From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
As Nigeria celebrates its 63 independent anniversary, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA) party, Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje said the time has come for Nigeria to focus more on creating a local content framework that will see Nigerians producing what it consumes and depend less on importation.
He added, “As blessed as Nigeria is, we shouldn’t have any business grappling with saving our currency from freefall as a result of unguided thirst for foreign tastes. This insatiable desire for foreign tastes in everything is responsible for the cancerous fall of the value of our Naira. We have the capacity and capability to feed and stabilize the African sub-region should we develop our export potential by boosting our capacity.”
In a statement to congratulate Nigerians in the celebration of the country’s 63rd independence anniversary, he said any area that needs to be focused on, there is a vibrant, youthful population that surpasses the endowment of any other nation in the African continent, adding that the youthful asset is so under-cultified thereby making them grossly idle and responsible for the vices found in a great percentage of that population.
He advised President Bola Tinubu to look into some of the areas with the mind of mitigating the possible pandemic that some of the neglected aspects of the country’s livelihood as a democratic nation could birth to its detriment, saying that Nigeria has unlimited potential with human and natural resources that surpasses its contemporaries in the committee of nations.
While celebrating with Nigerians on the 63 Independent anniversary, he noted that Nigeria as diverse and multireligious as it is remains homogeneous, despite all the challenges it lives with both in the past and now, stressing that in recent times coming out of in he called “a rancorous” general election that widened the cultural and religious fault lines.
He stated that the history of Nigeria is certainly going to become a case study around the globe shortly in terms of tolerance, and ability to swiftly adapt to changes, with resistance and devoid of violence.
He expressed delight that the level of tolerance, adaptability, and long-suffering, being exhibited by Nigerians is award-winning any day, saying that despite all the unity-threatening rancorous situations that stare Nigerians in the face daily, they are still the happiest living folks around.
The National chairman noted that there is a need for Nigerians to be more circumspect in the process of the electoral system and look forward to the time when elections in Nigeria will attract less litigation in the aftermath.
“I am not saying it’s a bad idea to have elections challenged when there are dissensions, no. What I am dreaming of here is a situation where we grow and mature as a nation to be able to say, “Alright, all things cannot be perfect all the time anyway, I accept defeat to better prepare next time”. This will save the nation a lot of resources, and most especially precious judicial time wasted on election petitions that put all existing civil and other matters on hold with long adjournment to create time for election litigations,” he prayed.
