“ Workers are not getting their pay regularly while strikes are going on here and there.
“The leaders are not looking for solutions to the problems, workers are also not working, but are asking for their pay,” he said.
Fasoroti urged leaders to have a rethink instead of celebrating a nation with low productivity.
Mr Mike Adeyeye, former Chairman of Ondo State Sports Council, said Nigeria needed a long term plan to be used in developing the country.
“All the developed countries have development plans that are still on for the next 100 years, so any government that comes into power follows it.
“The development plan is there, no matter the party that wins election. I think we have to go back to the drawing board, several administrations, different plans would not move us forward,’’ he said.
In Ado-Ekiti, however, respondents were unanimous that there was cause for cheer after 55 years of independence.
While some blamed inept leadership for the nation’s current challenges, others hinged the development on bad followership.
A former presidential candidate of the Africa Peoples Alliance and one-time deputy governor of old Ondo State, Alhaji Musa Ayeni, said the country was wrong to toe the path of mono-economy.
Ayeni, a former university lecturer, described agriculture as a veritable source of employment for jobless youths as well as steady source of revenue for all levels of government if well tapped.
Speaking in the same vein, the senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Mrs Abiodun Olujimi, called for the strengthening of employment generating agencies such as he National Directorate of Employment.
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