The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, has admitted that Nigerian politicians, including himself, take away maintain failed the province as well as its younger generation.
The senator stated this spell speaking at The Osasu Show Symposium inwards Abuja inwards Friday.
Speaking equally ane of the panelists at the symposium themed “The novel economic scheme as well as its impact on less priviledge citizens”, Melaye said: “When y'all speak the truth, y'all die, when y'all lie, y'all die; then it is amend to speak the truth as well as die. I may audio real unpopular only I volition speak the truth. Apart from militocracy, politics is responsible for poverty as well as hunger inwards Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, nosotros the leaders, myself inclusive, take away maintain failed this patch as well as take away maintain failed the younger generation, myself inclusive. The argue why nosotros are where nosotros are today is because at that topographic point is a disconnect betwixt leadership as well as followership.
“As I speak to you, the work why nosotros are where nosotros are is because of trust. There is no trust betwixt the governed as well as those governing.
“Once at that topographic point is no trust betwixt the followership as well as the leadership, it volition definitely take away maintain a negative concomitant trial on the economy, as well as every other facet of our national life.”
“Hunger as well as poverty take away maintain no political party, hunger as well as poverty take away maintain no religion. To take away maintain brought people to speak over on the draw of piece of work of APC or PDP is non correct, because the piteous PDP human being as well as the piteous APC human being all larn to the same market.
“What nosotros should laid upward is democracy; Democracy is regime of the people, past times the people as well as for the people. What nosotros take away maintain is greediocracy; regime of the greedy past times the greedy, for the greedy.
“We the leaders desire to win elections at all cost, then nosotros pass coin to win elections. The followership equally good is greedy, they take away maintain coin to vote. So, caput or tail, at that topographic point is a postulate for attitudinal alter as well as this is affecting everything.”
“Today, nosotros are talking nearly recovery of our economy, nosotros are talking nearly poverty as well as how to manage it. The exclusively agency to manage poverty is for nosotros leaders to construct trust alongside the people.”