Elites responsible for insecurity in Nigeria – VP, Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has maintained that activities of the Nigeria elite class with regards to regionalism and ethnicism was responsible for insecurity.

He bemoaned the activities of the elite saying that it’s promoting and fueling crisis and insecurity in Nigeria.

Osinbajo states this at the Leadership Conference and Awards on Thursday at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

The Conference was titled: National and Regional Insecurity: The role of Political and Non- Political Actors in Stabilization and Consensus Building”

Osinbajo said elites’ criticism of government’ action was triggering insurrection and insurgency in Nigeria, while he extolled the virtues odmrhe late founder of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah who died on 11th December 2020.

He enjoined the elites and other Nigerians to cooperate Wit government in tackling insecurity in Nigeria.

According to him, the insecurity in Nigeria is man-made caused by irresponsibility of some elites, adding that the so called elites fanning the embers of insecurity depends on dubious activitied dubious activities in promoting regional and ethnic card.

“The elites use that to acquire more for themselves,” Osinbajo said adding, “The chief weakness that we have is the human one.

“Our political, economic and religious elites that are so far to be social irresponsible either by selfish interest or lack of self awareness and unable to build the social and political consensus upon which a just and orderly society can start.

“And because government must form some consensus, the elites use to paint them dubious one. They promote tribal and religious frontline for legitimacy.

“And I don’t speak of ethnic or religious marginalization which is another elites dog whisper acquire more for themselves in the contrast of political good. I speak of the division between the have not, the have no hope, and the who seems to have it all.

“So the attacks received on law and order are themselves symptomatic and they are driven by emerging critics of the fabric of order itself.

“This critics are manifesting as insurrection and insurgencies along various aspect of our identity,” Osinbajo said.

Speaking on the activities of secessionist group, the Vice President advised young Nigerians agitating for separation to think twice and warned that secession will only lead Nigeria to extinction.

The Vice President insisted that truth must be told even if it hurts, stressing that the younger ones should know that secession means extinction and not development.