A former Governor of Cross River
State, Donald Duke, has declared his interest to contest for the Office of
President, in the upcoming 2019 general elections.
The 56-year-old made the
announcement during an interview with Deutsche Welle Africa on Friday.
He is yet to disclose the
platform on which he will be running.
When asked what he thinks he can
do better than Buhari, he said the current administration was totally out of
tune with the current realities of Nigeria.
“I see such obvious failings; I
see a leadership that is steeped in the past and that’s really refused to
evolve with a nation that’s predominantly a nation of young, aspiring people,
and still doing the things the way they were done many many years ago and did
not work.
“I think our leadership in the
country today is totally out of tune with the current realities of our nation.
There’s a disconnect somewhere. So, when you have a leadership that blames its
young people, for instance, of not striving enough, or being lazy, it’s a
disconnect because the tools to make them achieve their aspirations have not been
provided.
“Look at the state of education.
The state of education today is a far cry from what I received. So the elites
amongst us try to send their children abroad; that’s a dream. They’re gonna
breed a generation of children who are disconnected from home and from abroad.
“We had good schools here that
could compete with schools anywhere in the world. We had some of the best
medical facilities in the 60s and early 70s, all of that has gone to rot. The
president himself receives medical treatment abroad. That is a sad state of
affairs.
“We can’t go on this way and keep complaining.
Someone has to take the bull by the horns and I intend to that,” Duke said.
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You have my vote
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