{"id":98524,"date":"2021-10-27T06:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=98524"},"modified":"2021-10-27T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T05:05:40","slug":"strong-businesses-without-functional-political-system-will-collapse-says-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/strong-businesses-without-functional-political-system-will-collapse-says-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong businesses without functional political system will collapse, says El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that there is a disconnect between political and economic elites in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Tuesday in Abuja by the governor<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> during a panel discussion titled \u2018Mobilising for Political Economy\u2019 at the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#27).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the governor,<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0nation-building is a deliberate exercise, and everyone must work together to build a nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI have seen a level of disconnect between the political and economic elite. We discovered that those in the economic class just want to do their business, make money and live in Banana Island,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cBut however strong your business is, without a functional political system and competent public service, that business will collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThere should be a level of consensus between the economic and political elite about what are the basic minimum and work on them continuously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe must come together and decide to build our nation \u2014 no one will do it for us. Our best and brightest must get involved in politics otherwise things will continue to grow worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking further, the governor explained that our founding father focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/28\/vaccine-nationalism-will-thwart-efforts-to-restart-tourism-sector-says-fg\/\">nationalism<\/a>, not nation building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cOur founding father focused on nationalism and a lot of national competition, but it did not serve us well,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIf Awolowo once said that Nigeria is a mere geographical expression, it is true but what he didn\u2019t add is that most nations were at one time or another mere geographical expression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe orientation and level of sacrifices of the political and economic elites are the combinations that more or less determine the trajectory of nations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">El-Rufai added that Kaduna state managed to improve its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) because his government was deliberate in appointing only the best and brightest into public service rather than rewarding politicians with appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe need competent people in political and public services, but this is not the case in Nigeria, and things will not work. Unless the best and brightest hands are in the political system, the outcome will be sub-optimal and terrible,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThis is why I keep appealing to the educated, the experienced, and the accomplished in Nigeria to please come into political parties. Let us have a mass of decent people in politics, everything else will follow. But if we allow our political system to be populated by people with nothing to lose, this country will never achieve its potentials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that there is a disconnect between political and economic elites in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Tuesday in Abuja by the governor during a panel discussion titled \u2018Mobilising for Political Economy\u2019 at the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#27). 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