Barrister Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) has stated that most politicians have ideological problems, thus leading to barrages of criticism of government policies without viable alternatives.
Speaking at Kogi East Youth Political Roundtable Summit in Abuja Saturday, he explained that unfortunately, the youth who are drivers of political economy have nothing to benefit from them.
He lampooned political leaders who advertised their achievements, saying that provisions of infrastructure was a matter of right of the electorates.
“Those who advertise their achievements are failures.”
“Youth lacks viable ideas of what to do with themselves and as a result, they settle for all sorts of criminality including kidnappings and abductions.”
Okutepa charged Kogi Youth to rise to the challenge of remedying political space by repacking themselves, adding that it was not about APC or PDP, but about individual capacity.
“For now, there is no difference between the PDP and APC, the only difference was the degree of who gets what, while the electorate suffer”, he said.
He added that the underdeveloped Kogi state as it were, was waiting for intervention of youth, noting that it took a courageous person to rescue the land.
“Go back home, repackage yourself for relevance. Youth in Kogi East now have involved themselves in kidnapping to make money.”
“If you want Kogi East to develop, go back home and demobolise those given to begging and call on them to be productive.”
“Some of you are lawyers, some of you are medical. Doctors and journalists and have left your profession to join murky waters of politics, he maintained. ”
