Osinbajo: Well Meaning People Must Team up with Buhari to Defeat Evil

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has appealed to Nigerians who believe in pursuing the good of the nation to join hands with the Muhammadu Buhari administration in order to fight against evil and those who perpetrate it in the country.

A statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande said Osinbajo, said this over the weekend in Fadan Kagoma, Kaduna State during the 2016 Khituk Gwong Day where he was the Special Guest of Honour.

Restating his clarion call for a new tribe of Nigerians drawn from all faiths, tribes and ethnic groups to pull together, Osinbajo said there was need to “separate light from darkness.”
He said in too many instances, leaders drawn from different areas of the nation’s had tried to use religion and ethnicity to cause division in a bid to attain political and other selfish ends.
“Sometimes political leaders use religion to divide, they use ethnicity to oppress the people,” he said adding that a new Nigeria was emerging that would include Christians, Moslems, people of all faiths and those who confessed no faith.
He said those Nigerians of the new tribe were those who believed in truth, honesty and justice among other virtues that advanced the right course for the country.
“This new Nigeria must be based on love for each other, and must value integrity,” Osinbajo declared.
This he said, was mandated in his own personal faith of Christianity to love everyone including “your enemy. “
He explained that Christians have to love those who hate them and despitefully use them, and even have to pray for their enemies.
According to him, those who have been looting the nation’s coffers are drawn from all ethnicity and faiths, but are united in their quest to steal.
“When they are stealing the nation’s money they are completely united,” the vice president noted.

Praising both the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and the Kpop Gwong, His Royal Highness Paul Zakka Wyom, the main hosts of the Khituk Gwong Day celebrations, as good examples of the new Nigeria, Osinbajo said it was important that those who were doing good for the nation should also band together.

“Those who are determined to do good, we must encourage them and we must not allow any kind of division to blur our determination,” said Osinbajo who also commended El-Rufai for completing road projects started by the former Kaduna State Governor, the late Patrick Yakowa, which had been abandoned by the subsequent state government.
Earlier, the Kaduna State Governor observed that the vice-president is indeed “a true friend of Kaduna State in word and in deed,” adding that he had visited Kaduna State thrice since after the 2015 election.
El-Rufai noted that the security situation in southern Kaduna had since improved, and promised that the state government would remain committed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) manifesto as already begun.
The Kpop Gwong in his speech said “this year’s Khituk Gwong is more of thanksgiving and appreciation to God for the many things He has done for us, “ adding that the people appreciate having elected political leaders with foresight and vision who have wiped “our tears in this chiefdom through the Change mantra that is affecting us positively.”