Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (APC Ekiti central), has called on Nigerians to vote for a candidate with scientific knowledge and understanding of the problems and the required way out in the general elections scheduled to hold early next year.
He stated this in Abuja Friday at an elaborate interview with journalists. He said sentiments of whatever form should be jettisoned by Nigerians in electing who becomes the next president of the country.
He posited that based on myriad of challenges or problems confronting the country, a leader with scientific understanding of the problems and required solutions to them is what is needed and not one banking on any form of sentiments to get to office.
“My own understanding of what Nigeria needs right now is a president who has the scientific understanding of what is to be done, scientific understanding of what is wrong, the antecedent of having been able to fix broken communities, broken states, broken situations and who has a scientific understanding of the workings of the economy because a lot of the problems that we have, are traceable to the economy.
“If the economy is buoyant, there will be employment, if there is employment, the socio-economic implication of that is crime rate will go down because more able bodied people will be able to survive either as business entrepreneurs or people are engaged by companies or government agencies where they can build a reliable career.
“As much as possible, we also need somebody who will have the courage to take decision without minding whose ox is goad , and without setting out to either protect any particular religion or tribe or group of people,” he said.
