Presidential aspirant, Prof Imumolen, to open campaign by subsidising food prices

…condemns lecturers’ strike as archaic

A presidential aspirant, Prof. Chris Imumolen, says he will commence his political campaign next month with a practical demonstration of what he would do when elected by subsidising prices of essential food items in different parts of the country.

Imumolen, who spoke on the state of the nation at a press conference held in Lagos, also condemned the use of strike actions by workers including lecturers as a way to get government to accede to their demands.

He said, “From next month, my campaign team will start subsidising the cost of food for Nigerians in Nigeria. We will start selling a bag of rice for as low as N19,000; bread that is sold for N200 will go to N50 to show Nigerians what we want to do if I emerge as the president.”

The educationist, who owns three universities in Africa, South America and North America, said he would not waste his time on the traditional campaign method run of point agenda, saying it only made politicians to say what they would not do.

He said, “How many presidential candidates who became president fulfilled those points? We need to start doing things differently, and we should not follow that traditional way of those people who tell you what they are going to do and in the end they never fulfil it. We are not following that trend.”

He also lamented the rise in crime rate and insecurity in the country, noting that school pupils, college students and other young people had been lured into secret cults in many schools and on their streets, freely using lethal weapons open fights.

“We are going to combat it (crime) and it is so easy but we cannot reveal the strategy openly. We know what we are going to do, and within one year, you will begin to live safely without anything happening to you,” he said.

On how he plans to finance his campaign, he said, “We would privately do it and we have a lot of Nigerians, and individuals who are supporting this course.

“We don’t have the godfather we are looking up to for instructions or people we have signed a contract with. We have the willpower. And again, knowing that we are coming from a sphere that is not political; we have not been on the political scene. We are plain and pure. You should understand that coming outside the politics into politics means we have a lot we are going to do. So we have that will; we need a leader that has a will, who can do something without looking at people’s faces because what you are doing is in the interest of general Nigerians.”

Imumolen said Nigerians should entrust the leadership of the country to selfless leader who are genuine and had done things privately for the benefit of the society.

For him, he said, “In education, I have three universities that have given scholarships to over 500,000 Nigerians, who again have such an experience. So from agriculture to security, we have been doing this privately and we can do it when we get the top job. That is part of the confidence we have that when we get there, we will change the narrative.”