The former Rivers State governor, who was guest speaker at TheNiche Annual lecture, themed “Why We Stride and Slip: Leadership, Nationalism and the Nigerian Condition,” said other leaders represented ethnic interests.The former governor, who spoke on Nigeria’s quest for nationhood before and after independence, noted that Nigeria has not had a national leader since independence.
“I became a speaker at 34, I became a governor at 42, I became a minister at 50. The elites will only bring up issues that they want to be tackled. Look at the issue of resource control that my South South people advocated for. But when we got there, and had a president from the region, did we achieve the resource control agenda?” he said.
Although he said he will not assess the Buhari administration, the former minister added that the former president believed his government should be about infrastructure and making living conditions better for the people.
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