{"id":38107,"date":"2020-12-28T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=38107"},"modified":"2020-12-28T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:25:23","slug":"only-the-ignorant-call-nigeria-a-failed-state-gov-sule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=38107","title":{"rendered":"Only the ignorant call Nigeria a failed state \u2013Gov. Sule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Nasarawa<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, says those calling Nigeria a failed state are ignorant of what the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is doing to revamp the economy and fight insurgency in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sule, who was a guest on a Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, on December 27, was reacting to a publication by an international publication, the Financial Times, describing Nigeria as \u201cdrifting towards a failed state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sule dismissed the report, describing it as one \u201cborne out of ignorance and a deliberate ploy to dent the image of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stated that \u201cThose saying that Nigeria is a failed state are just ignorant and are trying to undermine what President Muhammadu Buhari is doing in terms of the economy and security. I believe that although much more still needs to be done especially in the area of security, the country has significantly improved,\u201d Sule said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Financial Times had, in a recent editorial, wrote that \u201cNigeria will become a problem far too big for the world to ignore\u201d if urgent and drastic measures are not taken by the Buhari administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe definition of a failed state is one where the government is no longer in control. By this yardstick, Africa\u2019s most populous country is teetering on the brink,\u201d the newspaper wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing the recent abduction of 344 schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of Katsina State<\/a>, the newspaper said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the latest kidnapping turns out to be the work of Boko Haram, it would mark the spread of the terrorist group from its north-eastern base. Even if the mass abduction was carried out by \u201cordinary\u201d bandits, it underlines the fact of chronic criminality and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeadly clashes between herders and settled farmers have spread to most parts of Nigeria. In the oil-rich, but impoverished Niger-Delta region, extortion through the sabotage of pipelines is legendary,\u201d the paper wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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