The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ibrahim Gambari says Nigeria will soon overcome it challenges despite the difficult moments the country is passing through.
He called for support for President Buhari’s administration saying it will help better position the country to address all its challenges.
Prof.Gambari called for the support during the public presentation of an autobiography by the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund’s (TETFund) Research and Development Standing Committee, Prof. Emeritus Njidda Mamadu Gadzama.
According to Gambari, “we are going through difficult times in our country, economic, security but let us recognise that the whole world is going through the same fate, Nigeria is part of the world. But the leadership under which we operate shows we shall indeed overcome all these”
“If we keep united, keep building, we cannot be ignored by any other country in the world. I am convinced that under the leadership of President Buhari there is going to be a better future. He belongs to all Nigerians,” he said.
Presenting the book, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, described Gadzama as a great academic who has impacted massively in the nation’s higher education sector.
Bogoro said Gadzama, who was the former Vice Chancellor of University of Maiduguri and University of Port Harcourt as well as a member of Nigerian Academy of Science, deserves commendations for his courage, truth and service to Nigeria.
“It takes the truth and courage for things to be said the way they are, but the man Professor Emeritus Gadzama that will know does so with diplomacy even when he said the truth with courage,” Bogoro said.
The TETFund boss said the Gadzama led Research and Development Standing Committee has recommended the establishment of the National R&D Foundation to secure the knowledge economy of Nigeria.
In a remark, Gadzama noted that his experience at the 13 Working Groups of TETFund R&D Standing Committee has deepened his faith in Nigeria.
“Beautiful! Nigeria is a beautiful country that nothing should divide us on ethnic lines. The intelligent people of Nigeria have great potential to together develop this country,” the Borno State-born Gadzama, said.
Meanwhile, the former Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima advocates power rotation between the northern and southern parts of the country.
Shettima said the presidency should shift to the Southern region of the country by 2023 in the spirit of fairness and justice.
He warned Nigeria must not be allowed to implode as no country in the continent would be able to accommodate its huge population.
“I believe in equity, justice and fairness. After power has resided in the North for eight years, there is a need for a power shift to the South,” he said.
The book, which is prescribed as a wonderful resource material on the culture and language of the Margi people of Borno State; is a story Gadzama’s life covering details of special events in his life as they are permanently recorded which include, flying to America for education without a scholarship; four years of black African student in Kansas, USA in 1960s, among others.
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