Recognizing the importance of children and not allowing the present political combat among politicians in Nigeria, the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, while celebrating Children’s Day with Nigerian children on Friday, said “the society we abuse today will take its revenge on our children tomorrow”.
Obi, who resigned his membership in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Twitter, noted that no country survives by recklessness and extravagance.
The former governor, known to be highly disciplined and unyielding to all that is bad, asserted that “unless the present dangerous trend of governmental failure is reversed, the Nigerian child remains disadvantaged,”
Obi urged children across the nation to remain on good behaviour.
“As we celebrate our children today, I also urge that they remain on good behaviour, take their education more seriously and remain law-abiding and valuable to the society. Happy Children’s Day,” Obi said.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Obi gave the reason for his exit from PDP, saying he caught wind of a gang up against him.
May 27 is a national day to celebrate the importance of children; it provides policymakers and families with an opportunity to consider them.
Children’s Day is an international holiday that was first established in Nigeria in 1964.
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare.
“World Children’s Day offers each of us an inspirational entry-point to advocate, promote and celebrate children’s rights, translating into dialogues and actions that will build a better world for children,” United Nations stated.
Adding: “World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare.
November 20th is an important date as it is the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Since 1990, World Children’s Day also marks the anniversary of the date that the UN General Assembly adopted both the Declaration and the Convention on children’s rights.
Mothers and fathers, teachers, nurses and doctors, government leaders and civil society activists, religious and community elders, corporate moguls and media professionals, as well as young people and children themselves, can play an important part in making World Children’s Day relevant for their societies, communities and nations.