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Ojifo-Raphael: LET’S CHANGE OUR PARADIGM A speech made in Univer... : A speech made in University of Port Harcourt by OJIFO RAPHAEL UNDIANDEYE, Students’ Union Government Presidential Aspirant, February 2...

A speech made in University of Port Harcourt by OJIFO RAPHAEL UNDIANDEYE, Students’ Union Government Presidential Aspirant, February 2014. THE CHANGE WE’VE ALWAYS HOPED FOR, IS NOW! Dear Friends, We have reached an inflexion point; a moment in our history where our fingerprints on the ballot would determine the future of our government; a moment in which our footprints, on the sands of this university, would determine the future of national and continental leadership. Student’s leadership is undeniably the trustee of societal leadership, and as such, ought to be given premium, not just by those out there, but by us in here. For this very reason, we must not fail to lay our hands on worthy causes which should drive our leadership. It is very clear (and history guides us accordingly) that whatever informs the leadership student’s offer today is that which will certainly drive the leadership they will offer tomorrow. If leadership at this stage of our studentship, is c

A speech made in University of Port Harcourt by OJIFO RAPHAEL UNDIANDEYE, Students’ Union Government Presidential Aspirant, February 2014. HOPE IS ALL WE NEED NOW! Fellow Comrades, I am speaking to you today because, everywhere in the world today, students’ leadership is determining the direction of national and state development. The national space we live in today is a country of over 150 million people with over 200 universities. It is the second largest economy on the African Continent. Upon independence, it had a per capita income that was larger than that of several Asia-pacific countries and a preferred investment destination. It has always had the potential which is trying to materialise (at best) and hardly materializing (at worse). Nigeria is richly endowed by providence. She is strategically positioned and blessed with a high spectrum of human and material resources and not plagued by the numerous natural disasters like draught, earthquakes, tornadoes,

A speech made in University of Port Harcourt by OJIFO RAPHAEL UNDIANDEYE, Students’ Union Government Presidential Aspirant, February 2014. LET’S CHANGE OUR PARADIGM Dear Comrades, Our union-government is experiencing the best of times, and it is in the worst of times. It is in an age of wisdom, it is in an age of foolishness; it is in an epoch of belief, it is in an epoch of incredulity; it is in a season of light, it is in a season of darkness; it is   in the spring of Hope, it is in the winter of despair; it is in the climate of Change, it is the in clime of harmful status quos; it is in the ambience of a needful Paradigm shift, it is in a situation of stagnation; it has everything before it, it has nothing before it; it is   going direct to Heaven, it is going direct the other way. In short, this period is a paradox; the nosiest of times, with the noise propagated by elements who insist that they be received for evil or for good; and the quietest of times, with the q