The President of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari; the governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Nweze Umahi; the governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje; the governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong and others took off today to meet with the President of South Africa, President, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to address the challenges being faced by Nigerians in South Africa.
The above was disclosed in Abakaliki yesterday by Governor Umahi when he was addressing mammoth crowd that gathered in celebration of Nigeria Independence @59 and Ebonyi @23. “By the grace of Mr. President, I am travelling with him to South Africa to address the problems of our people in South Africa”. He said.
The Governor also maintained his stand that Ebonyians, South east and Nigerians should pray for our leaders as Christians, Muslims etc according to the word of God. “I keep saying that castigating our leaders openly will not add any value to what we seek rather we should be more focused on how to improve the virtuous of our people, how to improve on our infrastructure and a better living for our people and these should be our concern as haters are never lovers and lovers are never haters.
“We must as Nigerians do everything to enhance our cultural values and better our lots outside the country. The way we are treated outside the country is not very encouraging so we must have to do empirical evaluation of ourselves”, he added.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign affairs has stated that the visit will determine if there will be need for further evacuation of Nigerian from South Africa. The statement reads, “The binational commission is an annual summit between Nigeria and South Africa. They will discuss issues that border on trade, investment and other things that may arise.
“If there are new issues around the xenophobia attacks, they may be discussed and I think the outcome of the meeting will determine if there will be another batch of evacuees that will return to Nigeria. If at the end of the day, everybody agrees with the discussion, there may not be any need returning anybody.”
Ends.
Francis Nwaze
Special Assistant to the Governor on
New Media
2nd October, 2019
