Tinubu: Current Challenges Will Give Birth To A Better Nigeria

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has said that the challenges facing Nigeria at the moment will give birth to a better nation.

He stressed that the process of achieving the required result, though difficult, would lead the country to good fortunes, if undertaken.

Tinubu explained that the challenges demanded that the country changed from dependent on oil or fall by the wayside, adding that there was no third option.


The former Lagos State governor spoke in Abuja on Saturday at the dinner/award ceremony organised by the Ahmadu Bellow University Alumni Association.

His words: “Our nation struggles mightily to give birth to its better self. This is a difficult but necessary process that we must undertake, if we are to find our true way and reach the good destiny that God has written for us.

“The old model of an oil dependant political economy has shattered before our eyes. To feign blindness and act as if nothing has changed is to insist on failure that will mortgage our present and future.

“Nigeria, our beloved Nigeria, is being called forth to define itself. Do we remain as we are or do we dare believe ourselves capable of something better, something more fecund and sublime?

“That which we decide shall shape not only our lives, but will reverberate across the boundaries of space and time. What we decide shall affect the future of this nation for years to come, just as it will influence the trajectory of brethren African nations and the entire race of Black people. Our ancestors, they now watch, hoping we do that which is right. Our descendants too watch, praying the same thing.”