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Nigerian youths brought the country to its current state – Pastor Tunde Bakare

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Serving Overseer of The Citadel World Neighborhood Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has blamed the nation’s current challenges on Nigerian youths.

Bakare who spoke on the maiden version of The Dialog Africa Sequence organized by the Legacy Youth Fellowship in Lagos on Saturday Might 22, recalled how a 31-year-old Head of State destroyed the inspiration of federalism and made Nigeria a unitary system.

The cleric who suggested the current crop of youths to be decided and centered with real intention of creating the Nigeria of founding fathers a actuality, concluded by stating that Nigeria was dropped at its present state, not essentially by gerontocrats, however by principally younger Nigerians, a few of whom had been actively concerned in governance from their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.

He mentioned;

“There isn’t any gainsaying the truth that the current situation of our nation is a paradox of gargantuan proportions. Now we have the eighth largest proportion of arable land on this planet with about 34 million hectares of land obtainable for agriculture, but we’re 98th out of 107 international locations on the World Starvation Index.




“Now we have the eleventh largest confirmed oil reserves on this planet and, at a degree, Nigeria was the world’s sixth largest oil producer, but we depend on imported refined petroleum merchandise as our home refineries proceed to aim to fly with one wing. Over 34 commercially viable strong minerals deposits, with every state of the federation endowed with numerous mineral assets; but, each month, the 36 states of the federation go to Abuja to obtain “pocket cash,” technically often known as allocations from the federation account, with out which they can not survive. We’re probably the most non secular international locations on this planet, but we’re among the many frontrunners in unfavorable indices, from the Corruption Perceptions Index to the Distress Index.

“Younger Nigerians are asking why a rustic so wealthy wears the inglorious badge of the poverty capital of the world. Consequently, now we have seen decided younger Nigerians fired up and ready to take their country again from the so-called gerontocrats.

“Our present Youth have to be reminded that on Might 24, 1966, a 31-year-old Head of State destroyed the inspiration of federalism and made Nigeria a unitary system and likewise in mid-1970’s some younger and zealous military generals of their 30’s overthrew the federal government of their bid to sanitize the system however ended up destroying it amongst different incident.

“Younger Nigerian patriots, you’ll be able to see from this brief recourse to history that Nigeria was dropped at its present state, not essentially by gerontocrats, however by principally younger Nigerians, a few of whom had been actively concerned in governance from their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, and a few of whom are related even now. It’s why I say that youth, in a way, introduced us right here.”