Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has warned that Nigeria’s disintegration holds no gain for all stakeholders, adding that “all of us will lose out.”
He urged journalists to use their position as agenda setters to ensure that the country remains safe, secure, and united.
Osinbajo stated this on Monday when he received at the Presidential Villa, the national executive of the Nigeria Union of Journalists led by its President, Chris Isiguzo.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Osinbajo to journalists: your civic vigilance, steadfast belief in rule of law, commendable’.
The Vice President said, “this country is ours, whether we are press, politicians or religious people, the country is ours, and we must do everything to ensure that the country remains safe, secure, and united, and this so important.
“I thank you for your civic vigilance, for the very kind words you have spoken about Nigeria, and for remaining steadfast in your belief for the rule of law and press freedom in the country.”
He added that “as I keep saying, the elite in our country, those of us who have had the benefit of education, positions and all of that, we owe millions of our people who are poor, who have no access and have no voice, a duty to ensure that we don’t let things become worse for them.”
