If the electorate decides the result of elections in Nigeria, an incumbent government would not allow ASUU labor unrest to linger for seven months. If they believe the electorates' vote will decide the fate of their candidates in the next major election in 5 months, they will engage in reasonable dialogue with ASUU who have genuine grievances that border on development and qualitative education for our wards and resolve the problem asap.
And this will not be a concern for APC's incumbent government alone, it will raise a red flag for other major parties and their politicians. They will mount pressure on the APC government to engage and be reasonable with ASUU's demands.
The majority of Nigerian politicians send their children to private schools or schools abroad, so, they are not directly impacted. But the children of the voters or young voters are affected. Does Tinubu think that youths who have been home because his party refused to engage will vote for him? I believe he thinks they do not matter because they can be bought in his own words, "ti e ba teka, e ni gb'owo", meaning if you do not vote for us, you will not get paid. He said this publicly during the campaign for Ekiti's governorship election, insulting the Nigerian electorate. Politicians like Tinubu believe they can buy votes with money in Bullion van. I hope the younger voters in Nigeria will tell them to go to hell with their blood and stolen money.
More than 70% of eligible voters in Nigeria are below the age of 35 - that is about 85 million voters. The young people in Nigeria have the power to toss out governments that ignore them and will not care for their most important needs. A party whose leader called them lazy while they sit down do nothing all their lives but sit in the corridor of power with nothing to show for it. I encourage young Nigerians to troop out to vote and vote their conscience in this coming election. Speak with your vote and stop fighting on social media. I urge all eligible voters in Nigeria to remove ethnic and religious sentiments as the primary driver of their choice. We should ask critical questions:
1. Who are these candidates?
2. Have they been truthful about who they are and their stories?
3. What is their record of achievement when they held political positions in the past?
4. Did they respect the electorate or they are usurpers who think Nigerians are idiots, so they can continue to impose their own candidates who will do their bidding on them?
5. Have they delivered quality campaign promises or they are touting they built roads, paid salaries, gave scholarships, etc as indices of development, or they can point to how they revamped the educational sector, increase income, and created opportunities for the electorate to thrive, dealt with corruption, they can prove to Nigerians their wealth is built on genuine hard work and not money from obtained through their influence in government.
6. Do they have ideas on how to solve some of the most urgent and debilitating problems in Nigeria - insecurity, corruption, unemployment, poor educational structure, high-interest rate, rebranding of the country as the best place to do business in the world, fight and reduce fiscal indiscipline that leads to loss of billions of dollars every year, curb illegal bunkering of oil and minerals resources, do not engage in nepotism, have a plan on how to engage the best and brightest Nigerians all over the world to return home to help build the nation, have a solid plan for the agri-food sector, have a blueprint of how to de-emphasize mineral export economy and create channels for a diversified economy based on finished value-added goods - made in Nigeria, revamp our healthcare system, among other needs....
7. How do they want to bring health care to the doorsteps of ordinary Nigerians so our people can stop dying like chickens?
8. Are they nationalists or ethnic bigots?
9. How they will draw on private sector money to grow the economy - how they will attract private investors.
10. How they will reform the judiciary to make it more effective - justice delayed is denied... the judiciary sector in Nigeria still operates by the colonial era rules 62 years after independence ... many corrupt judges, lack of effective process, lack of digitalization of the system and process makes it go on forever.
11. How will they reconcile aggrieved ethnic groups - the middle belt people who are being displaced by the Hausa, the Igbos who continue to cry of neglect and marginalization, the Almajiris, the rural people in the inner towns of the south-west, middle belt, southern Kaduna, Zamfara, etc. who are being terrorized by Fulani bandits from Northern Nigeria and the rest of West Africa, the Niger-Delta people, among many.
12. Are they in the best mental state of health or they can't remember the name of their wife? We do not want another sick president that will rule by incompetent de facto buffoons......
The way to choose right in 2023 is to choose based on proven and authenticated metrics, choose from the head, not the heart (emotions). We must get it right in 2023, otherwise, we are in greater trouble than anyone can imagine. I wrote the same thing pre-2019 election, here we are in 2022. I hope it will be different this time around. We want a Nigeria we can boast of in our lifetime.... many of us in the diaspora want to come home....but not to our current state-Nigeria... we want a better country.
And this will not be a concern for APC's incumbent government alone, it will raise a red flag for other major parties and their politicians. They will mount pressure on the APC government to engage and be reasonable with ASUU's demands.
The majority of Nigerian politicians send their children to private schools or schools abroad, so, they are not directly impacted. But the children of the voters or young voters are affected. Does Tinubu think that youths who have been home because his party refused to engage will vote for him? I believe he thinks they do not matter because they can be bought in his own words, "ti e ba teka, e ni gb'owo", meaning if you do not vote for us, you will not get paid. He said this publicly during the campaign for Ekiti's governorship election, insulting the Nigerian electorate. Politicians like Tinubu believe they can buy votes with money in Bullion van. I hope the younger voters in Nigeria will tell them to go to hell with their blood and stolen money.
More than 70% of eligible voters in Nigeria are below the age of 35 - that is about 85 million voters. The young people in Nigeria have the power to toss out governments that ignore them and will not care for their most important needs. A party whose leader called them lazy while they sit down do nothing all their lives but sit in the corridor of power with nothing to show for it. I encourage young Nigerians to troop out to vote and vote their conscience in this coming election. Speak with your vote and stop fighting on social media. I urge all eligible voters in Nigeria to remove ethnic and religious sentiments as the primary driver of their choice. We should ask critical questions:
1. Who are these candidates?
2. Have they been truthful about who they are and their stories?
3. What is their record of achievement when they held political positions in the past?
4. Did they respect the electorate or they are usurpers who think Nigerians are idiots, so they can continue to impose their own candidates who will do their bidding on them?
5. Have they delivered quality campaign promises or they are touting they built roads, paid salaries, gave scholarships, etc as indices of development, or they can point to how they revamped the educational sector, increase income, and created opportunities for the electorate to thrive, dealt with corruption, they can prove to Nigerians their wealth is built on genuine hard work and not money from obtained through their influence in government.
6. Do they have ideas on how to solve some of the most urgent and debilitating problems in Nigeria - insecurity, corruption, unemployment, poor educational structure, high-interest rate, rebranding of the country as the best place to do business in the world, fight and reduce fiscal indiscipline that leads to loss of billions of dollars every year, curb illegal bunkering of oil and minerals resources, do not engage in nepotism, have a plan on how to engage the best and brightest Nigerians all over the world to return home to help build the nation, have a solid plan for the agri-food sector, have a blueprint of how to de-emphasize mineral export economy and create channels for a diversified economy based on finished value-added goods - made in Nigeria, revamp our healthcare system, among other needs....
7. How do they want to bring health care to the doorsteps of ordinary Nigerians so our people can stop dying like chickens?
8. Are they nationalists or ethnic bigots?
9. How they will draw on private sector money to grow the economy - how they will attract private investors.
10. How they will reform the judiciary to make it more effective - justice delayed is denied... the judiciary sector in Nigeria still operates by the colonial era rules 62 years after independence ... many corrupt judges, lack of effective process, lack of digitalization of the system and process makes it go on forever.
11. How will they reconcile aggrieved ethnic groups - the middle belt people who are being displaced by the Hausa, the Igbos who continue to cry of neglect and marginalization, the Almajiris, the rural people in the inner towns of the south-west, middle belt, southern Kaduna, Zamfara, etc. who are being terrorized by Fulani bandits from Northern Nigeria and the rest of West Africa, the Niger-Delta people, among many.
12. Are they in the best mental state of health or they can't remember the name of their wife? We do not want another sick president that will rule by incompetent de facto buffoons......
The way to choose right in 2023 is to choose based on proven and authenticated metrics, choose from the head, not the heart (emotions). We must get it right in 2023, otherwise, we are in greater trouble than anyone can imagine. I wrote the same thing pre-2019 election, here we are in 2022. I hope it will be different this time around. We want a Nigeria we can boast of in our lifetime.... many of us in the diaspora want to come home....but not to our current state-Nigeria... we want a better country.
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