Youths can bring about the true change Nigeria needs - Mimiko
- A past governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, says the true change that would transform the country could only be achieved through the youths
- He discloses that he left the PDP out of the conviction to join forces with a political ideology relevant to the need of the present day Nigeria
- The Justice Must Prevail Party says it plans to take over the nation’s leadership in the 2019 general elections
A past governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, has urged Nigerian youths to gear up and take over leadership of the country.
Daily Trust reports that Mimiko made the call when addressing a gathering organised to welcome him back to the Labour Party (LP) in Ondo town on Thursday, June 14.
Speaking at his declaration which held at the Civic Centre, Mimiko said the true change that would transform the country could only be achieved through the youths.
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Premium Times reports that the former governor disclosed that he left the PDP out of the conviction to join forces with a political ideology relevant to the need of the present day Nigeria.
“LP, and its few ideological soul mates among the legion of parties in the country today, provide the requisite platform for this type of deep ideological introspection,” he said.
“Without doubt, this social democratic mantra, which LP and its soul mates represent, remains the best possible outlet for leading Nigeria into a new era of progressive governance.
"We have also come with the conviction, consequent upon several years of practical involvement in the nation’s political process, that the need for ideologically focused political engagement is now more pressing than ever before.
“Virtually all the existing political parties in Nigeria today belong to the right of the centre, ensconced as it were in a neo-liberal mental construct, the name or mantra they choose to enrobe themselves in, notwithstanding.
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“This is evident not in terms of the pretentious claims they make to ideological purity, but in the way and manner they have used power; including the extent to which they have mainstreamed the interest and welfare of the weak and poor in our society."
Meanwhile, a head of the 2019 general elections, national leaders of the Justice Must Prevail Party (JMPP) have said they are in a real battle to dislodge President Muhammadu Buhari and take over the nation’s leadership.
Daily Trust reports that the leaders of the party took oath of office barefooted at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, June 14.
After addressing newsmen on the activities of the party, the national chairman of the party, Dr. Olusegun Ijagbemi, led other party leaders outside the hall where he first removed his shoes and took the oath.
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