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Those calling Nigeria a failed state are ignorant —Nasarawa gov

Nasawara State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, says those claiming Nigeria risks becoming a failed state under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), don’t mean well for the country.

The governor, who is a member of the President’s ruling All Progressives Congress, stated this on a television interview on Sunday night.

He said the ‘Nigeria is about to become a failed state’ statement was not new in democratic Nigeria as the previous government of former President Goodluck Jonathan was also criticised in the same regard.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Financial Times of London described Nigeria as a country going backwards economically and plagued with terrorism, illiteracy, poverty, banditry, and kidnapping and risks becoming a failed state if things don’t take a drastic turn.

The UK-based newspaper also said the recent abduction and subsequent rescue of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State, revived memories of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Borno State in 2014.

But in his reaction last night, Sule said the Financial Times of London and others claiming Nigeria was about to be a failed state lacked knowledge of how the Buhari regime is tackling insecurity in the country.

He said, “I do not give our administration, the APC, ‘excellent’, in the area of protecting lives and property of the people. I do not give APC ‘very good’. If you look at it very carefully, we have a lot to do in the area of security. There is no ambiguity about that. But are we improving in tackling the insecurity challenge? Yes.”

“My concern is people who think nothing is being done, people saying, ‘We are a failed state’. These are statements being made by people who probably don’t mean well for Nigeria and don’t understand what the government is doing and how the government is trying.

“If the (Kankara) children were still in the hands of those who kidnapped them, they will not even say Nigeria is almost a failed state, they will call us a failed state but now that they have been released, that is why we are getting a little bit of credit that we are about to be a failed state.

“The ‘Failed State’ statement has come up many times in the international media, not just for this administration but for the previous administration when Abuja was being burnt and when three states were under emergency. But now no state is under emergency,” Sule said.

Punch

 

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