Speaking during his visit to the palace of the Emir of Gusau, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello, he described Nigeria as one of the greatest countries in the world. Read his statement below...
"Let me begin by saying that am very honoured by this warm
welcome that has been given me and l bring very warm greetings from
President Muhammadu Buhari whom l had the pleasure of seeing in London
just about this time last week," he said.
"It?s important that everywhere in our country is safe for
our people to work and live and I am especially pleased to see that His
Royal Highness has maintained this within this kingdom and anyone can
approach him and everyone can live here.
This I think is very worthwhile and l must commend you for this great work that you are doing.
And we have been around to see the works of his Excellency,
the governor and in-fact that?s what we are spending the whole of today
doing.
We have been here since 11am
in the morning and we have been to Gunmi, we are still going round the
state and all of these shows that there is lot of work going on and we
are extremely proud of the work that Governor Yari is doing and that our
great party, the APC is doing also in this state.
The message that l have is only to say that this country is
one of the greatest countries in the world, there is no question at all
about that. We see that in another ten years, probably we will be
measuring with the 15th largest economies in the world.
A lot of that will depend on how hard we work but more
importantly on our staying united. The reason why we are such an
important country is that we are a big country and we are diverse, we
have arable land everywhere, solid minerals everywhere, even here in
Zamfara State.
The Federal Government is committed to developing all of
the mineral resources especially here in Zamfara State. We intend to
work very hard on developing mineral resources and we must ensure that
all of these places are safe to live and to do business.
Our country's size is important and the diversity of our
people and resources are important. But we must stay together to be
able to reap the fruit of our size and the development of this country.
We must remain united to reap the fruit.
There are many countries in Africa, some of them are not bigger than Zamfara State, in fact many of them are not as big as Zamfara State and they are countries in Africa.
When you look at the sheer size and the diversity of
Nigeria, we have the potentials of becoming one of the truly great
countries of the world and l think that with the hard-work that we are
seeing and with the right leadership, leadership committed to the
people, committed to delivering services to the people, we can really
make a difference, we can become what God has purposed and planned for
us to be.
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