Presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria ( ACPN ), Prof Obiageli Ezekwesili on Thursday said she is eminently qualified to lead Nigeria to the Promised Land.
She lamented Nigeria has over the years lack quality leadership that can take the country to where it ought to be in the comity of nations.
Addressing a group of artisans, youths, students, people with disabilities and some market women at popular Arewa House, Kaduna, the former Education Minister said she was the only candidate with the capacity and competency to deliver the country from its complex problems.
She said: “We have lacked quality leadership in Nigeria. It doesn’t matter that all those that have governed us are men. It doesn’t make any difference in quality of life of Nigerian persons.
“I am that candidate with competence and capacity to solve the complex problems that seem to have eluded us for so long.
“We cannot afford to have many more millions of Nigerians to join more than 87 million that are already poor.
“Therefore, anyone who is thinking of me being a woman has not come in term with other Nigerians I have interacted with in the course of our campaign. They have always saying Oby is the candidate we can trust.”
She added: “When you are tired of mediocrity, the only person you can think of is Oby Ezekwesili, who is offering herself to lead.
“The reason is simple. I have always been known in this society as one who has a strong voice for the fact that Nigeria can be better than it is now.
“Nigeria has no reason to be a failure and that is why I am running in this election.”
Asked if she was not happy with the current government because she was not given political appointment, she said: “I rejected to be a minister many times since I was a minister in this country. I don’t need to be a minister.
“What I need is that this society must be mobilised immediately to see how we can come out of the whole failure and incompetence they have thrown us into.”
