PDP: No compromise on national unity

Alhaji Muktari Mapia, the Deputy Treasurer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party ( PDP) in Sokoto State, on Tuesday said that there was no compromise on the unity of Nigeria.Mapia spoke against the background of issues for discussion at national conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan.“Nigeria has come to stay as one, indivisible country, in spite of the current political and insecurity challenges plaguing the nation,” he added.Mapia told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto that what the country was passing through at the moment wasvery normal and not too peculiar.“The earliest the country can overcome these seemingly formidable challenges, the better for the country and her citizens,” Mapia, said.He said that the nation needed an institutionalized formal policy that would project holistic awareness, collective participation and teamwork.Mapia said that this would be the basis for sustainable peace in Nigeria in a diverse setting.“Nigeria’s bond of unity and stability needs to be strengthened through collective spirit of true friendship and brotherhood,” he said.Mapia explained that the country was blessed with abundant human and material resources which needed to befully harnessed.“For example, there are mineral resources that needed to be fully explored and exploited for the full utilization of their socio-economic benefits,” he added.According to Mapia, this will help in further moving the country forward, to boost revenues and ensureeven development.“But lack of people-oriented policies that would project and develop such materials was responsible for thenation’s set back.“The time has come for all Nigerians, irrespective of tribal, religious, ethnic and political differences, to worktogether for the common good of the country,” he added.The PDP chieftain said that Nigerians needed each other in the effort to move the country forward as the country strived to take its rightful position in Africa and the comity of nations.


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