KADUNA —  Governor  Mukhtar Yero  of Kaduna State has asked Nigerians to stop the blame game over the state of insecurity in the country and join hands with the leadership to defeat the country’s common adversaries.
This was contained in the governor’s Democracy Day message to the people of the state.

He said: “In our case, we are presently facing insecurity and it is the responsibility of all of us to join hands in defeating those bent on truncating our progress as a people. This is not time for blame game as disunity will only serve the interest of our common adversaries.

“Let’s continue to give support to our leaders and the security forces in this fight because united we shall win.”
The statement was signed by his Director General, Media and Publicity, Alhaji Ahmed Maiyaki in Kaduna, yesterday.

According to Yero, “the last 15 years of democratic stability in the country is a testimony that our great country is on the march towards entrenching an enduring democratic culture as the only means of exercising power by popularly elected representatives of the people.

”We have never had such a long period of uninterrupted democratic governance in our history as a nation and this calls for celebrations while we continue to trudge on in the face of our current challenges. We must not despair as a people because better days are certainly ahead of us.”

Yero insisted that every nation the world over had its own peculiar challenges, just as we had insecurity as the major problem currently facing the country.

He, therefore, called on citizens of Kaduna State and Nigerians in general to use the occasion of this year’s Democracy Day to pray for peace and stability of the country, even as concerted efforts were being made to end insurgency and other crimes in the country.

The Governor however asked politicians to desist from promoting the culture of political indiscipline and use of abusive languages as the country approaches the 2015 general elections adding that the attitude of ‘’do or die politics’’ would take the nation nowhere.