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2023: Power Must Shift To The South – Gov. Akeredolu
- Akeredolu said Nigeria cannot survive the way things were going and that the nation is losing its identity
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has said the Southern part of the country must produce the next president.
He said this while delivering the 45th convocation lecture of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Saturday.
Akeredolu, who is an alumnus of the university, delivered the convocation lecture with the theme, “When is a Nation? Exploring the Social-Political Crises in Post Independence Nigeria”.
Akeredolu said Nigeria cannot survive the way things were going and that the nation is losing its identity.
He, however, said that the nation has the capacity to overcome its challenges, saying lack of trust and credibility deficiency is the bane of Nigeria’s development.
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He said “No nation survives on hand-outs from other climes. Loss of identity is too big a pride to pay for the new social order. Any society which suffers such misfortune can only develop to the extent to which the logic of domination and dependence permits. All the adventure in constitutional administration of the colonial territory failed to take into account the peculiarities of the people who had been forced to live together under one central administration for the first time. I pray we are not doomed.”
President Muhammadu Buhari, who was represented at the the convocation by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, said OAU has achieved many feats.
During the convocation, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Babatunde Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, was conferred with Honorary Doctor of Letters while Founder of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State and Chairman, Elizade Group of Companies, Chief Michael Ade Ojo, was conferred with Honorary Doctor of Business Administration.
Other dignitaries at the event include the Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Etsu Nupe and Chancellor of the university, Alhaji Yahata Abubakar, and the Pro-Chancellor, Owelle Oscar Udoji.
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