2019: Nigeria Must Be Rescued Or Else… – Shehu Sanu

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By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan

The Chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Shehu Sani on Saturday declared that “the Nigerian state is in need of rescue ” to avoid bleak political future for the country.

Senator Sani said this in Ibadan while delivering a paper on the theme “Nigeria’s Political Future – Bright or Bleak? at the 5th Development Summit of the Olalekan Olomide Platform for Development” held at the Oyo NUJ Press Center.

He stressed that to achieve this, there is the need for the recruitment of  ” the most suitable team to undertake” the much needed rescue of Nigeria political future come 2019.

” I have argued severally that the Nigeria state is in need of rescue.
2019 must be about recruiting the most suitable team to undertake this rescue mission. As it is, most of the members of the ruling elite lack the  capacity, knowledge, integrity, wiipower or nationalism to midwife the birth of a new epoch of a rejuvenated Nigeria,” he said.

Senator Sani added that members of the ruling elite “are visionless, too corrupt and too clannish and nepotistic to rise up to the challenge of building an all inclusive Nigeria where merit, competence and productivity rather than tongue and tribe and religion and state of origin is the basis for assessing the worth of Nigerians”.

” The basis of our reward system and the logic which drives the allocation of values at all levels in this country is wrong, unfair, counterproductive and in dire need of an overhaul. It is skewed against hardworking, law abiding citizens while the corrupt and connected thrive “.

Senator Sani said ” I like to state categorically that as bleak as the political future of Nigeria may appear to be at the moment, I believe that that indomitable spirit of the Nigerian is quite capable of boosting our collective resolve and pulling the nation back from the precipice of political anarchy “.

” For this to happen however, there must not only be a paradigm shift but a generational shift as well in our politics “saying, ” that is to say Nigerians must vote for something higher than the short term stomach infrastructure that has until now been the basis of determining the outcome of electoral contestation in most places across the country “.

The Chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts stressed that Nigerians ” must with one accord go to the polls and issue an irrevocable quit notice to this present crop of ruling elites and their cronies, replacing them a crop of a new breed of Nigerians that are capable of bringing out the best in all of us and elevating us as a people to new and greater heights “.

Speaking further, Senator Sani noted that the bane of ” our national development is the character and orientation of our political system, saying “we need to earnestly interrogate our politics and its underlining cultures”

“While we pride ourselves on being a democracy, it does not take much imagination to see that virtually all the ethos as well as institutions of democracy have been totally ignored and/or undermined by the very same elites who rode into power on the wings of democracy and democratic change.”

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