50 YEARS AFTER CIVIL WAR: NIGERIA BETTER AS ONE NATION – OSINBAJO
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that in spite of the challenges and differences, Nigeria is better together as one nation.
Speaking during a town hall meeting on the 50th Anniversary of the Nigerian Civil War at the National War Museum, Umuahia, Abia State, organized by the Ken Nnamani Center for Leadership and Development, Osinbajo said the lessons of the war should assuage feelings of wrong and make the country better.
He, however, lamented that the country did not take advantage of the engineering and creative feats of the Biafrans who manufactured weapons, refined crude through local technology, among others.
The Vice President described the war as a defining national tragedy, saying that the essence of the remembrance was to recall the bitter lessons of the war and resolve that it would not happen again.
He insisted that the cost of resolving differences through war was far more than resolving them peacefully. Osinbajo further urged Nigerians to not see the setbacks as reason for hopelessness, stressing that the mission of the Buhari administration was to build a great nation where the teeming youths would express their creative energy.
“The most crucial task is to ensure that issues of fairness, justice and equity are entrenched in the polity and ensure that the younger generation does not see Nigeria with the lenses of the war era, Osinbajo added
He noted that the South East zone of the country was the center of entrepreneurship and creativity as well as the hub of industrialization.
