Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has faulted
the performance of President Jonathan and the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP), saying the condition in which
Nigerians find themselves at the moment, is worse than it
was four years ago when the president assumed office.
Speaking on Thursday, August 14 in Abuja during a
lecture on ‘The challenge of Democratic Governance’ as
part of activities to mark the 50th birthday celebration of a
former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva,
Gov.
Fashola said Nigerians used to think that national
development was inhibited in the country because there’s
never been a university graduate as president of the
country.
He said the myth of graduate has now been exploded as
the condition of Nigerians is worse off, even with two
graduates as leaders of the country, Punch reports.
Fashola said: “Nigerians would agree that there is the need
for more attributes that cannot be found in a school.
So there is more to leadership than a university degree and
educational qualification.
There is character, vision, courage, empathy, compassion
and many more attributes that you simply will not find in a
classroom or school.
They are in homes, in communities and also in the value
system of society.”
He also berated Jonathan for inviting parents of abducted
Chibok schoolgirls to the Presidential Villa for the
purpose of sympathising with them, describing the
President’s attitude as ‘truly strange and truly unAfrican’.
He then went on to accuse Jonathan’s administration of
perpetually lying to the people of Nigeria on sensitive
national issues such as the abduction of over 200 Chibok
girls, their whereabouts and the rumour of trying to give
money to their bereaved parents.
Fashola therefore implored politicians to make politics
interesting and worth being participated in by the
professional elite.
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