Bishop Ighele clocks 66, says Nigeria needs a nation builder as leader …Stressing that a failed nation can still rise again

Success Damian:

Bishop Charles Ighele of Holy Spirit Mission, Akuwonjo, Lagos clocked 66 years today, April 8, 2021.

Looking at all the indices that make great nations of the world, which he said Nigeria is currently lacking, Ighele passed a verdict that the only panacea that would liberate Nigeria from the status of a failed nation is when a nation builder is enthroned as leader.

The highly revered Bishop, who still looks under 50, took the position when members of Association of Christian Correspondents of Nigeria (ACCoN) paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Akuwonjo on Wednesday.

Ighele who said that a nation which has failed can rise again stressed that while he wanted President Muhammed Buhari to succeed in office, maintained that at moment the president has reached the peak of his capacity and that he should read and seek ways to increase his capacity, adding that the president should consult other nations on how they extricated their nations from their own problems.

He also disclosed that Nigeria’s political structure has been configured in such a manner that no honest youth or professor can penetrate.

Ighele maintained that there is a class war currently going on in Nigeria. He added that the rich has eaten the poor enough and now it is the turn of the poor to eat the reach. He called for urgent action by the government to jettison divisive polices and body language, so as to ensure peace in the land.

He said social institutions like banks, army, police, others should be made inclusive rather than exclusive, adding that no nation grows by the philosophy of ‘who you know rather than who is qualified.’

While decrying the current state of Nigeria, he proffered solutions to bring the country out of it malady.

Ighele stressed that the nation’s educational standard should be raised in line with that of other nations of the world, adding that education plays important roles in the life of citizens. He advocated that all the out of school children in Nigeria should be found and brought back to school.

“All Primary school drop-outs should be gathered for vocational training, the same with secondary school drop-outs, they should also be assembled and equally given formal and vocational training at their own level.

“University drop-outs and unemployed graduates should also be retrained and employed.” He maintained that if his proffered solutions were given attention that in the next 10 years Nigeria will be stabilizing, and the problem of banditry, kidnapping and other social malaise will begin to ebb.”

On the issue of 2023 Presidential Election, he gave his nod to rotational presidency until such a time, according to him, when the issue of where you come from does not matter again.