Former Cross River State Governor and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) presidential candidate, Donald Duke has cautioned Nigerians about what he described as an impending national crisis.

Duke said: “The direction the country is going requires very urgent intervention. In another four years, if we don’t change the trajectory, disaster which is already looming will deepen further.”

“It’s the urgency the clear and apparent urgency of where we are today. You could be a spectator and make all sorts of analysis, or you can get involved.”

“A combination of all. The economy is broken; it’s not growing. Call it Boko Haram, call it ISWAP, call it banditry or kidnapping those are the fallout. Those are the symptoms of inadequacy.”

“In the last 20-plus years, there has been very little governance going on — a lot of politics and no governance. The recent scandal where someone sets up an office in the Federal Secretariat that is not an institution of government shows there is poor governance in the system. Nothing speaks louder than that.”

“You have poor governance as a derivative of leadership, and you have an economy that is just not growing. How can you grow an economy with interest rates in the upper 30s?”

“Ideally, the opposition should come together. We have a splintered opposition with a common goal, but it doesn’t work that way. I want to be the voice of reason, because eventually, I think we all have to come together to decide where this country will go.”