Chairman, Board of Trustees, Wilson and Yinka Badejo Foundation (WYBF), who is also President/Chief Executive Officer, Foursquare Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Osaren Emokpae, has said that Nigeria is an unfair country lacking in equity and inclusiveness from the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria, saying that it became worse with military intervention.

Emokpae made the remark in Lagos, while addressing the media on the 16th yearly lecture of WYBF and scholarship award scheduled for August 16, 2023 with the theme: “Negotiating a Fairer Nigeria,” where scholarships would be given to 50 indigent and brilliant students by the Foundation at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos.

He said Chairman of the occasion is Director-General, NIIA, Prof. Eghoda Osaghae; while the Father of the Day is General Overseer, Foursquare Gospel Church of Nigeria, Rev. Sam Aboyeji, among other guests.

Emokpae said: “We were expecting President Bola Tinubu to toe the line of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who brought into his government technocrats like Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and others as Minister of Finance; Oby Ezekwesili as Minister of Education, among others, who turned things around in the country.

“Tinubu, however, has shocked Nigerians by recycling old politicians as ministers.” He urged well-meaning Nigerians to contribute to the Foundation founded by former General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, Rev. Wilson Adebogun Badejo, to put smiles on the faces of the downtrodden masses.