Nothing is collapsing – Presidency assures Nigerians
The presidency has assured Nigeria that the country is strong and moving on despite a claim by a former minister of education, Obiageli Ezekwesili and others that Nigeria is heading towards a collapse.
Channels Television reports that Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, if the country was collapsing, it is only collapsing someone dream.
Noting that Nigeria is waxing string, the presidential media aide said the progress Nigeria is making can be seen in the fact that an election was conducted democratically and a winner declared after the process.
Buhari He said: “If the country is collapsing, it is collapsing somebody’s dream.”
“Nothing Is Collapsing. The country is strong, moving on,” Shehu said, adding that those who lost elections were behind much of the criticism against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He added that the security and unemployment challenges faced by Nigeria as a country is not new.
“Having lost the elections, they are devising new ways so that they can grab power. So, let’s see how they can contest and get power,” he said.
It would be recalled that the past national chairman of All Progressives Congress, John Oyegun, had decried the dwindling growth on Nigeria’s development process.
Oyegun said it is difficult to explain the downward trend of Nigeria’s growth especially with the fact that the country has all the resources it needed and good planning.
Speaking at his 80th birthday celebration he warned that tribalism may kill Nigeria.
He also noted that it is now the immediate, urgent challenge of the President Muhammadu Buhari government in its second term to frontally address the issues of insecurity eating deep the country.
He said that looking at where he was coming from and the level of unity that the country enjoyed in the past that quite a lot of things were not going right at the moment.
“I am worried. I have to accept your point there that quite a lot of things are not going right,” he told reporters on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
“And I think being an elder statesman; I will leave it at that for now. But the principles are clear.
“The genesis is clear of what gave rise to where we are now. As I have always said, if we don’t kill tribalism, it will kill this country
“To my mind, it is now the immediate, urgent challenge of the government in its second term to frontally address these issues and these challenges and these problems because there is no question at all.
“They are not healthy for the nation and yes, they are worrisome. I find them worrisome too. But it is my hope and prayers that they will be effectively addressed.” He warned.
