Abdullahi Sule, governor of Nasarawa state, says those
describing Nigeria as a failed state are ignorant of what the government of
President Muhammadu Buhari is doing to tackle the rising insecurity in the
country.
In an editorial on Tuesday, Financial Times said Nigeria
will become a problem far too big for the world to ignore if urgent and drastic
measures are not taken by the Buhari administration.
“The definition of a failed state is one where the
government is no longer in control. By this yardstick, Africa’s most populous
country is teetering on the brink,” the international business newspaper had
written.
But reacting to the editorial when he featured on Sunday
Politics, a Channels Television programme, Sule said those who described
Nigeria in such way do not mean well for the country.
“My concern is people who think nothing is being done, we
are failed state, we are a this, we are a that, these statements that are being
made by people who probably don’t mean well for Nigeria,” he said.
“And do not understand what the government is and how the
government is trying.”
Sule, who was speaking from Houston, United States of
America, admitted that the country is battling security challenges but said
Buhari is constantly working to put an end to the rising insecurity.
The Nasarawa governor said that in the previous
administration, Nigeria was tagged as a “failed” state when there were bombings
and state of emergencies in four states of the federation but such is not the
case at the moment.
“This question of failed state has happened many times in
some of these international media, they have tried, not for this
administration, for the previous administrations,” he said.
“When Abuja was being bombed, when Adamawa and three states
were declared state of emergency. They were calling is almost failed state. Do
we any state that is under emergency. I don’t think anybody is going to tell
you that we are doing fantastic in the areas of managing security. Are we
improving in other areas?
“This is the one I have you the answer, I said, yes. Are we
having security challenges in Nigeria? I tell you, yes, a lot of them, in every
state of the federation, we are having one problem or the other.
“But they are worse
in certain places like in Borno, like in Zamfara, like in Katsina.”
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