Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the elite to make responsible input in fostering national unity, stability and creating opportunities for majority of Nigerians.
Osinbajo made this call in a keynote address at the 2020 Leadership Conference and Awards in Abuja.
He commended the Board and Management of the Leadership Newspapers and their collaborators for putting together a forum for such dialogue.
Osinbajo said that the meeting was coming against the backdrop of economic adversity, inflamed fault lines and social resentments.
He said that in the light of all the challenges, the theme of the conference, “National and Regional Insecurity: The Role of Political and Non-Political Actors in Stabilisation and Consensus Building”, was clearly an inspired one.
He said that the external reasons Nigerians cited as reasons for problems could not thrive without severe internal weaknesses in the society.
According to him, the chief weakness is a human one – the elite, the political, economic, and religious elite.
He said the critiques were manifesting as insurrections and insurgencies along various axes of identity.
