The Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Monday in Enugu cautioned that Nigeria was sliding into a failed state.
He said this was occasioned by culture of impunity, leading to a situation where 80% of young graduates are unemployed, 40% of non-graduate youths are unemployed and over 125,000 kids die of related ailments.
Osinbajo was in Enugu where he met church leaders, including the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Rt. Rev. Dr. Calistus Onaga, as well as South-East youths.
He alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan seemed unconcerned over the unbridled corruption under his watch, to the extent that “the gross missing funds is equivalent to fix our critical infrastructure like refineries, roads, rail lines, dams and social service architecture of our dear country”.
He maintained that the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari has no agenda to Islamize the country and that the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria defined Nigeria as a secular state.
He added that as a military Head of State, Buhari neither joined OIC nor used draconian powers at his disposal to Islamize the country.
He said, “our programmes are designed to fight corruption, provide maximum security, revamp Enugu Coal so as to create one million jobs for South East youths”.
On his own the Catholic Bishop of Enugu, His Lordship Calistus Onaga pleaded that the managers of the election should allow the peoples’ votes to count.
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