Former Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ANCP) in the recently held elections, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, says she will unite Nigerians if given the opportunity to serve as President.
She stated this on Thursday during an interview on Channels Televisions Politics Today in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
“A divided country needs a leader who will immediately send a signal that it is indeed one country and that we are one people, not a President who is parochial in his disposition.
“The president has no luxury of having an enemy. Any true leader cannot have an enemy amongst his people. So I would unite the people behind that sincerity and openness of leadership that will give people a sense that we are one people”, she stated.
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She also decried the level of unemployment in the country, stressing that the nation is in serious trouble.
While regretting that nearly 40 percent of the youths are unemployed, she stated that Nigeria would have been put up for rescue operations if it is a public quoted company.
“We are in serious trouble. If we were to be a publicly quoted company, we would have been put up for a special team to undertake a rescue operation on us.
“Do you understand what it means for us to have near to 25 percent of the unemployment rate in the country for more than 40 percent of our young people to be unemployed? she asked.
On the cases of suicide rate and out-of-school children in the nation, Ezekwesili called for a radical sense of change of ways of doing things.
She believes that there is hope for the citizens as President Muhammadu Buhari has been given a second term mandate that began with his inauguration yesterday.
