President Goodluck Jonathan has tasked
the incoming Muhammadu Buhari led government to appreciate the good
contributions of every Nigerian towards nation-building irrespective of
political party or creed.
The president spoke shortly after being
decorated with the ‘Peace-Loving Global Citizen’ award by the Universal
Peace Forum (UPF) led by prominent lawyer, Mike Ozehkome, at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.
He was speaking in reference to the
National Conference report which he had planned to implement before
losing the election to Buhari.
He expressed his hope that the incoming
administration would take time to appreciate such contributions of
Nigerians from every part of the country in the efforts to build a
greater nation.
The president enjoined Nigerians
generally to strengthen the weak cleavages that abound in the country
and not to exploit them for negative uses, adding that everyone must be
ready to make sacrifices.
“We have our challenges, of course, we
had a national conference. The idea of the conference is to look at
these weak cleavages we have in this country.
“And we just finished that conference
and we are thinking about how to implement it so that Nigeria will
become a more stronger and united nation. I cannot be a party to
disintegration of the country.
“But I’m quite pleased with what has
happened; we have a country; the country will be more united. I believe
and do pray that the incoming government should appreciate the
contributions of everybody and see how we run Nigeria as a country that
belongs to everybody, for all citizens; irrespective of political
persuasion or creed; so that is what I stand for”, he said.
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