Okunnu-Lamidi, 38 Yr Old Youth Dev. Advocate Declares Presidential Ambition

Moses Ofodeme

Mrs. Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi, has indicated interest in running the presidential race during the 2023 Presidential election.

Okunnu-Lamidi, a 38-year-old media entrepreneur and youth development advocate,declared her intention in Lagos on Monday, January 3, 2022.

She is the Founder of Slice Media Solutions and daughter of Lateef Femi Okunnu (SAN); a former Federal Commissioner of Works & Housing.

She said is concerned about unemployment rate in Nigeria; as well as the poor prospects facing the youth; even as she disclosed that she has become the arrowhead for the intervention of her generation’s interests across the nation for politics and good governance.

She is motivated and desirous of making Nigeria work for its diverse populace; while also harnessing the undoubted power of its teeming youths to unleash the country’s latent potential as a force to be reckoned with globally.

“I seek to change the direction of our country; because time and chance will happen to all of us and the time for action is today.

“We need a better class, a better crop of leaders that are selfless, disciplined, and bound with integrity, and above all; who love the country and are invested in her future.

“I am here to activate all people, the old, the poor, the rich; to unite around a common ideal on the basis of a consensus about a superior national development agenda,” she said.

Okunnu-Lamidi revealed that youths under the age of 30 have borne the most impact of bad governance; adding that the youth account for 13.9 million of the unemployment figures which stood at 21.7 million in the second quarter of 2020.

She also noted that life expectancy at birth in Nigeria, which stood at 60.87 years in 2021; is one of the lowest in Africa and in the world; while noting that the infant mortality rate hovers at 57.701 deaths per 1000 live births.

The aspirant also lamented the rate of poverty, which has seen an estimated 40.1 per cent of the population currently living below the poverty line; as well as the rising rate of out-of-school children in Nigeria.