Introduction Permit me to express profound appreciation to the Ondo State Government under the leadership of His Excellency, Governor Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, for inviting me as Guest Speaker at th is year’s celebration of the historic June 12, 1993 Presidential Election. The issue for discussion is most topical and relevant in the context of the failure of all governments since 1993 to say farewell to poverty. This has resulted in the daily adversities of Boko Haram insurgency, terrorism, banditry, herders-farmers conflicts, with the accompanied pains, pangs, agony, wailing, abductions , destruction of farmlands and bloodshed that now characterize daily life experiences in every part of Nigeria. There is hardly any sane person in Nigeria today who is not disturbed that Nigeria has become a killing field with blood stains in every part of the country....