The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February General Elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said leadership in the country is degenerating.
Obi stated this on Sunday while addressing about 2,000 youths during the closing session of the 2019 Boot Camp, at the Government Technical Secondary School, Awka, Anambra State.
He noted that good leadership was very important to the development and growth of every society.
Obi lamented what he called “progressive degeneration of leadership in Nigeria” saying it had resulted in the backwardness the country had been consistently witnessing.
He charged the youth to be agents of positive change in society.
Recalling how some youths invented the Whatsapp, Google, Facebook and other internet platform, Obi said they did so in their primes.
He appealed to Nigerian youths to look inward and take every bit of their training, including the experience at Boot Camp, seriously.
He enjoined the youth to look up to people like international writer, Chimamada Adichie, as models.
Obi said, “They may not have money, but they have things that are priceless, far more valuable than money.
“Those that changed the world were like you, ordinary people. The founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, was picked in motherless babies’ home; Gucci used to be a hotel porter at Ritz Hotel, in France. You should strive to understand the background of successes and know factors that worked for them.”