Some eminent Nigerians have called on President Bola Tinubu to prioritise inclusive governance to tackle the challenges facing the country.
Tinubu succeeded Muhammadu Buhari whose eight years of administration were characterised by allegations of nepotism in the distribution of democratic dividends by political commentators and civil society organisations.
Speaking with Sunday PUNCH in Abuja on Friday, an elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, said, “The country is united. Anyone who says this country is not united is not aware of what is happening. There is no part of the country fighting another part.
“We are one country. The government can talk about peaceful co-existence because it wants Nigerians to live in peace and harmony.”
Also speaking, the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, advised the Tinubu-led government to continue to promote inclusiveness in the areas of appointment and spread of infrastructural projects and promote unity in the country.
“The government has to keep working on the issue of inclusiveness to ensure that every part of the country is truly represented in appointments.
“If past administrations made mistakes in this regard, the current government should do everything possible to correct them. All parts of the country should be represented and carried along in appointments and infrastructural development,” he said.
On his part, former Secretary General of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Mr Anthony Sani, noted that the challenge of disunity facing the country has been made worse by the upsurge of insecurity in the past few years.
Sani said, “The challenges facing the country have to do with insecurity inspired by poor governance, characterised by injustice in the distribution of access to national resources by way of appointments, projects and contracts.
“As a result, there are no more national ideals, moral values and nonsense of what is good and evil, leading to lack of sacred inviolability of the individual.”