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Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has urged Nigerians to embrace federalism, credible elections, and elite consensus as the foundation for the country’s progress over the next 65 years.

El-Rufai made this call while interacting with clergy, professionals, and citizens, in Owerri, Imo State capital.

H stressed the urgent need for a collective vision to address Nigeria’s structural challenges.

The former FCT Minister also explained that while Nigeria has made democratic gains since 1999, including regular elections, participation has drastically declined, from over 60 percent voter turnout in 2003 to barely 27 percent in 2023, reflecting growing public estrangement from the electoral process.

“The evidence compels us to say it plainly. Nigeria is the world’s most populous Black nation, projected to exceed 400 million by 2050, yet remains structurally fragile,” El-Rufai said.

The politician highlighted high poverty rates, unemployment among youth, inflation, and mounting public debt as pressing concerns that threaten national stability.

El-Rufai stressed that a new elite consensus, an agreement among political, business, and civil society leaders on the nation’s direction, is critical.

SmartPolician:
Just like Tinubu, El-Rufai is busy shouting true federalism, but the day he gets the opportunity to lead Nigeria, he will deny he ever said that.

President Goodluck Jonathan no try at all. This is a man from a region who needed it the most. He served a Diepreye Alamieyeseigha who fought for it for years. Got the opportunity to lead and totally forgot true federalism.

gigabyte13:
🤣😅😅😂😂😅🤣
😂😂😅😅🤣🤣😅😅
Is more popular than the political party he claim to represent....
He just wants to be in the news at every opportunity.
Like he wasn't a part of the destruction of the nation.
Forming Lord and savior now
Mtchewwwwwwwwww
Evil people

Kingju:
This guy na complete idiot, did he allow fair election in the last one in Kaduna?

99thEnemy:
The question now is, why wait until now to advocate for this?

Shikini:
These are the kinds of reforms
Nigeria needs

But the thief in Abuja prefers to increase
fuel price, increase taxes etc and call them reforms
.

Shikini:
These are the kinds of reforms
Nigeria needs

But the thief in Abuja prefers to increase
fuel price, increase taxes etc and call them reforms
.

AMINDA:
Yes. The first and only governor to introduce electronic voting at local government level. APC lost some local governments at state LG elections during his time. Something unheard of at the time. He also enforced full local government autonomy as governor of Kaduna. Uba Sani came into power and repealed the electronic voting law, going back to manual voting.

Kingju:
All these things you posted na propaganda, where you in kaduna and did you vote in the last election? Where you aware of the rigging he did especially for the last LGA that was supposed to determine the final result. I'm telling you of first hand experience not something I read on the paper