Young People, do not follow the path of insult. Do not follow the path of attack. Keep this campaign clean, and make a case: who can make your life better? Who can make your community better? Who can make your nation better? I am an optimist and I believe that the future is full of abundance even in Nigeria. This life is sweet, and you do not need to have blue blood to experience that sweetener. One leader can change the destinies of people.
Do you know what it means to graduate from a university, do your youth service – and in 3 months, you get a decent job? Do you know the liberation that comes when those digits drop in your bank account? Do you know the hope you give people who depend on you? Do you know how that first job opens your life playbook? People, there is power in a paycheck!
As you look at Atiku, Tinubu and Obi, forget their tribes, forget how they pray, but focus on one thing: if you are to hire a CEO for the most important company in Africa, who will you give that job? I run a fund which invests in startups. One thing that is evident is this: we want to make as much money as possible – and to do that, no one cares anything but the person that will deliver the alpha returns.
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Would you go for alpha for Nigeria – the most important company in Africa? Who would you hire to lead that company? That is what is at stake in this election. Who would you hire for this big “company” called Nigeria?
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For any leader to succeed, the people you want to lead must first believe in you, with trust, they will support you to succeed. And right now it’s only one candidate that is giving off that aura at scale, and his name is Peter Obi. If the young people are backing you, then the future will be good, because they have the energy, passion and creativity to make things happen.
The ship has since sailed, those who still want to continue living in the past are highly welcome.
I am fully Obidient