Nigeria’s political system, according to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, has failed the country.
He believes that the politics of 1999 are no longer relevant since young people are poised to take over.
On Sunday, the Governor made the remarks at a Peoples Democratic Party stakeholder gathering in Benin City.
“Nigeria is entering a new era; a new paradigm has emerged,” Obaseki stated. The politics we began in 1999 has now or is about to expire.”
“So anybody who is playing politics the way it was played in 1999 cannot succeed because the children who were five, six years old in 1999, today are now getting married. They are now the ones that are going to be in charge.
“So if we don’t provide leadership, they will push us aside. They are more than us, I have their data. they are not happy. They did not like what we did to them during #EndSARS. So we don’t have to wait for them to express themselves again.
“Let us provide leadership. Because as you know, those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable. So what you are seeing in insecurity today, in hunger, in the desperation of our people, is the sign of the failure of our political system. And we have to correct it.
“We have started in Edo and we must continue. The old order can no longer hold. There is a new order. We have a choice, either to shape the new order or the new order will overwhelm us.”
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