PANELISTS IN THE STUDIO: Ms Toyosi Akererele Managing Partner of RISE networks
Mr Tope Falade (Youth Advocate)
Mr Adekunle Sanusi.
Presidential Interactive Session
Program organised by Toyosi Akerele, Managing Partner of RISE Networks
Aired on the Channels Television Lagos.
Anchored by: Chinedu Chidi
In the studio today is the presidential candidate for the Liberal Democratic party of Nigeria, Dr Chris Nwokobia.
Dr Chris Nwokobia: Historically the most vibrant age is the age of the youth, We live in a highly progressive world where the challenges of youths are more significant than adults, and that is why I salute what you are doing, that is why I am on, being the youngest presidential candidate in the camp, and the first person to start on this. Some few days ago I was forty years old, and that is our basic constitutional will for contesting for the presidency. I want that we should see the age of youth as an age of change. We have had 50 years of waste, in democracy we've had 12 years of failed promises, and so I have reasons to be challenged.
More than ever before, we need a new era, a new day, a new dispensation and a new hope. I am passionate about a new Nigeria, I am passionate about a new dawn, I am passionate about a new republic, and that is why I am contesting.
Chidi: Are you campaigning at all?
I have volunteers across the country, I have dedicated Nigerians across the country, who are willing and ready to volunteer service across the 120,000 polling centres without being paid a dime.
What are some of the things you noticed in the Nigerian society and how do you think you will make a change?
About solution to Nigeria's problem, don't you think you should have started from a low process rather than the presidency?
The challenges of the highly productive is for change to come from the front. If we begin to think of sparking off a change from the minute level, we may never get to achieve anything.
The straggliest presidency in the world is our presidency, that's why we need a man who really cares about the country, we need a man who is patriotic, and that is what I believe I represent and also the challenges that has occupied and optimized my candidacy.
Countries like the Benin republic and Ghana have conquered power problems, but we still have epileptic power problem in Nigeria.
I am saying if am voted in as the president in the 2011 general elections, that I will supply and provide power in 12 months
Toyosi Akerele: Politicians have made promises and broken promises. Will you like to share the strategy actualizing the plan if voted in as the president in the 2011 elections?
Based on assumption that you already know is wrong with our examination bodies like WAEC, NECO, JAMB. Why is the division in what the schools feed the students and what is being released as results?
The truth is that we don't need examination bodies like JAMB and Nigerians know that. We don't need an examination body to sell 2 million forms for spaces that can only accommodate 250,000 students. The solution to the problem in this area is to set curricular for these schools and allow them to set entrance examination themselves, rather than taxing people to pay and pass examinations and at the end of the day not getting admitted.
If you should take a look at the corruption from 1999 to date, are we making progress or is it a case of retrogression. What is your opinion?
The fight against corruption has been dramatic, it has move from reality and uprightness for example, in the era of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo. The anti corruption agency were against those that were perceived as the enemy of president while those that were the friend of the president had some kind of shield that protected them.
In my regime, the fight against corruption is going to be intensive like it is being practiced in the U.S and Canada. For example if a man becomes a Councillor, a local government chairman or a governor with just 2 cars in his garage, and after four years he owns 13 cars then he must be able to give an account of those cars.
What are your plans for job creation?
About 5,000 companies has folded up in 2 years because of lack of power in the country. So when power is restored we will have 5,000 companies back on track. If 5,000 companies come back into production in Nigeria we will have nothing less than 5 million jobs.
What we need in Nigeria is to restore the energy sector first. Our three points of agenda goes in line with this vision. It is called the 3Es. Energy, Education and Employment/Empowerment.
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