Nigerians Deserve A Better Leader - Mike Awoyinfa

Celebrated journalist and Publisher of Entertainment Express Newspaper, Mr. Mike Awoyinfa, yesterday lamented the worsening security situation in the country.

Awoyinfa believes that for Nigeria to move out of its present situation, a good leader must be enthroned.

The editor of the now rested Weekend Concord made these observations in Lagos during the commemoration ceremony of Simeon Olaosebikan Apata, founder of Apata Memorial Nursery, Primary and High School, Isolo, who was murdered by some yet-to-be-identified on January 8, 1995.

The ace human-interest journalist, who was the guest speaker at the event, blasted the government over the incessant killings in the country and the failure of the law enforcement agencies to bring the culprits to book.

“You don’t know how lucky you are to be alive in this New Year. This is a very dangerous country. This is a very, very difficult country, a country where you are on your own. This is a country where people kill others and they go scot-free,” he said.

The writer who is yet to recover from the shock of the demise of his colleague and business partner, Dimgba Igwe, who was killed down by a hit-and-run driver on September 6, 2014 and the death of celebrated journalist, Dele Giwa through a letter bomb, said that the failure of the police to bring those behind the dastard acts to justice was unfair.

He described September 6, 2014 as the darkest day of his life. Aside the shock of Igwe’s death, he said the tragic incident also sapped his zeal of jogging to Apata Junction in Okota, which he and the deceased routinely did together during his lifetime.

Awoyinfa called for divine intervention to pull the nation back from the brink. He said the country needed a leader with integrity, who could address the several challenges facing the nation.

“We pray that God will give us a leader that Nigeria deserves. I am not a politician. I am only a Nigerian and I wish Nigeria the best. This is a very dangerous time in the country,” he said.