Utomi Urges Nigerians To Join Forces In Building United, Prosperous Country

CHAIRMAN of NCFront, Prof. Pat Utomi has urged Nigerian citizens to come together in 2022 with a common resolution to tackle the scourge of bad governance that has retarded progress of the country in different fronts.

NCFront is a non-governmental socio-political organisation which rallies various groups across religious, educational and political backgrounds to advocate positive reforms for effective democratic governance in Nigeria.

In a Christmas and New Year Message, Prof Utomi noted that 2021 was indeed marked with crisis ranging from terrorist killings, disease outbreak to economic hardship as witnessed by the citizens, which brought despair, made many to emigrate and others to suffer mental health challenges.

Despite these challenges witnessed in the year, he called on the people to seize opportunity of the Christmas season to seek for Grace to have a vision of a greater tomorrow, adding that the season presents a message of hope, humility, love, peace and service to neighbour.

His words, “On behalf of coalitions of political actors and civil society organizations determined to save Nigeria and ensure that Nigeria will rise up again, I want to assure Nigerians that happy, happy days are about to return.

“But I want to begin by urging us to take from the message of Christmas the fact, as the prophet Isaiah puts it, God’s hands are not shortened that He cannot save.

“Hope is in the horizon. Better times will be here not just because of the promise of Christmas that assures us of God’s commitment to our well being but because the abuses of the powerful in 2021 have woken up the moral majority to say enough is enough, and prepare all people of goodwill you pool to fight back.”

Utomi who is also the founder of Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), urged people from all ethnic divides to come together for a common cause of salvaging the country from the throes of bad political leadership which has been unable to contain the spate of violence and killings in different parts of the country.

“I plead that all must resolve in 2022 to begin to take our country back from the traditional and professional politicians.

“Nigeria deserves a government of the people for the people and by the people and not a government of politicians by politicians and for politicians,” Utomi advocated.

“We in the alternative way are devoting this Christmas to a depolarization of a Nigeria deeply divided by bad politics, declining patriotism and a collapse of culture. We have it in us to rebuild and reclaim the promise of Nigeria, he added.