One of these men will likely become the next president of Nigeria. The delegates have narrowed the options. Statistically, a delegate – about 10,000 of them – have a factor of 100 impact on deciding who becomes a president in Nigeria over a general election voter. Yet, there is nothing you can do about it – you have to work with the options which are available.

But here is the fact: many will tell you that nothing can change in Nigeria. That is a big lie.Leaders matter in markets, politics, and indeed everything in life. As in business where CEOs are paid to design and commit to execute business models, presidents among other things are expected to execute their own political models via policies which will cover economy, security, international relations, etc.

Obi, Atiku and Tinubu possibly benefitted from the best in Nigeria. They attended our then-great secondary schools and at least one of them enjoyed our massively subsidized public universities or equivalent. The only thing Nigeria gives a poor man or woman is subsidized university education. If you remove it, no economic progress can happen in many families. 

So the question is: who among these men can deliver that promise of economic mobility? When we talk about mobility, you must understand that this is real. How can a nation offer you choices in life and who has the capacity to make it happen? If you vote for tribe, religion, and those marginals, nothing will change. But if you vote for competence (use your yardstick), great moments will come.

Understand one thing: Nigeria does not have enough graduates to run its economy if we have the right leadership. In other words, everyone will have a GREAT job. Your PVC (permanent voters card) will determine that future. Many of us are in positions that our lives will not be affected by who becomes the president of Nigeria. But yours could be impacted. And I challenge you to get your PVC and go out and vote when the time comes. Obasanjo gave us choices as he created great jobs; banks were hiring every weekend in big halls. A visionary leader has tools which can create 7 million GREAT jobs in two years in Nigeria.

Vote for competence, not religion, tribe or the marginals. Who becomes the president of Nigeria or America will not change anything in my life today. But I would not have said the same many years ago; happy for what Nigeria offered in the early 2000s. Get PVC and Vote!

Create that future and make it predictable with your PVC.

This video touched me: young people in Nigeria fighting to get their voting cards. I commend them for this uncommon commitment, and I am hoping that by 2023, they will get a president that will provide leadership. Young People, continue to fight for that future. The future belongs to you and you can take it back. Many of these leaders cannot steal it, even though they paused it, but with energies like this, there will be victory.

I call on INEC to deploy those billions of naira to make this process seamless. They need to ship more registration machines to the east, west, north and south.  Young People have taken over. Do not mess with them.

As that happens, I ask the Police to watch the registration intimidations happening in some cities. Those must be immediately addressed. You cannot prevent people from registering. Young People: this is your nation. Remember: vote for a leader that will save the future, forget the sound of his name, how he prays or those marginals. Focus on competence, decency, honour and service. I have already VOTED for all of you. May God bless the youth of Nigeria.

At Tekedia Mini-MBA which begins the Live Zoom session today, I will explain these two equations. Until the market has validated that idea, it remains “inventive”. We believe in the  construct that fixing market frictions must bring growth, and growth can only come when ideas become products to fix frictions customers have.

As that happens, those products must be awesome. There is never going to be a great company without awesome products or services. And to do that, a group of people must have efficiently organized factors of production with tools and processes, and executed at a superior level.

• 1. Innovation = Invention + Commercialization
• 2. Great Companies = Awesome Products + Superior Execution

Have a bigger momentum [Impact] in markets; grow your size [mass] and have direction at fast pace [velocity]. Check well, we have solved the analogous physics in markets (Momentum = mass x velocity).

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