Bishop Kukah said this while delivering a lecture -‘Education and
Leadership Recruitment for a Plural Society: A Case for Nigeria’- during
the 3rd Convocation Ceremony of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti
today October 20th
“Fighting corruption alone may not guarantee us a stable nation.
We must include the culture of entrenchment and protection of social
justice and the rule of law to be part of our national live. So, Nigeria
should not put all their hopes in Buhari. They should not think that
once Buhari has started fighting corruption the entire system will be
sanitized and everything will work for good or change. A distorted
society cannot expect the reward of a decent society. Happily for us in
Nigeria, we are turning a new page. We must therefore not be seduced
into thinking that we should hand over our hope, our dream and our
aspiration to President Buhari and go to sleep. Corruption is a symptom
of the disease of the distortion of our nationhood. We may have a
transparent election but the most perfect electoral outcome does not
translate to the right result. When people receive the licence to
govern, what does it mean to them and what do they do with it? We must
acknowledge the opportunity of the concession of defeat by (former)
President Jonathan, we need institutions that can save voters from the
excesses of the Nigerian politicians. As a country, we must have
succession plan, we must have capacity for succession and the
institutional capacity to recruit the future leaders and we must create
opportunities for young Nigerians to rise to the highest office in the
land.”he said
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