Well meaning Nigerians must join hands with the Buhari administration to fight evil and evildoers, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said at the weekend.
Mr. Osinbajo was speaking at the Fadan Kagoma, Kaduna State, during the 2016 Khituk Gwong Day where he was the Special Guest of Honour.
He restated his earlier call that a ‘New Tribe of Nigerians’ drawn from all faiths, ‘current tribes’ and ethnicities is needed to “separate light from darkness.”
He said in too many instances, leaders drawn from different areas of the nation’s life, have tried to use religion and ethnicity to cause division in a bid to attain political and other selfish ends.
“Sometimes political leaders use religion to divide, they use ethnicity to oppress the people,” the VP said, adding that a new Nigeria is now emerging.
That new Nigeria, he argued, will include Christians, Muslims, people of all faiths and those who confess no faith.
He said those Nigerians ‘of the New Tribe’ are those who believe in truth, honesty and justice among other virtues that advance the right course for the country.
“This new Nigeria must be based on love for each other,” and must value integrity, Mr. Osinbajo said, stressing that it is indeed mandated in his own personal faith of Christianity to love everyone including “your enemy”.
He explained that Christians have to love those who hate them and pray for their enemies.
According to him, those who have been stealing from and looting the nation’s coffers are drawn from all ethnic groups and faiths, but are united in their quest to steal.
“When they are stealing the nation’s money, they are completely united,” the Vice President noted.
Praising both the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and the Kpop Gwong, His Royal Highness Paul Zakka Wyom, the main hosts of the Khituk Gwong Day celebrations, as good examples of the new Nigeria, the Vice President said it is important that those who are doing good for the nation should also band together.
“Those who are determined to do good, we must encourage them and we must not allow any kind of division to blur our determination,” says the VP, who also commended Mallam El-Rufai for completing road projects started by the former Kaduna State Governor, the late Patrick Yakowa, which had been abandoned by the subsequent state government.