Let me run! I can fix the country! Rotate the Presidency!
What and how are they going to fix and where are they (bugs bunnies) running to. Many of the candidates still assume it is the same game as usual. It is far from it. Our country is a mess. The next president has monumental task before him/her.
Yes, it is the media’s moment every four years, as they come in droves, fistful of cash, to reach the electorate. This institution should be bold in asking the right questions and ensure that the pivotal questions are answered. Afterall, to run and fix a country that is a ‘minute to midnight’ the candidate must understand the parts (regional needs), the engine (economic, social, and political needs), and the passengers (individual’s needs) and the means to resolve them. You may want to ask amongst other questions, the following:
(a) How will they restructure our electricity to fulfil uninterrupted power supply 365 days a year? After all we have abundant gas in Nigeria most of which is exported. We even export electricity. Uninterrupted electricity will increase production, motivate foreign investors, enable storage, reduce distribution cost, support the relationship instruments required between and amongst individuals, institutions, and the governing bodies, support us socially, and afford the country security and employment. Uninterrupted electricity may increase employment rate by 30%.
(b) How and what will the candidate do to assure running water in every house and industry. Manufacturing and foreign investment will continue to be impacted without electricity and water.
(c) Policing plays a very important role in the security of any society. They are the savior of civil society. Without them there will be chaos. How will any of the candidate restructure policing and their relationships with the society. Every industrialized society, have Cities, States, and Federal policing and relationship structures with the society.
(d) How would any of the candidate resolve the Almagiris and the internally displaced persons in the North. How would the candidate solve the 40% unemployment and underemployment in the North central and the South? A major insecurity to come.
(e) What and how will the candidate structure and manage targeted collective resources for targeted collective needs without misappropriation? How will corruption be managed? We will be faced with major insecurities in housing, pension, health care, education, food cost, security of life and property, etc. What programs and types of safety nets will the candidates bring to bear?
(f) How will the candidate restructure the judiciary that may bring about confidence and condition everyone to adhere to the rule of law?
(g) How and what will the candidate do to stop micromanagement and foster relationships within and between the government, bureaucracy, institutions, organizations, and the people of the country for a greater society?
(h) How would the candidate resolve our petroleum industry and refinery?
(i) How will the candidate solve malaria disease which is costing unimaginable loss of manpower hours and deaths?
(j) How will the candidate resolve terrorism and banditry in Nigeria?
(k) How will the candidate bring the country together?
We are faced with real challenges. I hope the candidates understand the problems before them and many problems to come.
‘Ideological subversion or psychological warfare changes the perception of reality… to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country' ……Yuri Bezmenov.
To doubt the external and internal ideological subversion and psychological warfare against our nation, look around you and ask yourself why we have failed to provide these simply primary needs that make greater society with our bountiful human resources?
I have been to many underdeveloped countries. They bear many of the same precursors. We will require a great communicator, an organizer, a mentor, a candidate that does not discriminate sexually, ethnically, and religiously when delegating authority, a builder. They are rear, they are unique. We have been injuriously subverted.
I will leave this with anyone who is a patriot. An African country’s finance minister once said to me, ‘What is wrong with you guys? We sent our delegates to Lagos to learn the beautiful structure you built. You are so smart you even created the tagline, ’Eko oni baje o’ (with an ascent) which Lagosians use as parting comradery lingua. Maybe you are not ready yet. When you are ready you know who you need as your President’.
