Ekiti youths oppose ‘recycling of leaders’

Scores of youths in Ekiti State poured into the streets of Ado-Ekiti, the State capital, to protest what they called “an attempt by older politicians to recycle themselves in power.”

The youths, who staged a rally to drive home their message maintained that the salvation of Ekiti does not lie in the two dominant parties, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

They urged the electorate to reject the PDP and the APC in next year’s governorship poll, saying: “Ekiti has made no remarkable progress when the two parties were elected to run the state.”

The youths  asked the people to reject any candidate presented by Governor Ayodele Fayose for the poll, and advised the populace to block attempt  by former Governors Kayode Fayemi and Segun Oni to return to government  to give way for vibrant and resourceful  people to take over power.

They described the past governors as colossal failure in the delivery of the democratic dividends to the people.

According to them, “the recycling of leadership as the greatest impediment militating against the state in all spheres.

They adopted one of them, Tosin Ajibare, from Ikere-Ekiti in Ekiti South senatorial district, who is to run on the platform of Independent Democrats (ID), as their candidate for the 2018 poll.

Ajibare said: “To underscore the level of failure of these past and present leaders, they advised us to go to school, we did that but nothing happened afterwards. No jobs, no bursary, no scholarship. All they wanted to be using us for is political thuggery.

“We have been helping them to rig elections but we say no to that in 2018. A young man of 35 years can’t feed himself and family in Ekiti.

He added: “Our parents sent us to schools and they are still the ones taking care of us and our children, this is sad.”

“We are assuring you, as youths, we knew where the shoe pinches and we will spare no efforts to turn Ekiti around by ensuring probity, accountability, transparency and justice”, Ajibare promised.

A student leader in Ekiti State University, Valentine Ugochinyere, said students are paying between N100,000 and N150,000 in the institution in a poverty-stricken state like Ekiti.

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