By GBENGA OLARINOYE

…as Aregbesola, others extol Ola Oni’s virtues

OSOGBO –  National Chairman, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, and former Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, yesterday, in Osogbo, blamed Nigerian leaders for the current problems in the country, saying the problems would persist unless the Federal Government provided permanent solution to unemployment.

The former governor, who identified unemployment as the major cause of the country’s crisis, maintained that “there may not be peace in Nigeria unless the government provides solution to the high level of unemployment in the country. This is the singular solution to our many problems.”

Musa, while speaking at the inauguration of the Comrade Ola Oni Centre for Social Research in Osogbo, noted that the high population of Nigeria would make it impossible for any nation of the world to intervene in the current challenges facing the country.

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, who was special guest at the event, said the government needed to proffer permanent solution to all the problems confronting the country, for Nigeria to regain its glory before the international community.

While extolling the virtues of the late Oni, Aregbesola described him as a socialist who abandoned his wealth to fight for the interest of the masses till he died.

Meantime, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Osun State has declared that the celebration of democracy in the country on May 29 every year is a betrayal of democracy, saying that the day does not represent democracy in the country.

In a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, therefore, called on Nigerians to register May 29, 1999 in their consciousness as a day of sober contemplation and not democracy day, even as he advised Nigerians to earnestly pray to God for deliverance from the slavery of perverted democracy which he said was imposed on them by the military.

According to him “May 29 is a day that Nigerians should be sad about. Not much good has come from the thought of that day in our history, and until we dismantle everything evil which that day represents, we may fail completely as a state, a people and a geographical expression.”

-Vanguard

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