Governor Fashola Challenges Nigerians to Secure Country’s Future
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has said the future of Nigeria lies in the hands of the people and they only can free themselves from the challenges the country is currently facing.
Fashola said this on Saturday shortly after he observed the Eid-El-Kabir prayers at the Lagos Central Mosque, Lagos.
“First, I use this opportunity to wish all Muslims Eid Mubarak and all Nigerians peace, but whatever we want for ourselves lies in our hands to achieve. I am sure that all will be well and it must be well only because we want it to be well. If it is well within us, it will be well around us and in our nation,” he said.
“Really, you must be grateful that you are alive and so, the last one year, everyday has been a season of countless blessings in spite of unwanted developments, but live goes on and as long as one is alive.
“You must remain grateful for many things; peace, love, well being and so long as there is hope, yesterday’s challenges can become history depending on how we turn things around. Those things should never overcome us and being alive means that there is a possibility to learn from yesterday, to improve upon today and to turn around tomorrow because really, builders look to tomorrow and we must be builders in our minds.
He also charged Nigerians to be steadfast in their endeavours to save the country, saying: “We must be builders in our actions, builders in our actions and in our thoughts and in our general disposition and therefore, tomorrow we can build from today.”
