{"id":88069,"date":"2021-11-05T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88069"},"modified":"2021-11-05T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:40:42","slug":"insecurity-bad-governance-nepotism-bane-of-nigerias-unity-atiku-udom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/insecurity-bad-governance-nepotism-bane-of-nigerias-unity-atiku-udom\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity, bad governance, nepotism bane of Nigeria\u2019s unity \u2014Atiku, Udom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m17691\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State have identified insecurity, bad governance, poverty and nepotism as factors affecting unity in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cNigerians are trapped in the net of poverty, insecurity, backwardness and bad governance.\u00a0 The only way for Nigerians to get out of the trap, is to unite, flap their wings together and fly away from the danger zone,\u201d Atiku,the 2019 Presidential Candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP,\u00a0 said.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, who was the guest of honour at the National Lecture organized by the Arewa Media and Development Forum, spoke at the Arewa House Kaduna, yesterday, said:\u00a0 \u201cAll Nigerians are equal and are supposed to be treated equally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI don\u2019t see any Nigerian as Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba. When I see you, I see you as a Nigerian and I expect the best from you, that is why I didn\u2019t select where I should marry from. I married women from the diverse background because I don\u2019t look at their backgrounds.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201dI only see them as wonderful Nigeria women. My children have brothers and sisters from different background and that is why I am confident that a strongly united Nigeria is possible because I made it happen in my family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Nigerians are equal and suppose to be treated equally, therefore, unity is not about homogeneity but it is by accepting the diversity in differences between us, not using this differences as a yardstick in judging others.\u00a0 This kind of unity cannot be achieved by accident,\u00a0 there must be strategic efforts to promote unity.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cResearch has pointed out the three primary sources of lack of unity in Nigeria.\u00a0 For religious differences, we have to accept that it is not possible for the whole world to embrace one faith and it is not our choice the faith we practice, the only thing we can do is to accept that others have different faith and that is how God designed the world to be, and it should not be the basis for our socialization and politics<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanguage is another primary source of disunity, that is why I recommend a national law to mandate every Nigerian to speak one more language from another region of the country, so we can connect and appreciate things we share in common.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201dI remember this was introduced during one of the military regimes but along the line, that was lost in implementation. People easily associate and like others who speak their language. Language is one of the strongest sources for unity, we should have policy to mandate public servants, youth corps members to learn one more Nigerian language from the region other\u00a0 than the one they hail from.\u00a0 That way, we can strengthen our unity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only through unity we can surmount and overcome our challenges. We all face a common enemy, we need to fight this common enemy because this enemy will not spare anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dOur common enemies do not recognize who is from the south of north, Muslim or a Christian, if we stand divided, we will be trapped by the enemy. We can only escape if we work together and its just like a story of Pigeon in the ancient world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnity is your strength, as long as you stay united, no harm can come your way. \u2019\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State have identified insecurity, bad governance, poverty and nepotism as factors affecting unity in Nigeria.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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