The Former Governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke has revealed his plans to run for the seat of President come 2019.
The Peoples Democratic Party member who said this during an interview he granted to Deutsche Welle Africa, gave a little insight on what he plans to do, and how he thinks the problems confronting Nigerians would be defeated.
While speaking, the 56-year-old who recently gave his two daughters hands in marriage, said what he sees about the Nigeria of today is a failure of leadership in every expects. He said:
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.
He also touched on the educational system and how he feels things could work. He said
“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,