Nigeria’ll be a world power if … –Ex-CJN

 

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, has said that Nigeria will not only be among the world powers but among the greatest economies of the world, if the country remained stable till the next 10 years.

Belgore said this in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday during a summit by members of the Ilorin Emirate under the aegis of ‘Third Estate,’ a group of  professionals of Ilorin emirate origin.

He said the prediction that Nigeria would disintegrate by 2015 and the Boko Haram menace were aimed at obliterating the corporate existence of the country.

“If we are stable for the next 10 years, Nigeria would be among not only world powers, it would be among the greatest economies too. We have everything on the ground. There is no state in Nigeria without mineral and plenty of rainfall. We have water everywhere. We have everything to make a great country,” he said.

Chairman, Third Estate, Dr. Yusuf Lawal; and the Vice-President, Igbo Delegates Assembly for the Northern states and Abuja, Mr. Truelove Njoku, called on the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the 2015 elections were transparent.

Lawal, who urged members of the Emirate, the Government and people of Kwara State and all northerners to aggregate and articulate their interests so as to make good inputs during the proposed national conference, decried thuggery and high poverty level in Nigeria.

Njoku said the national conference proposed by the Federal Government should be used to discuss issues that would strengthen Nigeria’s unity and development.

He said Igbo people were opposed to the disintegration of Nigeria and warned that it would be unwise and counter-productive for anybody to seek the disintegration of the country.