Ezekwesili said that leaders, and not rulers, would take Nigeria to the right destination.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Pastor Chinedu Ezekwesili, husband of the former minister of education Oby Ezekwesili, on Friday said restructuring of Nigeria would ensure speedy development.
Ezekwesili, who pastors The Everlasting Arms Parish of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Garki, Abuja spoke at the Purposeful Men Symposium organised to mark his 70 birthday in Abuja.
The cleric said his dream at 70 was to see Nigeria become a super nation God had made it to be.
He said the country, as currently being managed, might not attain its full potential, hence the need to restructure for effective nation building.
According to him, Nigeria is like a troubled house with a faulty foundation, which can only be fixed by addressing the foundation and creating a new structure.
“The way we are running it, it cannot work; there is need to restructure this nation,” he said.
Ezekwesili said that there was a need for all to come together and agree on how to move as a nation.
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“This is a country, not a nation; unless we come together and decide to move forward, we cannot move forward,” the pastor said.
Ezekwesili said that leaders, and not rulers, would take Nigeria to the right destination.
In his remarks, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, said “there is a need for purposeful men to rise in the country”.
Bakare said there were people behind insecurity in the country and government at all levels needed to be purposeful in dealing with them.
He said the situation in the country would only get better when government purposefully dealt with people making money from crime.
Wife of the celebrant, Mrs Ezekwesili, described her husband as a purposeful man to be emulated by the younger generation.
“There are many questions to be asked, and when we begin to find answers, we will begin to find our way out of the precipice,” she said.
Former minister of information, Frank Nweke Jnr, was also at the event.