Ex-Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bisi Akande on Monday said it was difficult to get sincere and good future leaders among today’s youths because of their debased background.
Akande spoke in his Ila country-home at a meeting with Pan Yoruba group, the Yoruba Patriotic Movement.
Speaking on the degeneration of ‘core value’ in Nigeria, particularly in Yorubaland, Akande said the core value system is no more in place.
He mainatained that there exist a mixture of the negative and positive tendencies among the youths, adding that negative tendencies are more than the positive ones, the development that makes it difficult to get sincere and good future leaders in the present society.
On the South-West agenda, Akande stated that the core value system must be reintroduced and there was a need to have a programme to integrate the youths into the system, adding that there was need for education advancement in the region.
Expressing worries over what he described as the “pervasion of military mentality in the Nigerian political system”, Akande said the operators of political system and the Nigerian political parties are still operating with the military mentality of ‘governance with impunity”.
According to him, the military orientation of controlling the political parties after leaving power is still being practice by the democratic government in the country, whereas it is the people of like minds who ought to get together, form their party and run it the way they deem fit.
He noted that when the military left government, its agenda of controlling the political parties was achieved through various electoral regulations since most political operators learnt under the military.
Akande insisted that political parties should be independent of government legislation, arguing that it is political and not government structure.
The military, according to Akande, introduced governance with impunity into the government and the political parties.
He lamented that majority of the current political party leaders grew or learn politics under the military arrangement, saying that those who knew what the military did have left the shore of political leadership.
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo
