Poor leadership cause of Nigeria’s myriad of problems – Ebonyi PDP chair

The chairman of the Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Onyekachi Nwebonyi has said that the wanton killings of Nigerians in different parts of the country, especially in the North East, is a fallout of the inability of Nigerian leaders to provide quality leadership and direction in the affairs of the country.

Nwebonyi who stated this in Abakaliki while accessing situation of affairs of the country, called on youths to set aside religious and ethnic sentiments and work harmoniously towards salvaging the country from perdition.

According to him, it is only those who have future that can set the country’s future positively.

He said: “Let us take on this clamour and champion this course from our respective political parties. Our political leanings are different but our aspirations should be the same. And, that is to salvage Nigeria that is already tethering on the brink of collapse.

“Nigerian youths have to channel their energy, creativity, and aspirations unto political activism and become political leaders that would change the ugly story of this country. The time to act is now in other to take over the presidency in 2023.

“The blood of countless Nigerians who are being slaughtered wantonly by marauding herdsmen and Islamic extremists, as a result of our leaders’ ineptitude are crying from the graves. We don’t have to wait any longer.

“We the youths have to put aside religious and ethnic sentiments and work harmoniously to salvage Nigeria that is already headed to perdition. It is only those who have future that can set the country’s future positively.

“Let us take on this clamour and champion this course from our respective political parties. Our political leanings are different, but our aspirations should be the same. And, that is to salvage Nigeria that is already tethering on the brink of collapse.

“I once again call on the Nigerian youths to wake up now and take their collective fate in their hands. We should see to it that only youthful persons with reputable pedigree that emerge candidates of our political parties for the 2023 presidential election. And, putting aside every differences; political, ethnic, and religious, let us vote credibility in the 2023 presidential election.

“As Chinua Achebe puts it, ‘the trouble with Nigeria is leadership’. A country that is endowed with enormous natural and mineral resources, as well as wonderful people, has been groping aimlessly, as in darkness, to come out of unspeakable economic woes. Nigeria is a dependent country, which has almost nothing to contribute to global economy. Even oil, which the country is blessed with the best type, cannot be refined in the country.

“Obviously, what Nigeria lack is right leadership and nothing more. It only needs to harness its resources through leadership, and the Nigerian Youths have that role to play. Leadership failure has become most manifest in the country through insecurity, corruption, and dearth of Infrastructure. This is crystal clear.

“What is required by the youths to save the country now is ethical and attitudinal revolution. They should see themselves as a third force and champion revolutionary agenda that will wreck the hold of power by a retrospective population,” he said.