Tinubu Calls For Collective Action Against Nigeria’s Challenges

 Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said Nigerians can collectively solve the problems confronting the nation if they agree to work together with faith in one another.

According to him, with unity and determination, Nigeria can overcome all the challenges confronting it.

Speaking at a dinner tagged ‘meet the mentor’ organised in his honour by the Progressive Sisters Network (PSN), an APC support group, Tinubu identified the inability of Nigerians as a people to effectively harness the country’s abundant resources as the bane of the nation’s developmental challenges.

He said, “As a nation, we are facing some challenges, but we can overcome these challenges. We can find our ways in situations where it seems there is no way. Please let’s work together to build the Nigeria of our dreams together.

“I know it is difficult not to look for the easy way in today’s Nigeria, but together with our faith in one another and our nation, we can solve our problems”.

The former Lagos governor assured that when he eventually emerges the next president, he would ensure that the vast resources of the country are effectively harnessed to bring the country into its prime position in the community of nations.

“We will achieve greatness in this country, let us just believe in ourselves,” Tinubu said.

Speaking also at the dinner, speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, called for the spirit of teamwork, saying for democracy to thrive, the driving spirit must be a collective commitment to a covenant of public service that seeks the common good rather than the pursuit of narrow objectives.

He said, “The success of our democracy and the progress and prosperity of our nation, therefore, depends on each of us knowing and operating in the knowledge that Nigeria belongs to us all, and we each have a responsibility to pursue what is necessary, to do that which is hard and to make sacrifices to build a nation and leave a legacy of which our successors will be rightly proud.

“And we learned from Asiwaju that the private ambitions of any one individual must never take pre-eminence over the shared interests of the community, the party, or the country.  Some of you in this room will run for office; some already have.  You won’t always be successful.  There are those whose response to loss is to decide to burn down the house, create chaos and confusion, or sulk away into scheming and sabotage.”