{"id":7162,"date":"2022-04-18T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:46:35","slug":"bat-charges-the-youths-to-change-nigerias-story-stops-lamentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7162","title":{"rendered":"BAT Charges The Youths To Change Nigeria\u2019s Story, Stops Lamentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has called on the youths to change Nigeria\u2019s story and desist from lamenting on the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Jagaban of Borgu stated this during a rally organised by youths, under the aegis of Progressive Youth of South-West, to support his presidential bid in Onikan, Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Speaking to Youths, he said,\u201dWe as a nation can conveniently feed ourselves by being creative, visionary and committed. We cannot continue the lamentation of the past. We cannot continue with excuses of power failure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNo nation made rapid development without electricity. Give us power and if we cannot be successful then you can abuse us; you cannot give us an erratic power supply that is undependable and then blame us again that we are lazy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNigeria, it is about time. We have enough gas to generate electricity and supply the rest of Europe and make money. You know it. We don\u2019t want to bore you with it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I started (as governor of Lagos State), we used to pick bodies on the streets. Today, Lagos is one of the cleanest, most progressive states in the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has called on the youths to change Nigeria\u2019s story and desist from lamenting on the past. The Jagaban of Borgu stated this during a rally organised by youths, under the aegis of Progressive Youth of South-West, to support his presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4290,4291,92,3634],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-bat","tag-lamentation","tag-nigeria","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}