Opara UgonnaA youth development advocate, Mrs Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi (KOL) has announced intention to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
The daughter of Femi Okunnu (SAN), an elder statesman and former Federal Commissioner of Works and Housing, is the first female in the current political circle, to announce bid to lead the country.
Yesterday, she announced in Lagos that it was high time the youths in Nigeria took over the reins of power, young Nigerians should come out in their numbers and support their peers to occupy high offices, so more job opportunities can be created in all sectors.
Okunnu-Lamidi insists she isn’t in the race out of vanity or frivolity, but with humility, responsibility, and the burden of a generation to whom the future of the nation belongs.
KOL noted that youths believe in the promise of an equitable and just political union which consolidates the people’s diverse strengths and harnesses untapped resources.
In her words, “Our contribution to Nigeria’s character, stability, peace, and progress deserves recognition and reward.
“The challenge of the presidency is to make Nigeria work for all of its diverse peoples. Nigeria is not working for us,” she lamented.
She reiterated the unemployment rate, lamenting that youths who represent about 70% of the population are worst hit by failed governance.
She decried deficient school curricula, poor teacher orientation, lack of focus on manufacturing, overdependence on the oil sector, low life expectancy and infant mortality rate.
“A president for all Nigerians must have integrity, competence, a 21st-century vision, energy, empathy for all our peoples, the weak, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised”, she added.
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KOL also noted that the poverty rate of an estimated 40 per cent living below the poverty line and the rising number of out-of-school children can only be fixed by a competent president.
Academically wise, Okunnu-Lamidi holds a Business Management (Hons) degree from the University of Bolton, RAK Campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a Master’s degree in Strategic Project Management (SPM) from Heriot-Watt University, Dubai.
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