Nigeria@65: Don’t Give Up, Demand Accountability, Labour Party Tells Nigerians

Interim National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Senator Nenadi Esther Usman, has urged Nigerians not to springiness up anticipation successful the state but instead, request accountability from leaders arsenic the state marks its 65th Independence Anniversary.

In a goodwill connection to Nigerians astatine location and successful the diaspora connected Wednesday, Senator Usman acknowledged that the federation has faced galore challenges and missed opportunities since independency successful 1960, but insisted determination was inactive overmuch to celebrate.

“Our continued beingness arsenic 1 indivisible federation – contempt galore challenges implicit the past 65 years – speaks to our corporate resoluteness and the knowing that our spot lies successful our unity and diversity,” she stated.

The erstwhile Minister of Finance described Nigeria’s existent enactment authorities arsenic a load connected the radical but warned that despair and resignation were not options.

She maintained that citizens indispensable proceed to anticipation and request accountability from leaders to execute meaningful change.

“It would beryllium a treble calamity for a radical who person endured years of misrule to present surrender anticipation for their country. We indispensable retrieve that meaningful alteration volition lone travel erstwhile we, arsenic citizens, emergence to clasp leaders accountable – an work that cannot beryllium fulfilled done resignation oregon despair,” she said.

Senator Usman further called connected those successful positions of powerfulness to govern with empathy, justice, and transparency, stressing that nary federation tin execute existent improvement without deliberately prioritising the payment of its citizens.

She concluded by reaffirming her content successful Nigeria’s resilience and capableness to flooded its contiguous challenges, noting that “there volition surely beryllium joyousness successful the morning” if leaders and citizens perpetrate themselves to rebuilding the nation.