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President Yar’adua challenges Nigerians
Jun 11, 2007, 11:33
| | President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has declared power, security, education and mass transit as his priority areas and challenged Nigerians to join him in the fight to make the country a better place for current and future generations.
The President stated this while speaking to members of the Nigerian Community and Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in Germany on June 8, at a dinner hosted in his honour by the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Ambassador Abdul Rimdam.
He urged Nigerians to come together and join him transform the nation noting that there are abundant talents, resources, capacity and the capabilities to do it. He said every Nigerian who has something to contribute would be given the opportunity to participate, adding that Nigerians can determine their own future today.
"What we are in the future is what we chose today. We must chose the attitudes necessary to succeed - honesty, sincerity, hard work, and reject those attitudes that will lead us to destruction", he said.
President Yar’adua told the jubilant audience that the era of the "ruling elite" was over in Nigeria, replaced by the "servant leader" and reiterated his pledge to be a servant leader, and anybody who wants to be with him must follow suit.
He commended Nigerians in Germany for the reports of good conduct he received and urged them to continue being good ambassadors of the country.
Earlier, Ambassador Rimdam had thanked President Yar'adua for making Germany his first stop outside the country after inauguration, and appealed that the Chancery building be changed to a more befitting one.
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