The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has threatened to sue a politician and leader of Northern Star, Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, over an alleged malicious statement in a Tiktok video shared across social media platforms
 
In the clip, Muhammad was said to have accused the NSA of serving in President Bola Tinubu’s government, whom he supposedly castigated when he was Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). 

Muhammad was the Director of Civil Society Organisations of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections, who later opted out of the party weeks to the poll. 
 
In a letter, through his lawyer, Dr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), the NSA said publicly or privately, he has never maintained such a viewpoint. Ribadu stated that he never called the President a thief.   He said the damage that had been done as a result of the Tiktok video was unquantifiable. 
 
 The letter, dated February 4, 2025 and signed by Dr. Raji, read in part: “Clearly, in the text of your recording (reproduced and translated above), you stated that when our client served as e Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, (EFCC) he allegedly named President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, alongside Sen. George Akume and Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu (all former Governors, and in that order) as the governors in Nigeria who stole the most from public treasury. 
  
 “You also stated that today, our client, who once held the above odious view about President Tinubu, has turned around to be his staunchest defender; especially, with regard to what you stated to be the government’s agenda to silence voices of dissent to the government, citing the alleged arrest of a certain Prof. Usman Yusuf as an example. 
  
 “You also stated that our client’s alleged attitudinal change towards President Tinubu means that he has either become a liar or that he lied when he allegedly described President Tinubu, Sen. Akume, Sen. Kalu and other governors as thieves. 
 
“Privately or publicly, our client has never expressed the above viewpoint about President Tinubu and/or Senators George Akume and Orji Uzor Kalu, which you attributed to him. 
 
“In fact, our client has never held such a viewpoint about the President; hence, it came as a complete surprise to him when his attention was drawn to the aforesaid publication by you against him. 
 
“In the foregoing premise, our client hereby challenges you to provide evidence of your allegations therein against him, which have cast him as double-faced, duplicitous and deceitful in the eyes of right-thinking members of the society.”