Mr Dumebi Kachikwu, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Action Democratic Congress (ADC) has urged Nigerian leaders to strive to sustain peace and harmony in the country.
Kachikwu said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja to commemorate Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary.
He said that there was need for leaders across board to rise and rebuild stronger and deeper foundations to sustain the peace and harmony of multiple tribes in the various geographical zones.
“Elections are over but our lives are not over, let us retool and repurpose, let us come together and redesign the pathway to our future.
“A future steeped in excellence and meritocracy, a future of good governance and rule of law, a future of shared dreams hopes and aspirations.
“A future of a Nigeria that works for everyone irrespective of tribe, tongue, religion or political party affiliation.
“If our fathers failed in this, we mustn’t also fail and with a renewed sense of hope and optimism we must all strive towards individual rebirth that leads to national rebirth.
“We will yet fly again, we will yet take our place of pride in the committee of nations, we will yet feed our poor and needy, we will grow our economy and build world class infrastructure,” he said.
He called for the revision of the educational curriculum to ensure children got quality education to take up leadership in the future.
Kachikwu also called for intensified security g of the nation’s borders, provision of good paying jobs for Nigerians who are skilled, qualified and competent for employment.
He said that the government of the day must rise to its task as gloom pervades and Nigerians bemoan their lack of independence from endemic poverty, corruption, ack of basic amenities and the insecurity.
“Most Nigerians were born into this state of affairs and have lived it all their lives, this is the Nigeria our fathers gave us, but I am not sure this is the Nigeria their parents gave them.
“Those who birthed Nigeria in 1960 were dreamers who believed Nigeria could be so much better under the leadership of the natives of the land.
“They dreamt of a Nigerian that could rival her colonial masters on the world stage, they dreamt of a Nigeria whose citizens were united, educated and prosperous.
“They believed that in the year 2023 our nation would lead the world in all fields of human endeavor but looking at the situation in our country today as we begin another year in our nationhood.
“It is pertinent to ask the question “who do us?,” he said.
Kachikwu urged the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to put to end the decades of bad leadership coupled with a docile followership.
He urged the APC government to ensure that the destructive differences in tribe, tongue and religion was eradicated completely and the country is turned towards a progressive highway.
He also urged Nigerians to keep their hopes alive for a renewed country full of endless privileges and opportunities.
“Our potential is limitless and when aggregated together can redefine our nation.
“The combined potential of over two hundred million Nigerians can change the world.
:As we have conquered in music, arts and sports, so must we conquer in engineering and applied sciences, agriculture, robotics and all spheres of human endeavor.
“This is the era of exodus or jakpa, but the exodus must be only in the direction of the promised land, our God given nation called Nigeria,” he said.
