‘I trust God that the right leadership will come’ that will fix Nigeria’s education sector —Bakare

Founder and Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare has harped on the need to immediately revamp the educational sector in Nigeria in order to churn out the right quality of graduates every year.

Bakare, of whom a video recently resurfaced and went viral in which he said he would become the 16th President of Nigeria after Muhammadu Buhari, disclosed this on Friday on the side-lines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers meetings staged in New York.

Speaking after the meeting, Bakare said the current system in Nigeria had huge implications on the economic development and life outcomes of young people, noting that education should be a priority of every government in order to address such challenges and reverse the ugly trend.

He said, “In the past when you are coming out from the university, there are regular jobs, car loan and other facilities that will keep you in the country.

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“Right now, because of the lack of jobs, job creation has become a major issue. Our young people are now taking to crime and are benefiting from proceeds of crime and kidnapping.

“But with the right policy in place, we can inject new ideas that will create jobs for our people.

“I trust God that the right leadership will come. I call them a new breed without greed that will consider others and begin to create opportunities for us within our countries.

“About 50 per cent of our youth are not employed and 25 per cent of them are not employable. So, there is something fundamentally wrong with our education system that is producing semi-illiterates,” Bakare added.

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