{"id":919664,"date":"2022-01-26T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/think-twice-if-you-want-to-run-nigeria-in-your-70s-we-need-people-with-energy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T10:23:31","slug":"think-twice-if-you-want-to-run-nigeria-in-your-70s-we-need-people-with-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/think-twice-if-you-want-to-run-nigeria-in-your-70s-we-need-people-with-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Twice If You Want To Run Nigeria In Your 70s \u2014 We Need People With Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_812581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812581\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-812581 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/accolades-pour-in-as-governor-makinde-buys-brand-new-official-bicycles-for-oyo-state-civil-servants-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Makinde: Think Twice If You Want To Run Nigeria In Your 70s \u2014 We Need People With Energy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-812581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makinde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only those with the \u201cenergy\u201d to rule Nigeria should be elected in 2023, according to Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo.<\/p>\n<p>Makinde said governance is not a simple assignment, speaking at a retirement thanksgiving service for Samson Ayokunle, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended presidential hopefuls in their seventies to reconsider their decision.<\/p>\n<p>He asked Oyo residents, as well as Nigerians in general, to vote for only those who \u201chave the energy to truly serve the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: INEC Records Surge In Voter Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a lot of elder statesmen who want to run this country at age 75 or 78. I want them to think twice and I am saying to the people of Oyo state and Nigeria that this world is not easy,\u201d Makinde said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible for you to delegate, ask people to go all over the place but when they are reporting to you, if something has not been added, a few things may have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in election season basically and what I will say to us as a people is that we need to choose wisely and elect the people who have the energy to truly serve the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makinde Only those with the \u201cenergy\u201d to rule Nigeria should be elected in 2023, according to Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo. Makinde said governance is not a simple assignment, speaking at a retirement thanksgiving service for Samson Ayokunle, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Tuesday. He recommended presidential hopefuls in their seventies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}