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The President and Chairman in Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Mallam Mukhtar Zubairu Sirajo,says the arrests of agitators in Nigeria as merely ‘scratching the nation’s problems on the surface’.
He advised the government to investigate reasons behind agitations by the various ethnic groups in the country.
He spoke at the Dinner/Award Night as part of the activities to mark the 2021 Annual General Meeting/7th Chief O.W. Udoh’s Memorial Lecture in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Capital at the weekend,
Sirajo further challenged the government of Nigeria to be more serious about addressing the nation’s woes.
The NIPR President,who identified poor leadership as one of the factors affecting nation’s progress, lamented that some who have had the opportunity to lead Nigeria had no business in governance.
He added: “At the core of the problem of this country is poor leadership. if you fragment Nigeria into as many countries as you would wish to; whatever component that is not led in an appropriate manner is still going to suffer the same fate that we are suffering today.This country is well endowed in Africa. There is nothing that would form the basis for development that you cannot find in this country. The best ingredients for development are the people. But, we have not been fortunate with the kind of leadership that have been steering the ship of this country.
“A very significant percentage of the people that call themselves leaders have no business anywhere near leadership. If they were leaders in the true sense of the word, we would not have been in the quagmire that we are into today. The leaders have always led for their own class and that class is just a vein representive of what Nigeria is.If you take a look at our leaders when they come together to pursue their common interest, Niger Delta does not feature, North West does not feature, nothing else feature apart from that interest that they commonly unite to pursue. The only time your hear them complain is when one of them is surcharge. That is when they all retire to ethnic groups”.
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