Pan-African crusader and a Kenyan professor of law, Patrick Lumumba has called on African countries to rally around Nigeria to guarantee the continent’s stability.
Prof. Patrick Lumumba, the President, of Patrick Lumumba Foundation, Kenya spoke while delivering a lecture at the 2023 Annual Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Leadership and Good Governance Lecture and Awards in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
According to the professor of law, no African country could enjoy peace if Nigeria with a population of over 250 million people is allowed to be plunged into crisis as being witnessed in some African countries
because it is the nerve center of the entire African continent.
“African countries would be sitting on gunpowder ready to explode if the peace needed to stabilize the African continent is allowed to elude Nigeria.
He said no African country can accommodate and host refugees from Nigeria if the country is plugged into a crisis as experienced in some nations in the continent.
*If there is instability in Nigeria, the whole of Africa will suffer, because other African countries cannot contend with the large population that will be affected,” he added.
According to Lumumba, Nigerians on February 25 and March 11 took to the pools and elected leaders at national and state levels, it behooves all to protect the motherland and ensure that the country remains united and stable.
The renowned Pan-Africanist crusader who said as a Lawyer, he would not discuss matters relating to the election results that are still sub judice called on Nigerian politicians to accept whatever outcome of the election.
He urged Nigerian politicians to give priority to the unity of the country and preserve it for
the next generation and tasked politicians to emulate the life of Honesty, Transparency, true leadership, and sacrifice that the Late Ahmadu Bello lived and died for.
He argued that what the continent of Africa need is a change of character of its citizens and sincere leadership and followers to fix its system and not technology or machine.
He said that no matter the introduction of technology in the electoral system, if citizens are bad and corrupt the system would still not work because it would be compromised.
“What is more important for us to provide good governance and improve the system is the human beings and not the machine created by the human beings themselves,” added.
