Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has come out to say he does not agree with those blasting the country’s Independence Day celebrations.

His spokesman, Laolu Akande, revealed this in a statement in Abuja recently.

According to him, the citizens should learn to guard their hearts and protect their capacity for idealism and creative optimism.

He added that Nigerian youths need to start moving away from the destructive and unproductive rent-seeking attitudes that trigger conflict to the reasoning for enhanced productivity.

His words, “I urge you to guard your hearts and protect your capacity for idealism and creative optimism.

“These are the tools with which you will build the Nigeria of our dreams; we have a future worth fighting for.

“Your generation has what it takes to move us away from the destructive and unproductive rent-seeking attitudes that engender conflict and on to the terrain of enhanced productivity.

“Your generation has the tools to usher in a new age of abundance and wealth creation that will lift our society beyond the hunger-induced and poverty-inducing squabbles over a national cake that has ceased to exist.

“As Nigeria seeks to find her proper place in the world in the 21st century, you are our nation’s most important resource.

“It is because of you that a united, peaceful and prosperous Nigeria is very possible.”