Mr Andrew Young, former Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Nations (UN) has described Nigeria as a nation destined to be great.
“I see the nation, Nigeria, rising and occupying a significant position like China, US and other great nations of the world,” he said on Friday in Abeokuta at a symposium, part of the activities to celebrate the 80th birth anniversary of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Citing Obasanjo as an example, Young noted that Nigeria had produced great minds who had done great things and respected all over the world.
“I have seen Nigerians abroad. They are brilliant, intelligent and hardworking and respectable”, he said.
He, however, expressed concern that Nigeria was yet to fully realise and appreciate the great destiny it carries.
Young likened Nigeria’s destiny to the Biblical Israelites whose ancestors served under slavery for several years in spite being destined by God to be great.
He said, “The slavery of Nigeria is corruption, laziness, selfishness and refusal to realise that she is a nation destined to be great.”
Young, however, expressed the belief that Nigeria was set to be liberated from whatever it had become slave unto.
The ambassador described the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), to be inaugurated on Saturday as one of the platforms that would launch Nigeria into enviable heights among nations of the world.
“I see the library as something that will not only teach young Nigerians about their rich heritage, but will also point them to the great future of the nation”, he added
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