By AbdulRaheem Aodu
Governor of Kaduna state, Dr Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, has called for collective efforts in ending the insurgency and insecurity facing the country to enable Nigerians enjoy better days ahead rather than finding who to blame for the insecurity.
Speaking in his Democracy Day message yesterday, Yero cautioned politicians to desist from promoting culture of political indiscipline and use of abusive words ahead of the 2015 general elections, saying that “do or die politics will take Nigeria nowhere.”
According to the statement by his Director- General, Media and Publicity, Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, Yero felicitated with the people of Kaduna state and Nigeria on the 2014 Democracy Day.
He described the past 15 years of democratic stability in the country as “a testimony that our great country is on the march to entrenching enduring democratic culture as the only means of exercising power by popularly elected representatives of the people.”
He said: “We have never had such a long period of uninterrupted democratic governance in our history as a nation and this calls for celebrations while we continue to trudge on in facing our current challenges. We must not despair as a people because better days are certainly ahead of us.”
Yero said the country’s major challenge as a developing nation is, “facing insecurity and it is the responsibility of all of us to join hands in defeating those bent on truncating our progress as a people. This is not time for blame game as disunity will only serve the interest of our common adversaries. Let’s continue to give support to our leaders and the security forces in this fight because united we shall win.”
He congratulated Kaduna state indigenes and all Nigerians on the occasion of the Democracy Day 2014, and called on them to continue to live in peace with one another irrespective of diversities, while praying for peaceful celebrations.
