VOTING FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA

VOTING FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA

In a few months' time, two hundred million Nigerian citizens will have the opportunity to vote for their next PRESIDENT. I wish every one of them full success in this huge opportunity.

Yes, Nigerians, this is  an opportunity that is granted to you every four years. Make the best use of it, for the sake of your wonderful country. I have lived, resided and worked in it for nearly ten years. I have also traveled over most of its territory, from North to South, and I loved every inch of it.

Now, is your opportunity to make your voice heard all over the 37 States of the Federation and to participate in electing the right leader, in your estimation, for your country. So, think it over carefully to make sure that the person whom you consider to be the best one for your country is elected.

Please, bear in mind a very important consideration. The President you will elect will have to bear a huge and crucial responsibility. During the four next years he will have to decide upon the future of your country. Nigeria, today is at the cross roads. Either it goes on the right way, and everything will be fine for the200 million Nigerians, or, God forbid, it takes the wrong one and only HE knows what will be the outcome.

The direction that your President will take will be influenced by your voting decision. So think carefully, very carefully before making your choice.

Some of you, upon reading these words, may be tempted to ask me: "But, upon which criteria, should I vote?

It would be easy for me to hedge and tell you : "vote according to what your conscience tells you to do.

But I do not wish to play around, and I would rather reply by asking you instead the following:

1. Are you satisfied with the current living conditions in your country?
2. If your frank question to that answer is yes, I would say go ahead and vote the way you see fit.
3. If your answer is either non-committal or an outright NO, I would suggest that you explain to me the reason for your dissatisfaction.
4. Once I receive your explanations, whatever they are, my reply would be the following:

" If you are dissatisfied with some or all of what is going on presently in your country, then the normal thing to do would be to find out "HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER".In such a case, what you should do, BEFORE VOTING, is to ask the candidates, and I assume there will be many, including, for sure, your current President, the following GOLDEN QUESTION:

" What are your proposals to solve our problems, should you be elected, or re-elected President of the Nigerian Federation?" WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?????????????

May I suggest to you that you should insist upon a very detailed, explanatory answer, supported by clear elicit proposals about what the future candidate to the Presidency intend to do.

After seeing his reply, you can try to compare it with the reply of the other candidates to decide upon the one that YOU find the most convincing, because YOU my friend will be part of a decision that will influence the fate of 200 millions of your compatriots.

Yes, my friend, you will be one of the millions of citizens who will contribute to "Build the New Nigeria"

So, be very careful in what decision you will take, and I wish you the BEST OF LUCK!

WHO do you want to vote for? The President who will let you live in the slum shown in the first picture, or the President who will build the community shown in the second picture, below.

I wish you the best, Nigerians. You deserve it.

NIGERIAN BLOGS: INTRODUCTION

9/27/2018

NIGERIAN BLOGS

Dear Readers,

We are starting today a new series of Blogs entitled NIGERIAN BLOGS.

But before we proceed editing let us consider what the average Nigerian readers, for whom these blogs are destined, wish to read about.

1.- A house, a job, and a friendly community
As any human being on earth does, the interest of the average Nigerian is, foremost, to improve his/her living conditions, earn sufficient money to care for his/her family, find a stable and secure job, or seek to work independently. But, in addition to these instinctive reactions, there are also higher ideals and goals. They may want to see their neighbors and their relatives enjoy life the way they would like to do. Man or Woman cannot live alone. They need the company of neighbors. They need to share the good things in life with them, as well as the inconveniences and the troubles.

2.- Are these the current living conditions of the average Nigerian?
As I may have told some of my readers in the past, I have lived permanently some ten years in Nigeria, three of them building, organizing, and managing a clothing manufacturing company in Nigeria, employing 265 workers and producing high quality clothing products that were, for the large part of them, exported to France. The rest of the time I spent it building a hotel for my son, starting it and running it for over three years. I also spent three other years years exporting to the United States and to Europe a large variety of Nigerian products (rubber, columbite and tantalite, sesame seeds, cashew nuts, wood products, and others) So, you can be sure that during these ten years I knew what my colleagues and my employees were thinking, feeling, and seeking during this period. I visited the homes of many of them, and saw the conditions they were living in and what they would have loved to possess, but could not afford to do so.

3.- What did these Nigerians seek more than anything else?
Let me answer this question with one word: a HOME! But not simply a HOME, they all wanted a HOME that they could call their own. Here, someone is bound to ask me: "But, these persons, did not live in homes?" No, my friends, most of them were living in rented houses under the wrong living conditions, and paying relatively high rents. But all this was nothing compared to the feeling that most of them were living under the threat of being evicted at any time, particularly if they delayed paying the exorbitant rents they were charged for extremely unsatisfactory living conditions.
Let me ask you one question my friends: Under such conditions, how can one expect that worker to work efficiently and produce the right quality products? I will not mention the matter of transport. I shall never forget the day when my old storekeeper happened to arrive 15 minutes later to work. When I remonstrated the fact,  he told me that he lived in a far away village and had to change over three buses and start up at 7 in the morning, in order to be at 9 am at work, every day. I checked upon all these facts and found them to be correct.

4.- How can one satisfy the basic needs that I have outlined above?
In my next publication I shall try to describe, as clearly as possible, HOW one can address all these problems, and what would be the advantages to the employers, but even more importantly, and ultimately to NIGERIA?