PDP presidential aspirant Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki declared Thursday that he is the bridge between all of Nigeria’s major divides including North and South, Muslim and Christian, youth and elders, public and private sectors as well as between the Executive and Legislative divides of government. He spoke Thursday at a breakfast meeting with media chiefs in Abuja.
Saraki, a former Senate President and former Governor of Kwara State, said things happened in Nigeria in recent years that no one could have imagined ten years ago. He said, “During our lifetime, one drove from Lagos through the night to Maiduguri and arrived in the morning without any fear. A Fulani man arrived in Enugu to rear cattle and was elected Mayor. Where did Nigeria go wrong?”
What he would do differently if elected president, Saraki said, is to arrive in office with a comprehensive plan and to work everyday as if it is his last day. He will fill the leadership vacuum, he said, because Nigeria has never been short of ideas or plans but what it has lacked is leadership. “We can’t solve all the country’s problems in the life of one or even two presidential terms but we should be the generation that started on the road to solving the problems,” Saraki said.
