According to Senator Nicholas Tofowomo of the Ondo South Senatorial District, goats do not cast ballots, hence Nigerians are to responsible for electing unreliable politicians.
When asked about what is wrong with the current situation of the nation, the federal lawmaker said this in an interview with The PUNCH.
According to Senator Tofowomo, Nigeria’s problems go beyond ineffective leadership.
The senator for Ondo South believes it goes beyond leadership.
“At every opportunity to choose a leader, we choose wrong people. When it comes to the election, it is ‘see and buy’. It is not goats that are casting the votes, it is human beings, it is we”.
“If you do not have money and if you do not have a name, you cannot win anything. The problem of Nigeria, if you look at it, is waxing stronger by the day”, he added.
“There are things that will make a country grow – for example, electricity. You can imagine, in my house here, I have not used government electricity in the last four months and I’m in Akure because the transformers we were using here is about three miles from my house. When I got here, I bought the cables to that transformer and I installed poles as well. How many megawatts do we have in this country? We cannot boast of 4000 megawatts as of today.
There are more than 60,000 megawatts in Egypt. They have more than 58,000 megawatts in South Africa. He concluded, “Why won’t there be development?”
