"Nigeria will be better off in a united nation" - Kanu Agabi

Former Federation Attorney General Chief Kanu Agabi said it was better for Nigeria to be united.

He noted that all the problems that afflict could be overcome if people are united.

Agabi, who said this on Tuesday in Uyo, at the 2022 National Conference on the Forum of Former Deputy Governors of Nigeria on the theme “Nation Building in Difficult Times”, noted that the Nigeria also urgently needed radical change and urged people to be agents of that change.

The former minister, who was the president on occasion, admitted that the problems in Nigeria are inexhaustible, although he urged people not to be deterred but to work together to solve these problems as they progress. and as they arise.

According to him, "It is a good thing that we continue to make these efforts to help the nation overcome the distresses and disasters that are hitting us now. We must unite, and I am happy that here in this room, you have people from the North, East, West, South, united by the fact that you are former Deputy Governors,

“There will never be a time in this country where we will never have problems, we will always have problems, there will never be a time when there will not be injustice, there

"We are one people, and we are better united and my hope for this nation is that a day will come when this nation will bring the nations of Africa together, so we are talking about the United States of Africa. Divided, we cannot stay, united we are,” he said

“We are a good people, we are a capable nation, we are a nation of geniuses. We are very patient, very resilient, very intelligent, very hardworking. Of course, we have a problem with leadership. very difficult to lead a nation like this, but we can even overcome this and we continue with hope. We must not resort to methods of desperation.”

Also speaking, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel m, who was the special guest of honor, said that with the election of a competent leader as President in 2023, Nigeria's problems would be solved.

The governor said Nigeria does not need a leader who glorifies himself or who has sworn to be president by any means before he dies.

His words: “The problems facing Nigeria are quite surmountable. A leader would always have to emerge somehow, somewhere, and things could change, and I believe in Nigeria.

"We know this thing could change if in 2023 we elect a leader who has love for people, who knows what to do, an action to take and what to actually achieve, that's all we have need , and this situation can be corrected.

“It would be a story of woe if in 2023 we didn't even know that we are going through a difficult time as a country. We are looking for a leader, not someone who glorifies himself, not someone who has sworn that when I come to earth I will have to be president before I die,” he said.

In a keynote address, Professor Audu Gambo of Karl Kumm University, Joszm, said that politics should seek to promote the common good and not aim to pursue sectoral interests or goods diametrically opposed to the collective goods of the people. Nigerians.

He said there should be adequate funding for education, health infrastructure and physical infrastructure to drive the national development process.