From Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin
Ambassadorial nominee, Prof Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has said that greater private-public-partnership (PPP) will play prominent for further Nigeria.
He opined that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has initiated and implementing policies, programmes and projects that will catapult Nigeria to greater development and become a cynosure in the comity of nations.
He, therefore, called on the private and corporate sectors as well as individuals to collaborate with the administration for the upliftment of the nation.
He profusely thanked President Tinubu for nominating him for the post of Nigeria’s ambassador.
When approached on Thursday by journalists on how he feels about his nomination, he also said, he was excited over the nomination.
He said: “I want to thank Mr. President very much for nominating me. He has the confidence in me that I can deliver. I want to thank him for this nomination and the confidence that he has in me.
“He has also made many fantastic appointments of competent people in the past. He believes in merit and that has shown in his appointments.”
Fasina, who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti,; Ekiti State, said he will facilitate bilateral dialogues with skill development institutions in host country to engage Nigerian youth, especially those in the diaspora, on areas of skills acquisition and he would encourage those youth to return back home to contribute to the national development
He said Nigeria has enormous potential and with favourable policies and good operating environment as the Tinubu administration has been providing, Nigerian youths need to maximise those oportunities.
He opined that the youths are vibrant, resourcesful, energetic, adventurous, resilient, productive, technologically savvy, and determined to achieve growth.
The Prof said that even if the youth travel abroad to acquire more knowledge, they should come back and contribute their quota towards nation building and development.
Fasina said: “For me, I used to tell people, if you must travel abroad, you must go with the aim of knowledge and skills acquisition and bring it back to your country. We need to develop our country.
‘In tourism, we have many exciting sites that when properly developed and harnessed, people from other countries will be trooping in there for tourism. Some of the best tourism centers in Africa are Nigeria.
There are many of such places in this country. And once we develop them and put our own people there, train them, they would make a lot of money for the establishments and the nation as well as earn huge income for themselves. I tell the youth to sit down, think outside the box,; generate good ideas and create the wealth for themselves and the nation.
“People of other countries are using their resources to develop their countries and making things easier for their people.”
So we need to build Nigeria as a nation, develop it in a way that we produce what we use and use what we produce. And in a way, that people from other countries will come here to promote our economy.”
