Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BUHARI WINS‹BUT THE NIGERIA PEOPLES?

You re right.All human being s are spirit being s but how many will grasp or internalize the essence of your message.All each of us need to focus on is God s Light,the led & the leaders.All imaginations,wisdom inventions creativity are all portions of or emanate or enabled from Kingdom of God light.

From an evangelical news I read that Israeli scientists will perfect cancer cure in a year's time .Another Japanese scientist who read both Medicine & Forestry gave discovered the cancer scare effect by walking in the woods without smartphones.Forest bathing so to speak

Nigerian immigrants are doing fine abroad because the environment enhanced their skills better at home.

However we should annul this cumbersome election system.a cheaper digital option is available! Then INEC can concentrate more on Voters education in collaboration with many sincerely patriotic stakeholders volunteer s.As I have recommended you last July aspirants too need to prepare far ahead of their time.Nigerians have never had Presidential or Gov thst prepared far ahead like 3-4 yrs - we have always had candidates emerging at last or recycling any one or recall a military favorite since 1999.

Hope we learn fast & also go slow  in numerous   personality politics and switch to ideological politics & most everyone should be monitoring budget programmes & implementation Co-efficient half truly ,& watch the Treasury,our reserve .do you know as you empirical ly grasped What impoverished Common Nigerians plus myself till date? Looting in trillions & in recent decade were >$200bn- within 6 yrs of ex- regime & this figure excluding Abacha loot is good enough to sustain Uk & each of the major European countries.in fact David Cameron said if such was looted from Uk there will be no UK!

Yet we revel in looting & looters are among us not just abroad. No more light to continue,ORO PO NINU IWE Kobo 

Nb hope we can diversify amply to agric & yield trillions from our vast arable land.Isreal that turned deserts into oasis years back had just sold 2 companies with driverless cars concept to USA & added $ 23bn to their GdP barely a fortnight.

Willpower,revolution of ideas,discipline patriotism ,sincere faith & Love of others& annulment of gens as power source in Nigerian honed & offices -we need stable grid power from many other sources than water bodies & should we be expecting just 7000 megawatts ? Since 1984-2019!.South Africa s 11 states are run by 40-50 megawatts .God heal all our hearts & ostentatious eyes - because our land is already Bless ed- inclusive of exportable manpower like you.Gbemi Tijani,2 7.2.19

On Feb 27, 2019 11:57 AM, "Michael Vickers" <mvickers@mvickers.plus.com> wrote:

Well, APC/ Buhari made it. And with over 3 million votes to spare

—pending a bit of the customary horse-trading with aggrieved losers. 

 

No reports yet on outgoing Federal incumbent losers hurrying to depart/ or already 

vanished. No word of instructions given EFCC. Better hunting perhaps after 9th March, 

State Elections, and voting verdicts on State Governors seeking re-election?  

So? 

Another four years of bonanza for Buhari associates and supporters. Another four years

of economic stagnation/ stalled development. Another four years of profound distress for the 

many skilled folk still—after nearly 60 years—trying to take Nigeria and its 195+million 

peoples forward. Basic matters—Housing/ Health/ Education/ Employment/ Infrastructure/ 

Industrial Power/ Economy/ Environment/ Law & Order. 

 

So? 

Continue to Export Crude. 

Do not Industrialise. 

Do not provide reliable Electrical Power.

Do not Diversify. 

Maintain an Import Economy. 

Including high dependence on staple foods. 

All oligarchs happy—African/ UK/ US/ Euro, et al. 

For the rest? Continued Kleptocracy and ever deeper stagnation. 

No help from UK/ or US, to sort it out. 

" …Nigeria is a Democracy. With free and fair elections. 

They are our good friends." 

And no sign of OIL drying up. 

But the Nigeria people? 

…Who? 

And the sustained crippling corruption? 

…What? 

"We repeat. Nigeria is our great and respected friend." 

So? 

When government fails? And friends prove false? 

Then Nigeria folk resort to what they have worked hard at long years before, 

In centuries past; and with increasing application since Independence; and that is

Self-reliance. 

Igbo folk are not the only people who have applied this 

Principle in a great many areas of practical activity. Nigeria folk now have 

A massive resource bank of skills; many taken forward to high competence. 

These skill banks are cross-cultural/ cross-ethnic/ cross-regional/ multi-state. 

Cyber-contact/ communication enables issues/ planning/ activity in 

All areas of business and many professions to be started up/ built/ sustained. 

As younger Nigeria folk particularly will know, a great many have already 

Forged difficult but often successful paths. External as well as internal support and 

Resources have been attracted. Many with roots deep in Tradition. Most have 

been pleased with results. 

When I first came to Nigeria in the 1960s, I was a cold, tight-buttoned, whiteman. 

Nigeria folk immediately brought amazing Light into my life. In fact what Nigeria 

Folk did was to ignite the Light I had within. And that Light has remained at the 

core of my being to the present day. It has enabled me to achieve much, and 

To contribute more than I ever thought possible. 

I say nothing more. I seek merely to remind Nigeria folk of 

That resource within, that if treated respectfully, will provide the ignition key to 

Great new achievements and contributions. 

As Prof Falola has recently noted, "Nigeria's Elections Won't Change Anything." 

What WILL change things, and in the direction of a positive and resourceful Nigeria, 

is deployment of what Nigeria folk—though few will be aware of it—possess and in 

great abundance. And that is what I have sought to emphasise in words and thoughts 

above—and what in more powerful and appropriate language my late and Great Friend, 

Prof Okon Uya referred to as, the "rocket fuel" of that root resource within—Great Light. 

Best,  Baba m

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