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Donald Duke Declares To Vie For President. by Adonis86(m): 2:30pm On Jan 18, 2018 |
Duke indicates interest for 2019 presidency.
ABUJA – A former Governor of Cross River
State, Mr. Donald Duke, has said that he will
contest for presidency in the 2019 general
elections.
Donald Duke
Mr. Duke, who declared his interest for the
plum job at the 3rd Mike Omotosho Annual
Lecture titled, “Mellinials as Protagonists in
Nation Building,” on Sunday night in Abuja,
promised to kick-start the process at the right
circumstances.
According to him, “I am entitled to run for the
presidency of this country. I am entitled to it.
Only on right circumstances I will aspire for it.
I don’t shy away from responsibility, only the
right circumstance, I will aspire for presidency
of this country. I have what it takes to be
president of this country.
Duke, however, challenged the youths to fully
participate in the electoral process by getting
their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, and
sensitising others ahead of 2019 general
election, rather than loafing around, looking for
who to heap their problems on.
The former governor charged that “It was high
time Nigerians begun to project people with
the technical know-how to take the country to
the Promised Land.
He said, “I hear young people say to me that
why would there spend hours queuing and
casting their votes when at the end their votes
won’t count. And I tell that if their parents
conceived them they never gave up on them
considering the high mortality rate so why
would there not take a chance in building this
nation?
“We had young leadership at one stage or the
other. Even in our first republic, besides the
likes of Awolowo, Tafawa Balewa, M. T. Mbu
was in his twenties when he became a
minister.
“Gowon was 30 when he became the head of
state. It comes back to the disaster therein
because most of them didn’t have experience
in governance, which led us into war. We need
the combination of both.
“What I think we should be doing is to a
government that is youth friendly to provide
opportunities because we need to groom the
next set of leadership.”
Mr. Duke, who disapproved of recent death of
Nigerian migrants on Mediterranean sea and
slavery in Libya, couple with job loss and rate
of unemployment in Nigeria, summed it up, “I
don’t know what a definition of failed State is
and I don’t want to categorise Nigeria as a
failed state yet, however, a state that was
unable to provide for its people has faded up.
“So, if we are not there yet, we are walking
with our eyes open towards it. And we need to
pull the hand break now before it gets late.
The ex-governor, while rating the activities of
the present administration, said, there was
disconnection between President Muhammadu
Buhari and his cabinet members.
According to him, “The challenge we have
today is the disconnect. That is the challenge
of the governance today. Because if you
speak with the folks in government, and I am
been candid here.
I think we should stop to deceive ourselves
here and stop all these political correctness.
There is disconnecting between the president
and even the ministers.”
He also attributed the failure of governance on
the lack of consequences for erring leaders
which has given room for incompetence. |
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