Opppositon will reconstruct the country –Tinubu
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday stated in Kano that opposition leaders in the country are leaving no stone unturned in their desire to ensure the reconstruction of the Nigeria nation for a better future that Nigerians will be proud of.
According to him, this will be done through the creation of the needed chances that will ensure a bright and better future devoid of poverty, unemployment and insecurity.
Tinubu, who was among the beneficiaries of a honorary doctoral degrees conferred on four eminent Nigerians by Kano State University of Science and Technology, Wudil, (KUST), said that Nigeria can boast of leaders with integrity and leadership qualities capable of turning the nation around.
“To achieve this, all we need to do is to chase away the demons whose activities have remained our bane. “History teaches that those who stay resolute shall win in the end; we are resolute for there is no shame in wanting democracy, no shame in wanting prosperity, fighting against poverty, ignorance and diseases, just as there is also no shame in believing in justice, striving for a better life and demanding good governance.
“I see a heavy cloud hovering overhead and there seems to be no woe by which we are not besieged: poverty, unemployment, diseases, religious and ethnic divides and terror; sadly, our house is weak because of poor infrastructure. All that is needed to address the country’s problem is to possess the willpower to face the challenges.
“To lift this nation from its low state, you must equip the people with the knowledge needed to face the challenges on ground. Education is a practical, dynamic thing that must be adapted to our needs and reflect our circumstance; it must give us the skills needed to become architects of the destinies we seek and not idle bystanders in our lives.”
Tinubu also recalled the inherent danger in the country’s rising unemployment rate, and described as a costly waste, educating children with knowledge irrelevant to the society as it makes little sense: “to give our people skills for jobs that do not exist, while the work at hand goes undone because of lack able labour.
“We shall create the change that will render extinct, Boko Haram and other violent movements across the land. In the face of increasing progress and prosperity, such groups shall remain where they belong; small, fringe and inconsequential. By wedding innovative technology and good governance, we guide the nation to her better future.
“There will be no need to even contemplate a state of emergency in Nigeria; there will only be a nation and 36 states of emergence towards development, prosperity and hope,” he noted.
Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso who is the founder and visitor of the University, in his speech on the occasion, he recalled the commencement of academics in the university in 2001 with 548 students, pointing out that today, “12 years later, the University is graduating 696 students for the 2011/2012 session with a total enrolment of almost 10, 000 students and 23 academic programmes.”
According to him, the University’s projection is that a decade from now, the it will have a student population of 25, 000.
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