Congratulations Labour Party, you are set now, just as PDP. We’re getting closer to phase two. We hope APC will conclude its own process very soon with the definitive vice presidential aspirant. I expect Obi & Ahmed to make its case just as Atiku & Okowa will do. When Tinubu announces his running mate, we will welcome the duo also.
As that happens, I have a message to all young people: show civility and look unto the future and make the right call. I can promise you that whoever becomes the President of Nigeria will have zero impact in my life and those of my generation; Nigeria settled us very well. But at your time, Nigeria is weak, dysfunctional and largely lost. But there is an opportunity for a new beginning; you all can architect that future.
To get that future, avoid the tribalization of this important national mission. The politicians are seeding problems with some devilish statements. That an Umuahia boy is excited about Obi does not mean he is doing so because Obi is from the Southeast. He is a fan of Obi because he finds vision in Obi. If a Yoruba boy is excited about Tinubu, respect that. I expect you to respect Atiku’s supporters also. Understand that Nigeria’s challenges are not tribalized or regionalized; everyone’s a victim. But we can all be winners if we make the right decisions.
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More than 70% of your senior political leaders do not use the Nigerian healthcare system. And their children do not attend our universities. And when they graduate, they now import them into CBN, LNG, etc which have “dollarized” certificates – yes, foreign degrees are superior and they cut you out! Sure – I get those privileges myself and that is the revealing aspect. Get your PVC so that when the election time comes, you will be ready to change the future.
See this election as destiny-reshaping. You are all smart young people; I expect you all to get your PVC and make the right call. A few years ago, I went to my former school’s hospital and saw a sitting Nigerian president in the waiting room; possibly he came for a routine check and was waiting for a nurse.
Get your PVC, you cannot miss the 2023 project!
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The Labour Party has signed a top midfielder, he can give pinpoint passes and even score long range goals occasionally; a great signing there. The mythical structure seems to be forming at exponential rate, it remains the party that generates new contents and excitement on weekly basis.
Nigerians need hope and belief more than anything else, because they are what forms the foundation of participatory democratic governance. When your compatriots start believing, no one will be breaking pipelines or vandalizing transmission lines, and you see people becoming more responsible without being whipped into line daily.
If Nigeria rises, everyone connected to Nigeria gets some global bragging rights, it doesn’t matter whether you benefit economically or not; a working Nigeria is the pride of all of us. At least it saves all of us some embarrassment and the need to constantly explain the unexplainable. Good thinking is still more edifying than fat bank accounts.
This time we have more choices, top choices at that, so no one has any excuse to sit it out. It doesn’t matter how long it takes you to get your PVC, the stress and length of time are nothing compared to 8 years of misery and embarrassment; it’s that simple.