The Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, and the founding father of the Kukah Centre, Bishop Mathew Kukah, have known as on Nigerians to work in the direction of constructing a united nation.
The duo made the decision on the Nationwide Integration Convention with the theme: “Revisiting the Nationwide Query: Nigeria’s Elusive Seek for Nationwide Integration,” organised by the Kukah Centre.
Tajudeen, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, mentioned Nigeria’s pluralism and its huge variety in ethnicity, language, and faith stay a beneficial asset to the nation.
In accordance with him, embracing and leveraging its pluralism would propel Nigeria in the direction of a extra unified and affluent future the place the collective strengths of its various inhabitants could be absolutely harnessed.
“Our variety must be our strategic benefit, making us extra resilient, progressive, and cohesive as a nation.
“Our ongoing constitutional modification course of additionally goals to strengthen these mechanisms, selling a extra inclusive, honest, and simply society,” he mentioned.
Kukah, whereas stressing the pressing want for nation constructing, urged all Nigerians to cease the blame sport and unite for the nice of the nation.
“Constructing our nation isn’t about apportioning blame. It’s concerning the urgency of nationwide integration.
“Nationwide integration doesn’t essentially imply everyone should be the identical. It’s for us in Nigeria to know the intricacies of managing variety,” the Sokoto Diocese Catholic Bishop added.
Kukah mentioned anyone who calls himself or herself a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ought to imagine within the Structure and construct Nigeria.
