2023: Ekiti Monarch Speaks On N100m Presidential Form, Lambasts FG

The Ogoga of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Adejimi Adu-Alagbado, has condemned the Federal government for allowing presidential aspirants to spend such huge amounts on purchasing the APC nomination form considering the state of the nation’s economy.

While speaking at the Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti (BOUESTl), the monarch stated that such a huge amount of money used in purchasing the nomination form could be invested into insecurity and revamping the near-collapse education sector in Nigeria.

He stated that it was quite ludicrous that some people could openly display such an amount of wealth in a country labelled for its obscene state of poverty.

Ogoga said “Our politicians are buying nomination forms to contest at very high prices and the universities are not well funded, while researches are not being carried out. I believe this is bad and unfair.

“These monies can be used to adequately fund our universities, particularly giving our youth employment through research and innovation. Even, the security crises that we have today were because of our poor value system. We have to change our attitude.

“We must continue to say the truth because we will account for all our deeds. I am challenging this university to be different. We want to be seeing its impacts on this community in terms of development within the next 10 years.

“We can’t continue to buy things from foreign countries and expect our youth to get jobs. That is the reason why our university must do research, bring out innovations and give to local industries to make or manufacture their products”