Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Donald Duke has lamented that Nigeria has become so desolate that bandits and kidnappers now collect taxes.
“The fault is of the political class for the country’s predicament. It is time the common man took reins of power,” he said.
Duke spoke in Abuja during the presentation of Certificates of Return and party flags to the PRP candidates for the 2027 elections.
“Our land has become so desolate that bandits, gangsters and kidnappers collect taxes while the government collects excuses,” he said. A report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics indicated that a total of about ₦2tn was paid as ransom to kidnappers in 2025 alone, an amount that is equivalent to about 10 per cent of the entire federal budget.
All this because our leaders have failed to do the right thing, when it was the right thing and for whom it was the right thing. At the end of the day, the best politics is and always will be doing the right thing, not the expedient thing. And he who does not know what is right has no right to lead others.”
He promised to build a nation where “farmers can come home safely from the fields and where every child has a desk and chair in a decent learning environment.”
Duke, who said the mission of the PRP is to empower ordinary Nigerians and not political elites, explained that the elite has had their turn in leadership.
“The scavengers have had their day. The common man, the true Nigerian, market woman, farmer and unemployed graduate are next. And I, Donald Duke, want to champion them.
“This will be a hard and bitter fight, because they will fight back. But we are tougher, we are more resilient, and our cause is just and righteous. “We stood together to win our independence from an empire, together we can redeem Nigeria from these scavengers,” he said
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