Senate President, David Mark, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to have faith and remain steadfast in promoting peace and unity no matter the challenges.The senate president in a goodwill message to Nigerians to mark this year’s Independence Day anniversary, said the indivisibility of our nation is not negotiable because there’s no better place than Nigeria.Mark went down memory lane of the nation’s chequered political history since 1960, during which Nigeria experienced 30 months old fratricidal civil war, various ethno-religious conflicts and assured that our crisis are surmountable.The senate president in the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, dismissed as untrue, the insinuation in some quarters that Nigeria has not made progress, since independence.He said, “Let us cast our minds back a little and see the number of road networks, schools, universities, health institutions, telecommunications and a host of others.“We may not have been where we want to be but we have made appreciable progress and we can do more. All we need to do is to strengthen our unity as one people with one mission and purpose.“The stable democracy has offered us opportunity to harness our abundant resources for good. Nigeria has passed through many challenges in the past and we came out of it.“The security challenges; this Boko Haram can be defeated if we unite to fight them. I believe the Boko Haram, terrorism or insurgency is alien to us as a people. We have the capacity to defeat them and confine them to the dustbin of history”.He promised that genuine complaints and agitations among Nigerians arising from the structure of our polity can be addressed by government but noted that the perceived imbalances cannot be corrected by taking up arms against each other.Mark said, “We must therefore continue to shun individuals or groups that encourage, preach and practice division among our people. #Door2DoorForMark
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:20:31 +0000
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