The Vice President of the Federation, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has urged the citizens that the unity of the country should be prioritized above every other thing.
He continued by saying that the nation’s unity must be preserved because its diversity is what gives it its power.
Osinbajo added that it was important to make sure that the sacrifices made by earlier heroes, particularly those who paid the ultimate price, were not in vain.
The vice president spoke on Sunday during an interreligious church service held in Abuja to commemorate Armed Forces Remembrance Day in 2023.
He said: “There is a need to place the unity of the nation above selfish/sectional interests by guarding our utterances and being accommodating to our diversity and sensitive to the plight of others.
“We need to blur the lines across ethnic and religious divides through messages of tolerance for peace, unity, and progress of the country. This administration is determined more than ever to strengthen and promote the oneness and indivisibility of Nigeria because the strength of this great nation lies in our diversity.
“The first stanza of the national anthem says ‘the labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain’ cannot be overemphasised, and this is why we cherish the memory of these fallen heroes who planted the seeds of unity, peace and progress particularly those who made the supreme sacrifice before our independence during the First and Second World Wars and also in the unfortunate Civil War that followed,” he concluded.
