The Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has said leadership, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and marginalization among other challenges have been stalling Nigeria’s development.
ACF Chairman, Gabriel Aduku, in an issued statement to commemorate the World Peace Day Celebration, noted that without peace, Nigeria cannot achieve any meaningful development.
According to him, “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely, failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character.
“There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which is the hallmark of true leadership.”
He said, among others: “As a member of the United Nations, Nigeria is a signatory to the UN Convention on World Peace. Sadly, peace appears to be elusive in the country.
“A number of factors revolving around political, socio-economic and leadership crises have literally conspired to hold the nation down and the consequences are enormous, indeed. These factors include the leadership question, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and marginalisation, to mention but a few.
“Nigeria is a land literally flowing with the proverbial milk and honey. Nigeria is the envy of many nations because of her enormous human and material resources. Sadly however, despite Nigeria’s humongous endowments, the country is unarguably one of the least developed in the world”.
