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Former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida advises Nigerians to pray to God for guidance in the nation\u2019s political endeavors.<\/p>\n
This was said by Babangida on Tuesday while he was interacting with journalists in Minna, the capital of Niger, as part of celebrations for his birthday.<\/p>\n
On August 17, 2022, the former head of state will become 81 years old.<\/p>\n
In his address, he also asked Nigerians to hold onto their confidence in the nation\u2019s unity and their unwavering belief that things will improve.<\/p>\n
Also Read:\u00a02023: Be Tolerant, Nigerians Deserve Right To Vote Anyone \u2013 Moghalu Cautions Electorates<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI plead with us to be patient with one another and be prayerful for God\u2019s intervention in our socio-economic and political activities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to continue to sensitise people on how to live in peace and harmony for peace, progress and for the continuous existence as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n He also advised the media to support efforts to promote the country\u2019s unity.<\/p>\n \u201cYou should put in more deliberate efforts to change the Nigerian narrative. If the media and journalists ignore the spreaders of hate, they will not have a platform to pass their messages across,\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are doing enough to promote the unity of the country. You can change the psyche of Nigerians.<\/p>\n \u201cI implore you to ignore those that preach hate and disunity. Ignore them and don\u2019t bother about them. You can only do this through objective reportage and I like the debate that is ongoing in the media.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is giving the people the insight that they need to see. What the media is doing now is very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Nigerian President, Ibrahim Babangida Former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida advises Nigerians to pray to God for guidance in the nation\u2019s political endeavors. This was said by Babangida on Tuesday while he was interacting with journalists in Minna, the capital of Niger, as part of celebrations for his birthday. On August 17, 2022, the former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}