Presidency not for people above 65 years - Presidential aspirant

Date: 2018-05-09

A 2019 presidential aspirant under the banner of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr John Dara, has said that old age among Nigeria's political leaders has been to the nation's disadvantage than blessings.

Speaking with journalists in his Ipe country home, Oyun local government area of Kwara state on Tuesday when he formally joined the party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared his presidential ambition, Mr Dara said that people above 65 years of age should no longer be voted into political office "as old age is part of leadership problems in Nigeria.

Mr Dara, who said that the nation is in a state of emergency and currently suffering from leadership deficit, added that many potential political leaders were being dogged by corruption while others still exhibit past military backgrounds in form of militocracy.

The presidential aspirant, who was a PDP governorship aspirant in Kwara state in 2015 general elections, therefore called for concerted and collaborative efforts among Nigerians in the task of taking the country to next level of development.

He also called on progressive-minded politicians to join the fold of the SDP to bringing the country from the brink of political and socioeconomic collapse.

The presidential aspirant, who said that political parties should serve as a vehicle for social mobilization, be value driven and obey rule of law, regretted that many political parties in the country lacked internal democracy and encouraged selfish interest and anarchy.

He said that the dominant political parties in the country had failed woefully in galvanizing internal democracy, adding that the nation urgently needed an ideological party with a free enterprise without government intervention like the SDP.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Lithium     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Bayo Ajia     S.O. Opowoye     Salihu Yahaya     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Adisa Logun     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Abdulraheem Olesin     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     BECE     Peter Amogbonjaye     Mohammed Ibrahim     Borgu     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Mubarak Oladosu     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Ibrahim Abiodun     Micheal Imoudu     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Abubakar Imam     NURTW     Bolaji Nagode     Royal FM     Olaoye B. Felix     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Elerinjare     Arca Santa     Anilelerin     Albert Ogunsola     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     20 Billion Bond     Ayinde Oyepitan     Cassava Growers\' Association     Yunus Lawal     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Ilorin West     Age AbdulKareem     Abubakar Lah     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Ibrahim Taiwo     Titus Ashaolu     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Al-Hikmah Radio     Roseline Oni Aremu     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Irepodun     Sa\'adu Salau     Garba Idris Ajia     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Ahmed Bayero     Yusuf Aiyedun     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Orire     IsDB     Onikijipa     Lotus Bank     Revenue Court     Khairat Gwadabe     Col. Adedipe     Kayode Bankole     Ibrahim Jawondo     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Allocation     Yomi Adeboye     Amos Justus Sayo     Harmony Holdings     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Aliyu Kora-Sabi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Facebook     Maigidasanma     Ajuloopin     Muhammad Yahya     Adekunle David Dunmade     Ajia-Bako     Laduba     Sabi     Kwara State Polytechnic     KFA     TESCOM     Oyelere Oyinloye     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Olomu     Ganiyu Abolarin     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Raji AbdulRasaq     Basit Olatunji     Ekiti     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Read With Me     Saduki Lafiagi     CT Ayeni     Habeeb Saidu     Mamman Saba Jibril     Danhawa     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Tayo Awodiji     Afolayan     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Shettima     Ajidagba     Senate Presidency     Reuben Paraje     Adegoke Bamidele     Buhari     Arca Santa     Odolaye Aremu     Isiaka Gold     NAWOJ     Charles Ibitoye     Agboola Abdulraheem     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Tunji Moronfoye     Council Of The Wise     Salaudeen Oyewale     Hamza Usman     Erubu     Egbewole     Omotoso     Gabriel Fashanu     Oni Adebayo     Ishola Abdullahi     Emmanuel Bello     Clara Nwachukwu     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Abdulraheem Olesin     Seed Technologies     Bashiru Makama     Alikinla     Otoge     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Alore     Manzuma     First Lady     PPS     Opobiyi     Alagbado     Millennium Development Goals     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Oke-Ode     Congress For National Consensus     Eleyele