New Year: Only Unity, Patriotism Can Bring Progress, Prosperity- Southern Senators Insist

The members of the Senate of Southern extraction under Southern Senators Forum, says that Nigeria can only witness progress and prosperity if all citizens value unity and patriotism.

They stated this is a new year message by its chairman senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele in Abuja.

As the citizens step into another new year, the Senators, harps on the need to forge a united nation to fortify the country’s bonds and make it strong to overcome the cankerworms of corruption, insecurity and economic deprivation.

Bamidele appeals to religious and political leaders, not to make inflammatory comments that could further widen the existing cleavages and stoke the fire of disunity, that has been the main challenge ripping the country apart.

Bamidele states that the country was brought together through God’s design, and not by the knowledge of any mortal, urging Nigerians to be circumspect of this fact and guard the country’s unity jealously.

The Senator representing Ekiti Central wishes Nigerians a prosperous new year, urging them to make the right choice in the 2023 general elections, for the task of building a progressive nation realisable .