Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that he is ready to resist all who might seek to sow confusion and hatred in the country for their own selfish interest, ahead of 2019.
Osinbajo said this on Monday, in a nationwide broadcast to commemorate the nation’s Democracy Day, and the second anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
This came on the heels of various agitations across the country, as it relates to the 2019 Presidency.
The Acting President, warned against actions capable of undermining the sovereignty of Nigeria, saying the country “belongs to all of us.”
“As we all daily preoccupy ourselves with pursuing the Nigerian dream, which is the desire to better Nigerians’ lives and circumstances, vigorously and honestly, it is inevitable that grievances and frustrations will arise from time to time.
“This is normal. What is not normal, or acceptable, is employing these frustrations, as justification for indulging in discrimination or hate speech, or hateful conduct of any kind, or for seeking to undermine by violent, or other illegal means the very existence of the sovereign entity that has brought us all together as brothers and sisters and citizens.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us. No one person or group of persons is more important or more entitled than the other, in this space that we all call home. And we have a responsibility to live in peace and harmony with one another, to seek peaceful and constitutional means of expressing our wishes and desires.”
Osinbajo, who declared that the administration had done well in the last two years, said much of 2016 was spent clearing the mess inherited, as well as putting the building blocks together, “for the future of our dreams; laying a solid foundation for the kind of future that you deserve as citizens of Nigeria.”
The Acting President, promised that the Federal Government would with the support and cooperation of the citizenry, take every step needed to create ‘that country of our dreams.’
