Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said on Monday, that for the country to survive, all Nigerians must be born again.
Ganduje who made the comment in his welcome address as at the 12th Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Kano, which is organised to mark the 69th birthday of Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), seem concerned with the fragile State of the country, as agitations continue to push the country to the brink.
Ganduje admitted that the level of cohesion in Nigeria is currently at a very low point, saying that if nothing is done to change the narrative, the the divisive variables will pull the country down.
“As far as the issue of national integration is concerned, all Nigerians must be born again,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Vice, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of destroying country but now want to claim saints, as the Buhari administration continues to take the hit for a mess it didn't create.
Adesina whose statement is particularly targeted at Atiku, said the former vice President cannot claim Pontius Pilate now that the country is struggling.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Adesina said, “You will recall that in the build-up to the 2015 elections, when the APC was campaigning, the figure that was used by then candidate Buhari was that a minimum of 30 million Nigerians were unemployed, particularly youths and that his government was going to do something about it.
“That was in 2014/2015. So, don’t make it appear like a genie that just came out of the bottle. No, it had always been there. It had always been there.
“The former Vice-President was in power for eight years. Now, he is in the opposition. You can’t take whatever he says as the gospel. The question is when former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was in government with President Olusegun Obasanjo, where did they take the country?
“Where did they leave the country? I have seen clips on social media where he said some things they promised to do, particularly on power; some people collected some trillions and didn’t deliver… Former Vice-President is part of the rot this country became.
“He cannot exculpate himself; he cannot sit in judgment over anybody. He played his part for eight years and they left the country where they left it. He cannot like Pontius Pilate, begin to wash himself clean of what Nigeria has become.”