I Have Given Up Hope On Present Generation Of Politicians- Oluwole Rotimi

Erstwhile Governor of the old Western Region, Brigadier General Oluwole Rotimi (retd.),has said that he had given up hope on the present generation of political leaders in the country in view of their selfish approach to governance.

Rotimi, who was the Chairman at the 21st Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun Lecture, held at the Emeritus Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, University College Hospital, Ibadan, also expressed worries about the attitude of the citizens to information from those who should know.

He said: “Nigeria is not short of people who will diagnose the causes of our problems. It is in finding solutions that we are lost.

“It is sad that rather than stick to the message, people would rather take on the messenger. When certain messages are passed to Nigerians we criticise the messenger; we don’t give thought to the message.

“For me, there is no hope in the present generation of political leaders. There is a Yoruba proverb which says that a dog that would get missing would not heed the call of the hunter.

“A word is sufficient for the wise. In this country, I want to join others in re-emphasising, that we need to reintroduce the teaching of history and civic education.”

According to Maj. Gen. Akintunde Akinkunmi (retd.),in his lecture, said that greed and corruption were intertwined, and explained that the former (greed), gave birth to the latter.