2023: I Have Real Time Experience in Resolving Wars, Says Fayemi

Adedayo  Akinwale

Ekiti State Governor and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said he was one of the few Nigerians with real time experience in resolving wars. 

In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja by the spokesman of Dr. Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Femi Ige, said the governor stated this on Thursday in Kaduna, as part of his ongoing consultation to seek the support of delegates ahead of the presidential primary of the APC.

To this end, Fayemi promised to bring to bear all the wealth of experience garnered while resolving internecine wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda and Sri Lanka towards the resolution of insurgency and banditry in the country.

Fayemi said, “I’m one of the few Nigerians with real time experience in resolving wars. I consulted for Nigeria under President Olusegun Obasanjo, I was involved in the resolution of the wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda and bringing the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka to the negotiation table.

“Besides that real time experience in war resolution, I have a Doctorate Degree in War Studies. If I can bring peace to other lands, why not my own country.

“Nigeria is facing a war situation that we can’t afford to put a neophyte in power, the repercussion is too ghastly to contemplate.”

The presidential hopeful assured that he would spare no effort to ensure that the country wins the fight that must be fought with tenacity against insecurity, banditry, unemployment, poverty, inequality, threats of national disintegration, and lawlessness. 

Against this background, Fayemi noted that working with other key leaders of the party, a detailed blueprint that has been developed with corresponding timelines of implementation would be employed to guide the speedy and accelerated retooling of key institutions of state, including the armed forces, the police service and the civil service.

He added that in addition to the problem of insecurity are adverse domestic pressures and external shocks on the economy that have affected the nation’s effort  to dent unemployment and overcome some of its deleterious effects on the populace, especially the teeming population of young people. 

‘’I am especially committed to the facilitation of wealth and employment creation by and for our people, the expansion of our national social security and skills acquisition policies to enhance human development, the wholesale revamp of our national educational system to ensure it is fit for purpose, and the intensive fostering of measures aimed at expanding inclusivity for those who are objectively marginalised in the polity,” Fayemi assured.

“In this regard, we owe it to ourselves and our people to ensure that our women, the youth, and people living with disability who represent some of our greatest national assets are judiciously developed and deployed for the good of our country,” Fayemi stated.