BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto
The immediate past governor of Sokoto State and Senator representing Sokoto South Senatorial District, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said that Nigeria is presently not only in a comma but in an Intensive Care Unit ICU.
Tambuwal, who was the 2023 general elections Presidential Campaign Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who spoke with some journalists in his home in Sokoto on Friday night, added that, it has gotten to the point where journalists did not need to ask any newsmaker questions to know how things are worsening by the day in the country.
The lawmaker, while making a passionate appeal to journalists to help the country by being more objective and stepping up in their reportage, added that, Nigeria needs the media now more than ever before.
”There is more than enough to talk about in Nigeria today. Let all of us, as Nigerians speak to our humanity. The situation of this country has gotten to the top. Which one do you want to talk about? Is it insecurity, hunger, hardship or name it? And most amusingly, we now have leadership without compassion.”
Tambuwal, who urged Nigerians to come together and salvage the country from the current trajectory of uncertainty, also stressed that, both the leaders and the led will give account of their deeds in the hereafter, hence the need to fear God in our dealings.
”Let us remember that we will all give account of our deeds here on earth. Therefore, let’s come together to salvage the nation from the current path it has found itself. We all have the responsibility of ensuring that the country gets better for all of us,” he stressed.
Tambuwal, who is the Senate Committee chairman on Housing and Urban Development, went down memory lane to recall how they founded All Progressives Congress (APC), test runned it for four years before he saw the direction the party was heading and before he opted out for good.
He further divulged that his leaving the APC despite being a founding member was a testament to the fact that, the party was not on the track towards salvaging and bringing Nigeria to the path of prosperity.
