Abuja – Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, on Wednesday, advised Nigerian youths to avoid anything that threatened the sovereignty and unity of the country.
Gowon gave his advice at a National Security Seminar on "unity in Diversity: Security and National Development", sorted out by the Department of State Service (DSS) in Abuja.
He additionally encouraged the young people not to permit a circumstance where Nigerians would battle each other.
"You are the eventual fate of this nation. In all that you do, guarantee that we fabricate the nation in light of a legitimate concern for all.
"Guarantee that you show improvement over what we have accomplished for you. This is my supplication to you,'' he told young people.
On the calls for rebuilding or withdrawal by various gatherings and areas in the nation, Gowon informed the instigators to be careful regarding the privileges of others.
He denounced circumstances where certain people and intrigue bunches cover up under the right to speak freely and affiliation ensured in the 1999 Constitution to make danger the solidarity and power of the nation.
" My view and call is that all Nigerians should like their nation, right or wrong, however yet request a change for good and better''
On his part, the Director-General of DSS, Mr Lawal Daura, exhorted all gatherings and people set on seeking after their disruptive and separatist exercises that undermine national security, to have a reconsider.
Daura said that security and law implementation organizations would not sit by while separatist components proceeded with their exercises that put in danger the lives and properties of well behaved and guiltless Nigerians.
"We will send the full amalgam of the security foundation to manage subsisting and rising advancements equipped for jeopardizing lives and properties and additionally our corporate presence as a country.
"All inclusive, the security organizations frame the center of establishments that offer spine to statehood.
"Thus, every movement that speaks to an existential danger to the country is an immediate test to the security organizations which must be reacted to.
"The security segment sees the solidarity of this country as a hallowed trust and this errand we will do our most extreme to meet," he said.
Daura said that the class exhibited a chance to investigate differing points of view on national difficulties with a view to increasing further experiences and comprehension of same.
"It is trusted that we will distinguish our qualities and open up them while advancing suitable choices to cure our shortcomings,'' he said. (NAN)
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