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‘Nigeria is too big to descend into chaos’-full
text of Gov. Lamido’s statement slamming OBJ
Newsdiaryonline Fri June24,2011
Many Nigerians must have
noted with apprehension recent statements from some very senior
citizens of the country. In particular, the statement that the
current leadership lacks the capacity to tackle corruption
suggests a lack of circumspection that could further threaten an
already fragile democracy and an inchoate national security of
today.
Nigerians would
certainly desire that their senior citizens exercise utmost
restraint, irrespective of personal or regional pains behind
their outbursts, particularly those of them whose creation the
key operators of the present government are. A categorical
statement such as under reference amounts to self-repudiation,
an ill wind that would do no one any good on the long run.
No matter what, there
are certain individuals in this country today who must rally
round the leadership to strengthen capacity for confidence
building and consensus among and across the various divides.
Nigeria
is too big to descend into chaos. The level of suffering will be
the ultimate embarrassment for the Black race and we must all
work to avoid such a situation. Senior citizens in particular
must desist from being the weighty voices behind the
advertisement of
Nigeria’s failures in certain
areas since the privileging of failures over and above areas of
success could have such a demoralizing effect on every thing and
everyone.
This is the context in
which it is worth appealing to our leaders to exercise utmost
restraint in what they say as what they say could have dire
consequences for all of us before we all know it.
Sule Lamido is the
Governor of Jigawa State.He issued this statement from
Government House, Dutse, June 21st,
2011
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