2019 Presidency: Youths need more experience -Duke

They say when fish rots it is from the head. And when you want to solve the problem you go to the head. So, I have come to solve the problem so I’m going to the head. I have been a governor so I can’t be a governor again. Moreover, that is not where the problem is. The National Assembly is a talk-shop and the folks there are not there on ideology or principle. They are there because they feel it is a logical step in their political career. I am not for that. If I wanted to be in the Senate, I would have been there since 2007. For me, I am in politics because I want to make a difference. If I can’t make a difference in politics, I can go to the private sector and try and make a difference there. But my life must be distinguished by something. So that when my epitaph is being written, it will state that I touched lives. Not that I went through life ordinarily.

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Search of Atiku’s plane routine, says Fed Govt

Minister of State for Aviation Hadi Sirika has explained why airport officials searched Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar.

In a statement, Sirika said: “This is a mischievous attempt to grab the headlines. Nigerians need to know that one of the resolutions of the Atiku team at their recently-concluded, opulently-held Dubai retreat was to embark on scaremongering. This is one of such.

“For the records, all incoming passengers on international flights go through Customs, Immìgration, health and security screening.

“Where the aircraft is using the private, charter wing, as the PDP candidate did, such arrivals are met by a team of the Immìgration, Customs and other security agencies. They go to the arriving aircraft as a team.

“The airport authorities confirm that this is a routine process, applying to all international arrivals, including the minister, unless the passenger is the President of Nigeria. The President, the Vice President and passengers aboard planes on the Presidential air fleet use the Presidential Wing of the airport.

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APF TASK ELECTORATE AGAINST FAKE PROMISES

AHEAD of 2019 general elections, a group, Advance Progressive Forum (APF), on Tuesday called on Nigerian electorate to be watchful as they prepare to cast their votes for their preferred candidates in the year’s presidential poll and not be deceived by promises from candidates of the various political parties.

Chairman of APF, Otunba Joseph Onasanya, made the call while speaking with journalists in Lagos, urging the electorate to be sure that whoever they cast their votes for would be somebody who would meet their desire for a better life.

“Many of the party candidates are after their own good and seeking opportunity to exploit the people, but the people have a duty whether to allow themselves to be exploited or they will take advantage of the time to seek to know who will be better for them and give them a better future,” Onasanya said.

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APF WORD FOR THOUGHT

"It is in the nature of politician to change camp. As a chameleon changes, its skin to march the colour of its environment. Politician will always be politician, those who know will say by that, they are saying that many politician have no scruples. They do not stand for something rather they stand for everything. A politician who do not stand for something, we are told will stand for nothing"

"The critics will say no, they beg to disagree with the view that our politician do not stand for something. They stand for something if for nothing else, they stand for their own personal interest. They stand for something by reaping where they did not sow. They stand for something by appropriating money for their own comfort while the people they represent live in abject poverty. They stand for something by legislating laws. If these are not issues, a Politician should stand for "I wonder what is it worthy for..."

THE FACE OF CHANGE ?

The last three and a half years of the regime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the centre have been short of expectations, to say the least. With its brutish approach to politics, the gradual failure of other sectors of the system has become impossible.

Apart from a few ministries – not more than two or three – the record of failure of the Muhammadu Buhari government is already public knowledge, no matter how hard its spin doctors try to undo these palpable public records.

Take away the ministries of Transportation and that of Power, Works and Housing – the government of Buhari is generally believed to have failed to live up to billings and rather than sit up to review its inadequacies with a view to fixing them, it has descended further into mediocrity.

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CAN NIGERIA BE SAVED?

One in every six Africans is a Nigerian and 10 per cent of all black people on earth are Nigerians. By 2050, Nigeria will become the third largest nation on earth and 67 per cent of the population will be below 30 years of age. Nigeria has been at the precipice many times, but always seems to find its way back. Today, Nigeria is back at the brink again, but will this time be different? We think so, and in July 2017, we created the G57 to emphasise the opportunities and minimise the risks in a nonpartisan manner.

The G57 is a nonpartisan group of 57 successful Nigerian professionals from every corner of Nigeria and around the globe. The combination of democracy and a productive economy is what Nigeria needs to stabilise and to lead African stability and growth into the future. To operationalise this thinking, the G57 has mobilised a national grassroots citizen engagement organ which presently has one thousand members and 250,000 followers. This organ, branded “PUP Culture,” is based on the fundamental building blocks of prosperity, unity, and peace, which have been the enduring cultural values in every Nigerian tribe.

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