WHY I WANT TO RULE NIGERIA….BELGIUM BASED NIGERIAN ACTIVIST SPEAKS

Comrade Fidelis Lawrence- Ekoh meeting the press after his declaration

By Fred Iwenjora

Belgium based Nigerian activist Comrade Fidelis Lawrence Ekoh has given reasons why he wants to contest to be Nigerian President come 2019 general elections.

Speaking with ECD recently in Benin after his declaration to a jam packed hall of youths at the Youth House Benin City Edo state capital, Ekoh enumerated all the problems plaguing Nigeria and detailing how he would solve them as soon as he mounts the saddle.

Ekoh who graduated from department of Agric Economics at Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma said ““We have become tired of the hardship bad leadership has brought us over the years. You have become tired of bad economy, you are tired of bad roads, you are tired of poor income, to most Nigerian workers, even your take home pay cannot actually take you home. Healthcare is rather too expensive for the ordinary low income Nigerian. As a result, too many people have died of illnesses that naturally shouldn't be life threatening. 

Continuing, the graduate of Agricultural Economics and founder of  Youths Initiative for capacity Development and Nation Building told enthusiastic youths numbering over five thousand who had earlier stormed the Benin Airport to receive him and drove in a motorcade to the Youth House that “The frustrations being brought on all of us by our leaders is countless. 

“For ages, the leadership of our country is being passed from one old clueless and purposeless politician to the other. They end up in the same routine of "cluelessness" and embezzlement, leaving the rest of the citizenry to continue to wallow in abject want and penury.

Ekoh with National Youth Council Chairman Edo state Comrade Innocent Ajayi before the declaration

“Fellow compatriots” he thundered at the podium “we cannot continue to complain and pray and fast without taking necessary actions. Faith without works they say is death. The time is now for us to wake up from our slumber and act right. We have been for too long bedeviled by too many debilitating economic hardship, to the extent that many cannot boast of eating three square meals a day. 

Our dear country, Africa's giant has been cornered to a sleeping and creeping position. A nation so abundantly blessed by all forms of endowments, from mineral resources in form of Liquid, Solid and Gas to a great tropical climate and arable land that grows almost all types of agricultural produce cannot boast of providing her citizens even the very basics of livelihood.

Ekoh,  sensitizing Nigerians in Europe on his mission

“Our dear youths who have put in all efforts to go through all the rigors of education to attain a higher employability status come out of school, only to be frustrated and disillusioned. The outside world has to place for them; only the children or the relatives of the highly connected get the jobs. To keep hopes alive, many of our youths have decided to take destiny into their own hands by taking some of the greatest risks in the world, crossing the Mediterranean sea in overloaded balloon boats in the quest for greener pasture. In the process, they have died in their thousands in the waters. Along the line, they have been abused, many have been tortured and killed, So many of our young girls raped and impregnated, several have been maimed, and in the recent past, so many of our dear youths have been captured and sold into slavery.

The youths back home who do not see traveling abroad as best option have decided to be anti-social in their activities. Many have resorted to all forms of criminal activities such as armed robbery, kidnapping, ritual killings, internet fraudsters to mention a few in a bid to earn a living.