to elaborate on its scope in due course.
The development was also on the heels of a meeting between President Tinubu and Christopher Musa, the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), at the State House, earlier on Monday evening.
It was gathered that the meeting was a precursor to a major shake-up by the president in the wake of growing insecurity across some parts of the country.
