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Our country must be ready for this change,\u201d Utomi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must be a time of healing and building. Our country must be healed from the damage of our recent history. We must build afresh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a time we look through the windshield and not looking at the rear blue mirror most of the time, because in focusing on yesterday, we are getting away from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat matters is that this country still has the potential for greatness. Nigeria is a country of enormous potential, yet it is being crippled by the kind of politics that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Utomi said if a country like Brazil can come back to life, Nigeria will rise up again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get Nigeria to rise up again, we must begin to remind ourselves that it is about what individuals can do to give to build a great new tomorrow for Nigeria not what about what can get,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a duty of care to our country that we need to do something in response to this existential challenge that is facing us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ituah Ighodalo, senior pastor of the Trinity House Church, and Remi Sonaiya, the 2015 presidential candidate of KOWA Party, also spoke at the town hall meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former presidential candidate and political economist, Pat Utomi has stated that Nigeria must change its brand of politics to become issues-based for the country to move forward. 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