Question 13 Of 23 Presiding Questions For 2023 Presidential Quest: Their Ambitions Versus Our Convictions By Dr Adetolu Ademujimi

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SECTION C: RECOVERY OF SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE

Clearly, the anticipated year 2023 renewal of social contract at the polls is way beyond the mere award of infrastructure contracts. Nigerians’ candid aspirations that override the 2023 Presidential candidates’ ambitions include the recovery of elements of our social architecture that have been eroded. Apart from palpable insecurity, other fundamentals of our unaddressed social maladies that are as important as provision of physical infrastructure are;
• Public corruption
• Population explosion
• Unemployment
• Inter-religious competition, suppression and disharmony
• Out-of-school children
• Stomach infrastructure
• Cybercrimes/Internet fraud
• Money-seeking ritual killings
• Olosho syndrome (rising incidence of teenagers-turned-commercial sex workers)
• Merry-making extremism that puts the average Nigerian under undue socioeconomic pressure (aso ebi pressure for parties, Money-spraying & naira-mutilating culture of merry-making, Petrol-in-containers souvenir syndromes at social functions etc.)
• Public indiscipline (public use of marijuana, streets-littering, anti-queue attitudes/refusal to take turns, road side urination etc.)
Do you agree that these social issues constitute major threats to our nation and require as much attention as the award of contracts for physical infrastructure would receive from the Office of Nigeria’s incoming President in 2023?
a. I strongly agree
b. I agree
c. I disagree
d. I strongly disagree

Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi is a Medical Doctor, Author, Reformer, Coach, Public Policy expert and social entrepreneur, who wrote in from Akure in Nigeria. Email: ademujimi@yahoo.co.uk; Twitter: @toluademujimi; Instagram: @adetoluademujimi; Linkedin: @adetolu ademujimi