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General News of Saturday, 10 April 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

'Nigeria can never be a failed state' - Senate President, Lawan

Ahmed Lawan Ahmed Lawan

Senate President Ahmed Lawan has stated that Nigeria can never turn to a failed state despite the utterances and predictions of "dooms-day-prophets”

Lawan, who made the declaration Saturday, April 10, while flagging off the 2021 empowerment project to 2,000 beneficiaries of Katsina Central organised by Sen Kabir Barkiya, said the current administration needs the support and prayers of Nigerians.

He said: “Those who were saying that in the present circumstance caused by insecurity, that Nigeria could turn a failed state, approaching a fail state or may likely end up a fail state, are missing the point because Nigeria can never be a fail state.

“Again they forget that when a state of emergency was declared in some part of the northeast during Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria did not turn a fail state talk more of the present.

"It is necessary that all stakeholders should join hands in the fight with the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari to overcome the present challenges facing the nation.”

Governor Aminu Masari called for collective efforts irrespective of party affiliations to build the state and country to a greater height.

Barkiya noted that, ever since he got elected, he has not slept a day without thinking about proffering solutions to the numerous problems and challenges of his constituents in the Katsina Central Senatorial district.

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