Ibadan-based broadcast journalist and political scientist, Edmund Obilo has revealed that he is now aiming for leadership positions.
Obilo, who currently anchors State Affairs on Splash FM, revealed this on Wednesday, during a panel discussion to celebrate Nigeria’s 60th anniversary.
The panel discussion which took place at J Traver’s Place inside St. Patrick Church, Ibadan featured various panelists and discussants who spoke on the theme: Nigeria at 60: Failing, Failed or Fallen.
He stated that it is important for people like him to take up leadership positions in order to solve the leadership crisis that has made the nation fail to reach its potentials, 60 years after independence.
Obilo, however, condemned the ethnic question in the country noting that factors like this contribute to the problems of the state.
According to him, even though his parents were from Imo State, he was born in Benin but he had lived in Ibadan for the last 15 years so what should stop him from taking up leadership positions in any of part of the country.
However, he revealed that there are already plans ongoing to tackle the ethnic questions that might arise anytime he decides to go into politics.
He also corrected the popular belief that he bagged his first degree from the University of Benin.
” I didn’t attend the University of Benin. I went to Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. A lot of people make this mistake but I will release my full profile soon,”he said.
