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Rishi Sunak is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. If I have him in a room to share an idea, I will tell him this: “bring back your country to the world. You have so many intangibles which can compound because of institutions which have been built over decades. You are likely going to struggle if you think that a wholly inside-focused UK can compete going forward. Look at America, just because many immigrants could not come for 18 months, due to Covid-19, many non-tech companies are struggling as they have no workers to run their operations”. Rishi will make history, becoming the first Asian-British to lead the UK. This is his moment.
Coming back home, the next President of Nigeria will have to provide a new direction for the economy. Unlike the UK, Nigeria has to look deeper internally. Any person who can provide 24/7 electricity in Nigeria will become this generation’s greatest leader. If that happens, many great things will happen. I also want to see a deep seaport in Cross River/Akwa Ibom to reduce the cost of exports. With that, we do not have to truck things from Aba to Lagos before we can export them.
This election must not be all about Obi, Atiku and Tinubu. Yes, Nigerians have to think how they can help Nigeria. I take you back to the 1970s just after the Biafra war when communities in South East Nigeria gathered for the way forward. They have lost a war. Their homes have been ravaged. Most of their sons are never coming back. The little money they had in the bank had been taken over.
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But they did one thing: they came together and said: “we do not expect any help from anywhere to rebuild these schools, clinics, etc. We have to rebuild and make no excuses”. Every community in SE has a community development union. In Ovim, they set up the Ovim Community League. The main goal? Raise money and build/rebuild schools, clinics, etc. They executed. That spirit is needed in Nigeria today. It has gone past any president.
I have called the elders of the1970s Southeast Nigeria the “greatest generation in Igbo Nation’ because of the uncommon leadership they demonstrated just after the war.
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The UK PM merry go round will reach every MP, except folks are ready to move from fantasy to reality, no magic formula is imminent.
As for Nigeria, so many things are distorted, so even those who can do things are often discredited, and you see perpetual mediocres and very dishonest people being propped up as leaders.
The problem of Nigeria is Nigerians, some are manipulated, while some deliberately live in falsehood. You cannot build a nation on lies, so if everything is continually seen as politics, then expect the miseries to scale.