PFANN · 2018-06-30 · ONE VISION STATEMENT, MISSION STATEMENT & CORE VALUES CORE VALUES Excellence – To promote excellence as a national virtue, in place of the present culture

ElishamaBirthing the New Nigeria:

A Manifesto

The Partnership for a New Nigeria Development Initiative (The Elishama Ideh Campaign)

PFANNPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW NIGERIA

DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

for PRESIDENT 2019

1. VISION STATEMENT, MISSION STATEMENT & CORE VALUES .........................................

2. PREAMBLE .........................................................................................................................................

3. BIODATA OF THE ASPIRANT: DR ELISHAMA IDEH .............................................................

4. THE NEW NIGERIA: CRITICAL ISSUES AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES .................

5. THE MANDATE ................................................................................................................................

a. Institutions ...........................................................................................................................................

b. Infrastructure .......................................................................................................................................

c. �e Macro-economy ............................................................................................................................

d. Health And Primary Education .........................................................................................................

e. Higher Education .................................................................................................................................

f. Goods’ Market E�ciency .....................................................................................................................

g. Labour Market E�ciency ...................................................................................................................

h. Financial Market Development .........................................................................................................

i. Technological Readiness .....................................................................................................................

j. Market Size ..........................................................................................................................................

k. Business Sophistication .......................................................................................................................

l. Innovation ...........................................................................................................................................

m. Youth And Sports ................................................................................................................................

n. Tourism ................................................................................................................................................

o. Disability And Inclusion ....................................................................................................................

6. RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................................................

7. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................................

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�is manifesto was authored by Princess Juliet Binitie

Richard MammahAustin Inyang

Tomide OlukuadeUrionu Ngozichukwuka.

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VISION STATEMENT, MISSION STATEMENT & CORE VALUES

CORE VALUES Excellence – To promote excellence as a national virtue, in place of the present culture of mediocrity

Love – To promote unity that is built on love for one another based on a shared vision

Integrity – To create an environment where integrity thrives and the rule of law is guaranteed

Sustainable – To promote a culture of sustainability that translates to integrated national development

Harmonious – To pull into a cohesive frame the energies of our diversity for the common good of all

Adaptable – To constantly adapt to changing times and trends, but holding �rmly to timeless values

Merciful – To demonstrate compassion for society’s weakest and vulnerable members through a focus on poverty alleviation

Achievable – To create a society where individual dreams and aspirations are achievable

Inclusive – To encourage the emergence of an inclusive nation where no Nigerian is le� behind in her national plan

Dependable – To activate and restore a strong reliance on governmental systems and structures to drive national development and prosperity

Ethnic – To develop Afro-centric solutions towards meeting local needs and raising the bar of our global relevance as a nation

Honour – To restore the honour and dignity of our nation among citizens and in the global arena

VISION STATEMENT

To build a secure social democratic nation that is inclusive, with justice and fairness based on the values of meritocracy, integrity, patriotism and unity; and to promote an industrialized,

clean and green environment for the individual, and national prosperity for all.

MISSION STATEMENT

To create a fair, sustainable, uni�ed, multi-religious, multi-cultural and productive First World nation with a globally competitive economy for the bene�t of all Nigerians and Africans.


PREAMBLE

T W O

Nigeria’s continuous decline in global competitiveness and her progressively falling Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in comparison with nations with whom she began her developmental journey in the 60s is a dismal reality and a national emergency.

Nigeria’s continuous decline in global competi-tiveness and her progressively falling Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in compari-son with nations with whom she began her developmental journey in the 1960s is a dismal reality and a national emergency. In 1965, Nige-ria’s GDP per capita was $117, while that of South Korea was $108. At present, South Korea’s GDP per capita stands at approximately $30, 000 while Nigeria’s stands at a mere $1,994. �is is re�ective of visionless leadership which has put the nation on a downward developmental spiral and hobbled our advancement towards achieving national prosperity; in stark contradiction to our enor-mous socio-economic potentials. Brazil is a second example. In spite of her equally huge population, the South American nation’s GDP per capita stood at $9, 895 in 2017. In recent years, she has improved her economy tremendously, leaving countries like Nigeria far behind due to various factors which will be addressed in this manifesto.

Nigeria has the tragic track record of not meeting set international developmental goals on which other countries have hinged their great success stories, including China which met and exceeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by

2015. In 1990, China had 375 million people who lived on less than $1 a day; but by 2015, the number of people living on less than $1 a day had decreased signi�cantly to 16 million (an estimated 95.7% reduction). Also, India cut her number of poor people from 462 million in 1990 to 216 million in 2015 (which is a 46.8% reduction). In contrast, the number of poor people in Africa increased from 227 million people in 1990 to 340 million in 2015 (which is a 49.8% increase). �erefore, the excuse of bloated population as a disincentive for development holds no water in the light of these indices.

�e brutal reality is that Nigeria has become the undisputed ‘Poverty Capital of the world.’

�e brutal reality is that Nigeria has become the undisputed ‘Poverty Capital of the world.’ According to the World Poverty Clock, some 10 Nigerians fall into extreme poverty every single minute. Nigeria must now vigorously engage her populace in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 if she must compete globally, having failed to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Of the top 10 African countries on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI); Nigeria is conspicuously missing


This retrogressive trend has to be curtailed, arrested and reversed if we must survive (and succeed) as a nation.

from the list in spite of her natural and human endowments. Contrastingly, countries like Rwanda and Ivory Coast which came out of recent wars sit comfortably on this list.

�is manifesto also presents a clear road-map to Nigeria’s economic recovery, sustainable growth, national rejuvenation and global competitiveness. It equally captures most articulately, the thoughts,

It is imperative that a visionary and transformational leadership takes over the reins of a�airs of this nation at all levels to galvanise her to greatness; restore the Independence-era hopes of her people and advance her fullest possibilities as a leading global economic player within the next decade.

In the course of our exploration, this manifesto will make frequent comparisons between Nigeria and South Korea, given the fact that both countries started o� from the same economic pedestal, as well as that, over the years, South Korea has become a global economic force – with Nigeria paradoxically being one of her major export destinations.

vision and pathway for the realisation of this quest to remove the nation from her present quagmire and elevate her to a position of continental and global reckoning. It also brie�y outlines how Nigeria can be put on the path towards meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. If China could come out of poverty within 25 years, thanks to its transformational and visionary leaders, so can Nigeria. Dr. Elishama Ideh is undoubtedly passionate and committed to the rebirth of our nation and to lead this process of national transformation.

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BIODATA OF THE ASPIRANT:DR. ELISHAMA IDEH

T H R E E

Dr. Elishama Rosemary Ideh was born in

Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital in

1964. Her father was an officer in the

Nigerian police, while her mother was a

businesswoman.

Both parents hailed from the community

of Ewohinmi in Esan South East Local

Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria.

She had her early education at the

legendary Mayflower Primary School in

Ikenne, Ogun State, and at the Federal

Government Girls School (FGGC), Onitsha,

Anambra State.

She thereafter left for the United States,

where she enrolled at Bowie State College

in Maryland for a degree course in Mass

Communications.

On her return to Nigeria, she ventured into the challenging but exciting world of real estate. Armed with her American experience, her sagacity and innovative business acumen were soon rewarded with outstanding success. She focused her trade on low income traders and market people who ordinarily could not a�ord shops in upscale or medium-income locations. For example, she built low-cost shopping complexes for the disadvantaged in the Ogba business axis in Ikeja LGA of Lagos State, as well as upgrading part of the Ogba Retail Market into an ultra-modern business hub, a development which has gone a long way to enhance the economic capacity of market people (especially

women) in that locality. �is engagement with low income women and families in the area of a�ordable space – and economic empowerment – was the seed that has over the years grown into the philanthropic movement for which she is known today.

She later ventured into the oil and gas business, achieving further success in this very challenging sector as well.

But even in the midst of this high-�ying business pro�le, Dr. Ideh had by this time come to realize that her true calling was more in the socio-spiritual sphere – an area in which she


could more fully invest in people and help them actualize their potentials, restore their humanity and dignity, and set them on the path to their God-ordained destinies. It was then that she resolved to become a change agent and a positive force in society, to impact lives, and to help transform her community as well as both her physical and sociological environments.

In her quest to actualize her burden for social mobilization and empowerment,Dr. Ideh founded Christ the Ever-Present Ministry (CTEM) and the Elishama Ideh Ministries. Both are faith-based humanitarian organizations formed to support, strengthen and rehabilitate lives - especially among vulnerable groups such as widows, orphans and the destitute.

Her activities through these organizations have been instrumental to the creation of numerous opportunities in the areas of education, skill acquisition and vocational training and entrepreneurship for vulnerable groups, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Lagos and other cities and communities across Nigeria. Her organizations have also provided mentoring, counseling, shelter and business support for countless individuals and families in these areas.

�is vital role by Dr. Ideh in social reengineering and the repairing of broken lives, hopes and dreams has not gone unnoticed by relevant stakeholders in the physical and spiritual betterment of society. She was honored with the award of an honorary Doctor of Mission degree by the Freedom Bible College of Holmes School of the Bible in the United States, as well as a Certi�cate from the International Executive Leadership Course (1-CEU 120) of the University of Sounkd Doctrine, also in the USA. Over the years, as her pro�le metamorphosed

into that of a veritable voice for the voiceless, her concern for su�ering humanity and her passion for empowerment has grown into a deeper concern for the state of her country as a whole, and a passionate desire for far-reaching and fundamental change in her nation. �e contract of obligations, responsibilities and rights between the government and the people, and especially the role of government providing for the people's welfare and security, is one she feels has not been properly consummated – hence the need for the awakening of a new consciousness on the part of all stakeholders in the Nigerian enterprise in the quest for national rebirth.

To this end, Dr. Elishama Ideh set up the Partnership for a New Nigeria (PFANN) a social advocacy group aimed at promoting this rebirth by restructuring both the polity and it's institutions on one hand, and the attitude of Nigerians (leaders and led alike) towards building a culture of patriotism and a stronger sense of civic duty on the other, not just to the society and the nation, but to our neighbors as well – especially to the less-privileged.

In addition to the aforementioned honorary doctorate degree, Dr. Ideh is the proud recipient of numerous local and international laurels, among which are: - �e African Leaders of Integrity award- Time news Award- African Women Stars Award for Excellence- Mercy International Award- Africa International Achievers Merit Award- 2nd Lolem Distinguished Merit Award- Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria Award- Distinguished Service Award- African Youth Global Network Award- Nelson Mandela Pan African Exemplary Leadership Award- Ufuk Dialogue Award- Rotary Omole Ojodu Philanthropic Service Award

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a combination of attributes which complements her boundless energy, her razor-sharp intelligence, her audacity in the face of formidable odds, her passion for people, her un�inching focus on what really matters, and her love for her country, a patriotism which sees all Nigerians, whatever their background, as members of one national family and one commonwealth.

Elishama sees a Nigeria whose colorful and dynamic cultural diversity is a potent source of strength and a catalyst for greatness. She envisions a strong socio-political entity built on strong institutions in which the citizenry invest their con�dence, strong institutions which engender in the people a strong sense of patriotism, in our journey towards Nigeria's evolution into a united, just and prosperous nation.

Elishama sees her public stewardship as a natural extension of her spiritual service to her Creator and Source. Her work is a vital aspect of her worship, and her service to her fellowmen is an extension of her service to God. She seeks to spread hope among Nigerians, based on her belief in the Nigerian enterprise, and in the capacity of the Nigerian youth to achieve great things, given the right environment and the right opportunities for self actualization and national greatness. As her legacy, Dr. Elishama Ideh seeks to bequeath to future generations a nation, and a society whose wealth (both material and social) is built on the principle of SHARED values, SHARED vision, SHARED responsibility, and SHARED bene�ts.

Known by her teeming admirers simply as Elishama, Dr. Ideh is a simple, down to earth and graceful woman –

We present to you, Nigeria’s leader for this hour: Dr

Elishama Ideh

THE NEW NIGERIA: CRITICAL ISSUES AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

F O U R

1. To create a dynamic; multi-level, qualitative, fair and competitive educational system that spans all levels of education and is relevant to the needs of the nation, ensuring that no child is le� behind, while bridging the gaps in education.

2. To create a national orientation framework that creates the excellent patriotic Nigerian of our dream, devoid of corruption and tribalism and to raise the leadership capability of Nigerians.

3. To create a robust economy that will create jobs for all at various levels and pay fair wages while emphasising the dignity of labour and production.

4. To ensure that the oil and gas sector becomes more dynamic and productive using a multi- level system to re�ne, industrialise and produce all the derivatives of petroleum for maximum economic advantage.

5. To revolutionise and industrialise our agricultural sector using a multi-level technological approach to produce, preserve and process our agro-products to the highest levels; and to enhance production for internal consumption and for export.

6. To design world-class security architecture that is robust, professional, comprehensive, inclusive, relevant and indigenous and which would secure lives, property and the borders of Nigeria for her people and residents. �is should incorporate a programme to ensure the return of all Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, to their original homes.

7. To revamp, redesign and improve our tourism industry as a vehicle for national wealth and job creation and which is also in tandem with global best practices. To make Nigeria a leading tourist destination in the world and create a secure and vibrant hospitality industry.

8. To create an environment that promotes maximum productivity; embraces diversity; and encourages individual and national prosperity.


9. To urgently design a system to bridge the persisting national infrastructural de�cit and overhaul the unsustainable framework that created it; to open up the Nigerian countryside through massive road development projects; to empower states to take responsibility for the roads within their territories and build their state transport infrastructure; with the Federal Government focusing on inter-state roads and massive but cost-e�ective air, water and railway systems that meet international standards in order to bridge the enormous infrastructural gaps by Year 2030.

10. To design an indigenous, a�ordable and accessible national housing system with the aid of competent indigenous professionals and reliable development partners.

11. To create an advanced, sustainable, inclusive, competitive, equipped, professionally standardized and indigenous health care system that is a�ordable, accessible and e�ective.

12. To design a comprehensive energy system that will provide all Nigerians with access to multi-level energy, and using all available means.

13. To create a fair and even society where everyone has equal access to justice, and to redesign the judicial system to be more e�ective, functional, accessible and prompt.

14. To create a framework for the review and renewal of the Nigerian Constitution to represent and bene�t all regions, people, tribes and creeds without favour or bias. �e Constitution must protect and defend the rights of all Nigerians and residents in the country, as well as punish corruption, terrorism and other social vices. Lady Justice’s blindfold must be thickened to create a society that is just and fair for all.

15. To create an indigenous, excellent and dynamic media and community system that promotes the vision and values of Nigeria; to create a uni�ed, fair and just society devoid of religious extremism, tribal wars, terrorism, corruption and poverty.

16. To design an excellent, comprehensive and dynamic civil service system devoid of excessive bureaucracy and strengthen our institutions to function optimally with globally competitive international standards.

17. To create a strong, competent and competitive private sector that ful�ls the aspirations of the Nigerian vision and raises the standard of excellence to compete globally while ensuring a level playing �eld for all.

18. To increase Nigeria’s PPP & GDP per capita by means of a dynamic, accessible, competitive and excellent �nancial and e-government system that accelerates growth, productivity and prosperity for Nigerians and all residents; and to propel Nigeria into the world’s top 10 economies by 2030.

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19. To create a robust, sophisticated and accessible �nancial system that considers all strata of society and encourages everyone to achieve the Nigerian Dream of prosperity in all aspects of human life and endeavour.

20. To create an environment that will attract foreign and local direct investment, and expedite the return of Nigerians in the Diaspora to contribute to the building of an excellent nation and society.

21. To design a Para-military service corps to raise a disciplined citizenry with disciplined thoughts, and capable of carrying out disciplined actions from an adolescent age.

22. To design a prison system that rehabilitates o�enders and punishes criminals in a fair, timely and e�cient manner in keeping with the demands of justice.

23. To create an environment where industries will thrive and attract investors to create excellent jobs for Nigerians and technical knowledge transfer, especially for the youth.

24. To strengthen a robust, immersive and multi-level technological framework and ICT system that drives innovation, productivity, wealth creation and national development; to bridge the gaps in our educational institutions and accelerate processing, productive and creative activities; and to use ICT to bridge the learning gaps to reduce the high incidence of illiteracy and out-of-school children.

25. To review, re-evaluate and reshape our trade agreements and laws to create credible partners in the building of the Nigeria of our dreams.

26. Revamp the sports sector to make it fair, competitive and of international standard; to raise a new generation of champions and laureates for Nigeria; and to use sports to unify the nation, create wealth and encourage the best aspirations of all her people.

27. To review, revise and improve our electoral process and digitalize the system to remove corruption and rigging, thereby increasing the trust of the people in the process.

28. To improve the engagement of civil society groups to improve the lives of Nigerians and the Nigeria brand while protecting the country and her strategic interests from global assaults.

29. To re-engineer our traditional chie�aincy systems to contribute positively to Nigeria and not be the bedrock and citadel for corruption, con�ict and occultism.

30. To �ght for gender equality and provide sustainable solutions to the girl-child crisis including early marriage, child abuse and rape.



31. To protect the family institution and to ensure the rights and obligations of families; to support family structure systems to ensure that the standards of the family institution are protected from 21st century assaults on the institution.

32. To protect Nigeria’s unborn children and design better systems for adoption, surrogacy and orphanages to protect the children’s future and prevent the shedding of innocent blood.

33. To create an enabling environment that will protect the rights and the dignity of persons living with disability; to provide parents and guardians with adequate �nancial support to cater for their wards; and to build a nation focused on total inclusion of persons living with disability in all areas of development.

34. To work strategically with other African nations to boost trade agreements and to create multi-level trade integration opportunities across the continent; and to become productive rather than consumer nations.

35. To set in motion the path to becoming a Top 10 competitive economy in Africa in 5 years; and to become the African hub for multinational trade and commerce by 2025, and one of the Top 10 economies in the world by 2030.

36. To raise a one-million-man elite, highly-equipped, dynamic, intelligent and patriotic military within the next decade; to revamp and upgrade the entire military infrastructure to ensure constant battle-readiness.

37. To build a society where the dignity of the elderly is preserved.

38. To build an enabling environment for sustainable development in the creative industries.

39. To design and build a dynamic 21st century social security system for all Nigerians and to address population growth with proactive and e�cient national planning that is sustainable, competitive and transformational.



THE MANDATE

F I V E

�e 12 Pillars of the Global Competitive Index (GCI) as they a�ect Nigeria’s developmental pro�le can no longer be ignored, and Nigeria can no longer lag behind other nations in respect of meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Developmental Goals by 2030. We will no longer be looked upon as a negligent �ird World nation destined for the ignoble distinction of becoming the World Capital of Extreme Poverty. To this end, the serious business of governance can no longer be le� in the hands of people without vision, compassion, empathy or the capacity to li� this nation to lo�y heights for the bene�t of all Nigerians. �e following are the key pillars that will guide Nigeria’s march to global competitiveness in socio-economic development in the 21st Century:



�e Partnership for a New Nigeria Development Initiative (�e Elishama Ideh Campaign) is pre-pared to take Nigeria to the next level of national development and greatness, and to develop a strategic direction for the next ��y years that will sustain this development; to revamp the econo-my; and to renew the hopes and aspirations of our people in the Nigerian dream in an environment of Shared Vision, Shared Values and Shared

Wealth-Creating Opportunities For All. Nigeria cannot continue to ignore internationally-accepted developmental benchmarks and expect to be com-petitive on the global stage – or in Africa, for that matter.

One of my major activities at present is the setting up of multi-level �ink Tanks to �nd simple, direct, evidence-based and value-based solutions to bring Nigeria out of this appalling dungeon of repeated under-achievement. �ese �ink Tanks are a critical factor in designing sustainable, e�ective and a�ordable solutions. Every successful nation on the globe today needed just a few committed, compassionate and courageous people to change their narratives, perceptions and values in order to transform their respective societies. �is we can and must do as we march forward to birth an e�cient, e�ective and encouraging environment for the prosperity of all our people.


a. INSTITUTIONS

Over the years, Nigeria has su�ered from weak institutions – a phenomenon which began with the breakdown of the once excellent civil service that she had enjoyed from the 60s to the mid-70s. �e country’s institutional systems have been poorly managed ever since, with the result that corruption today has situated Nigeria’s institutions at the 125th position out of 137 economies on the Global Competitiveness Index, GCI while Ghanaian and Rwandan institutions are positioned at the 59th and 16th positions respectively, with South Korean institutions placed at the 58th position.

�e GCI Report for 2017-18, which places Nigeria at the 125th out of 137 countries, show a move up two places from her previous position (127th out of 144 economies) in the 2016-17 rankings. �is move in the rankings however loses its signi�cance when measured against the country’s consistently falling scores every year since 2012 – and, of course, the slight reduction in the number of countries assessed in the 2017-2018 Report. In spite of the move up, Nigeria’s macroeconomic conditions are actually worsening (122nd, down 14 places), in�ation (which places her at 131st) is quite high at 15.7%, and its budget de�cit (at 98th) has reached 4.4%. Nigerian institutions are still very fragile (125th, down 7 places), a situation which tends to add uncertainty to the business environment. We simply can no longer continue on this trajectory.

SOLUTION

By building strong institutions with established frameworks, we will determine our legal and administra-tive structure within which individuals, �rms, and governments can interact, transact business and generate wealth for Nigeria. �e mediocrity we have tolerated and celebrated at the expense of meritoc-racy in our institutions over the years will be frontally addressed and halted under my administration. A merit-based quota system will be the only focus of our governance model in Nigeria. Every region must o�er her best talents and brains to serve the overall interest of Nigeria. To use a football parlance, Nigeria will henceforth play with her ‘First Eleven’.

In addition, the National Orientation Agency under our leadership will be given the opportunity to ingrain high ethical standards, transform mind-sets and create the spirit of patriotism with all necessary tools, including infusing the new mental process we shall inculcate into our national educational curric-ulum to give our people (especially our youths) a sense of national pride, and based on shared values and shared wealth according to their respective capacities and investments in time and energy. We will create e�cient institutions, eliminate corruption and ensure that the ‘ease of doing business’ scenario in Nigeria is no longer as complex and tortuous as it is today, and transactions are done in a safe, viable and trans-parent business environment. �e Sustainable Development Goals must be our focus in order to boost con�dence in our public and private institutions and systems through multi-level approaches as we join the rest of the international world in Transforming our World by 2030. We will do so by transforming our institutions, hence the establishment of the aforementioned �ink Tanks to address the imperative of working out sustainable solutions for our many challenges.

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b. INFRASTRUCTURE

In an article titled, ‘Bridging the Infrastructure Investment Gap,’ which was published in the February 2018 issue of the in�uential Forbes Africa magazine, the African Development Bank, AfDB Director-General for East Africa, Gabriel Negatu, wrote; “�e direction of investment in infrastructure is the right one, but the question is how fast you can accelerate it. �is is a function of politics, policy and �nance, among other considerations….Infrastructure is a big enabler. It is not so much an end in itself, but without it, you cannot have meaningful economic growth.”

Nigeria’s infrastructure de�cit is huge and multi-faceted – and it ranges from the lack of electricity to inadequate means of transportation with which to deliver goods and services in an e�cient and timely manner. Her position on the global infrastructure scale is 132nd out of 137 national economies surveyed in the 2017-2018 GCI charts. �is unenviable pro�le can be attributed to the following negative factors: �e quality of our roads (placed at 127th out of 137); the quality of railroad infrastructure (positioned at 97th); the quality of port infrastructure (at 116th); quality of air transport infrastructure (at 125th); available airline seat kilometres as measured in millions/week (at 66th); quality of electricity supply (at 136th); mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 people (at 117th); and �xed-telephone lines per 100 people (at 134th).

In contrast, South Korea, which was on the same economic pedestal as Nigeria in the 1960s, is today in the 8th position overall globally: the quality of South Korean roads puts the country in the12th position in the world; the quality of her railroad infrastructure (at 7th); quality of port infrastructure (at 23rd); quality of air transport infrastructure (at 13th); available airline seat kilometres, measured in millions per week (at 18th); quality of electricity supply (at 21st); mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 people (at 56th); and �xed-telephone lines per 100 people (at 4th). �ere is no earthly reason for us to continue on the futile path of rejecting the principles and practices of basic e�ciency and still expect to improve Nigeria for the bene�t of our people.

SOLUTION

Corruption has been the bane of infrastructural development in Nigeria because of the weakness of the institutions that back relevant processes and procedures. �e online portal of the in�uential Nigerian daily, PUNCH said on February 13, 2017, “Nigeria needs N9. 47tn in annual investments.” In the same vein, the online portal of the Telegraph newspaper reported on March 13, 2018 that Lagos alone needs an annual outlay of $50b (about N1.8tn) just to bridge her infrastructure gaps. And yet, in this same country, contracts for which huge sums have already been awarded have been arbitrarily cancelled to the detriment of our economy because of corruption and regional sentiments. �at will no longer be the case under this administration.

To this end, Nigeria must review her national policy on infrastructure and allow individual states to assume greater responsibility for their own infrastructural development, while the federal government implements a broader administrative framework to bridge the gap and also attract investment into this



SOLUTION CONT.

sector. We must begin to generate wealth from all sectors of the economy by making them more competitive, by removing excessive regulations, by reducing taxes and by removing the monopolies that have plagued our systems and hindered the development of competitive, sustainable, productive and viable infrastructure. Nigeria’s population, which at almost 200 million is currently the 7th largest in the world, is projected to become the 3rd by 2050. �is exponential growth will place new demands on available infrastructure. �e question is: will Nigeria’s infrastructural development keep pace with this projected growth in population? Will it be able to absorb this population explosion and create wealth at the same time? �e answer lies in the declaration of an infrastructure emergency (which our administration will carry out as soon as we assume o�ce) and a policy thrust designed to open the nation up to quickly train and equip Nigerians to take responsibility for the massive development of the infrastructure sector – thereby bridging the skills gap as far as this sector is concerned, and creating well-paid jobs for Nigerians.



�e macro-economic environment of any entity has to do with the performance, structure, behaviour, and policy-making of its economy as a whole – with particular reference to its GDP, unemployment rate, national income, price indices, and the inter-relations among the di�erent sectors of the economy (as well as regional, national, and global economies). Nigerian policymakers and other stakeholders need to understand the relationship between such factors as national income, output, consumption, unemployment, in�ation, savings, investment, international trade, and international �nance. Nigeria’s macroeconomic environment places her at 112th and this takes into consideration such criteria as the government’s budget balance as a percentage of GDP (in which Nigeria places at 98th in the world); her gross national savings as a percentage of GDP (in which she is 107th); the annual rate of in�ation (at 131st); Government debt as a percentage of GDP (where she is at an alarming 8th in the world); and country credit rating (at 85th). By comparison, South Korea’s macroeconomic position, characterised by low in�ation rates, sits in the 2nd position globally.

�e ‘Giant of Africa’ tag can no longer be a mere rhetorical phrase in reference to Nigeria,a nation with a GDP per capita at a mere $1,994 (compared to South Korea’s $30,000 per capita). We must do better; under my administration, we WILL do better. We will address consistent commodity price �uctuations that have only yielded minimal results. China and India were able to reduce poverty by creating better macroeconomic environments. �ey resolutely moved away from outmoded methods of doing business and built strong institutions to support this shi� in direction. Nigeria must do the same.

c. MACRO-ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT

SOLUTION

�e Global Trends Report of 2015 predicts that the rise in the world’s population will bring with it a heightened demand for food, water and energy. It is no accident that the No. 1 SDG goal is to End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere. To achieve this, the macroeconomic environment cannot be ignored. Our government will replace the current way of doing business in Nigeria (which is characterised by hostility to new ideas and debilitating corruption) for one that operates in a fair and transparent manner. We will discard age-old roadblocks and red tape that only sti�es business opportunities in Nigeria. We will introduce and implement regulations that will neutralise the monopoly of actors in all sectors, and insist on performance e�ciency from all. Our broad-based policy framework will discourage excessive bureaucracy, bizarre regulations, extraneous taxes and the general incompetence in the system. We will come to an understanding with labour unions in both the public and private sectors on ways to make Nigeria open for all who have a stake in her growth. Under my government, Nigeria will evolve into a vibrant and competent production-oriented nation – not just a haven for habitual consumers. Banks must be service-oriented and positioned to champion a competitive macroeconomic environment with attractive incentives. We will work with each Nigerian state willing to look inwards rather than wait for hand-outs from the Federal Government in order to survive and pay salaries. Nigeria must become attractive to investors and local entrepreneurs again, and my administration will make it happen.



d. HEALTH AND PRIMARY EDUCATION

�e fourth pillar of Global Competitiveness �ttingly combines Health and Primary Education (encompassing basic literacy and communication). �is is not a mistake as societies that pay attention to, and excel in these categories have invariably set their populations on a sound baseline footing for further growth and achievement.

A�rming this connection, Sola Ogundipe in an April 3, 2018 Vanguard News online piece wrote: “Health experts have said millions of Nigerians are not living for long or living well as a result of a combination of factors ranging from high burden of illnesses, illiteracy, corruption and poverty,among others.’

Further underscoring the very poor state of a�airs, in the 2017-18 GCI report, Nigeria occupies the 136th position out of 137 nations surveyed in relation to health and education. Broken further down, Nigeria ranks 120th in terms of quality of primary education, and 132nd in primary education enrolment rate.

Emphasising the critical importance of a sound primary education system, on July 6 2015, Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway and Børge Brende, Norway’s Minister of Foreign A�airs in an article on Project Syndicate- a World Opinion page based on the World Economic Forum research and UNICEF stated that: “�e 121 million young people who are out of school today are not only being denied their basic right to education; they are being denied a fair chance to escape poverty, support their families, and develop their communities. �is year, so crucial for global development, we must change this by making education a top priority…we need to intensify e�orts to bring the poorest and hardest to reach children into the education system. Education is a right for everyone. It is a right for girls, just as it is for boys. It is a right for disabled children, just as it is for everyone else. It is a right for the 37 million out-of-school children and youth in countries a�ected by crises and con�icts. Education is a right regardless of where you are born and where you grow up. It is time to ensure that the right is upheld”. For Norway, such talk is not cheap as it is ranked number 8 on the GCI.

�e statistics on the health front are also not cheering. In the area of infant mortality deaths/1,000 live births, Nigeria ranks 133rd; Life expectancy years 133rd; HIV prevalence % adult population, 123rd; Tuberculosis incidence cases 322/100,000 population 125th; Malaria incidence cases 34,233.2/100,000 population and 71st in the world; while almost 50% of Africans living with one form of disability or the other are found in Nigeria even as the country is most shockingly, not one of 33 African nations that has signed and domesticated the continental treaty to take action in solving disability challenges! �e picture that comes out then is of a nation that is severely plagued with massive illiteracy, bad health outcomes and where renegade groups like Boko Haram aberrantly canvas that the same Western education that is being deployed in building Islamic-oriented nations like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan is evil. Sadly, such ideology festers partly because it has found a base in a nation with about the highest rate of out-of-school-children and which continues to have leaders that do not see the critical imperative of taking urgent steps to achieve positive education and health outcomes.



Further compounding the challenge is the fact that thousands of Nigerian professionals who had been born, raised and trained in the country are presently contributing to the achievement of positive health and education outcomes in other nations of the world! We can no longer tolerate this state of a�airs and must now take steps to reset this nation on the right path.

SOLUTION

�e phenomenal losses being su�ered by Nigeria and Nigerians on account of our health and education-al challenges compel a revolutionary approach that is laced with boldness to reform the sector immedi-ately. We must open the space for vigorous standardised competition in the sectors to bring costs down, and innovate on ways of using technology for ensuring accessibility to improved healthcare andprimary education.

We should encourage social entrepreneurs in education and health to step in and do more to bridge the identi�ed gaps, using incentives like tax holidays and CSR initiatives. Also, there is the need to put in place a workable National Health Scheme that can tackle our health issues frontally, and with better economic sense. It should be one where medical savings are stridently encouraged and health education made compulsory across various levels and languages, and using the revamped Youth Corps Scheme to achieve this. Our people must be given a chance to be proud of their nation as one that truly caresfor them.



e. HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING

A�rming once again that we have indeed lost our bearings as a nation on this score, in the 2017-2018 Global Competitiveness Index Report, our ‘1960s course-mate,’ South Korea is ranked number 25 in the Higher Education and Training Pillar, compared to Nigeria which stands at the 116th position.

When we look into the speci�c sub-sector outcomes, we �nd that Nigeria’s secondary education enrolment has a gross score of 55.7% which puts us at the 112th position; tertiary education enrolment, a gross rate of 10.1% and which places us at the 113th position in the world; quality of the education system is 117th; quality of mathematics and science education is 118th; quality of management schools is 94th; internet access in schools is put at 120th; local availability of specialized training services in the 73rd place and extent of sta� training at the 75th position.

While some of this of course �ows from our poor ranking in the primary education and health pillar, UNESCO further reports that Nigerian universities are inadequately positioned to cater for the teeming population of aspiring and admitted students. In 2016 for example; only 400, 000 students out of the 1.5 million who wrote the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examinations were able to secure places in the nation’s universities and comparable tertiary institutions.

Further compounding the challenge is the abysmally very high teacher gaps as there are no properly functioning policies for the continuous training and improvement of our teachers. �e net result is that students are doing very poorly in the sciences, inadequate attention is placed on the core area of STEM studies, the curriculum is not proactively updated, and you �nd students being trained in disciplines where there are clearly no or inadequate job prospects! For example, far too many students may be reading Business Management relative to the numbers of businesses that the job market is opening up for them to get a chance at managing!

And then there is the core of it all: our budget on education is very poor; and put at less than 8 per cent in 2018 compared to the UNESCO benchmark of 26 per cent. We must urgently re-calibrate the system.

SOLUTION

My administration will upon inception, immediately declare an Education emergency and the Minister for Education must be audacious, quali�ed and patriotically motivated to put reforms in place immediately. �e annual budget on education will be increased and the institutions of education will be thoroughly revamped to ensure that they produce the quality and quantity of graduates needed for our National Development. �rough the massive deployment of technological systems, we will accelerate the rate of learning and bridge the abysmal education gap. We will partner with the international community to help us in bridging this gap quickly too. Moreover, we will request our religious Institutions to use part of their buildings as makeshi� schools and insist that education becomes a priority for all irrespective of region, creed and tribe. �is illiteracy chasm must be bridged, �lled and covered in line with national interest and our developmental goals.



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We will encourage professional skills acquisition and revamp our technical education infrastructure to match global standards at various levels. E-learning will be one of the major ways to bridge the educa-tion gaps at this level, while the provision of vigorous educational infrastructure will be expedited. Above all, a merit-based educational architecture will be encouraged and this would be fundamentally based on experiences, competence and application. Incidents of examination malpractices that have plagued Nigeria through the years will be thoroughly drained from our education system. Cultism will not be tolerated and furthermore, teachers will be encouraged through the institution of merit based systems and also rewarded in accordance with the tangible results that they deliver in the mould of world class graduates.



SOLUTION

�is Goods Market E�ciency challenge is not a mystery that cannot be resolved. Nigeria has been operating a largely skewed pseudo-socialist economy where ‘big government’ principally determines whom it has favoured to play while preventing those it does not favour from playing. �is has to be changed and replaced with an administrative mechanism that would begin with going through the extant business regulations and ‘red tape’ that prevents the achievement of Goods Market E�ciency in the 21st century. We must open up our economy to healthy competition and remove every form of

f. GOODS MARKET EFFICIENCY

Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore in his exceptional book, From �ird World to First World stated the three critical factors that Professor Ray Vernon of the Harvard Business School had pointed out to him would make it possible to move industries into new countries, namely, reliable and cheap air and sea ports; disciplined and trained people to work the machines; and a stable and e�cient government to facilitate the processes for foreign entrepreneurs.

Unlike what Singapore has since turned out to be, Nigeria seems to have an invisible narrow funnel which prevents Goods Market E�ciency. Our air and sea ports are uncompetitive, government institutions remain largely ine�cient, and our educational and skills training de�cit has continued to leave us with a poorly equipped and under-performing workforce. Further, we do not even have enough factories to process our raw materials to the secondary and tertiary levels. Doing business in Nigeria is indeed a yet di�cult and tough preoccupation. We are a consuming nation predominantly and even at that our goods and service e�ciency is not palatable.

Overall, all of these translate into a Goods Market E�ciency position of 96th compared with South Korea in the 24th place and Rwanda at the 37th position.

A further look into the sub-components of our current Goods Market E�ciency positioning would point us to areas where we critically need to build on our competitive advantage. �ese include: intensity of local competition where we now rank at the 70th position; extent of market dominance where we are at number 69; e�ectiveness of anti-monopoly policy at 128th; e�ect of taxation on incentives to invest 43rd; Total tax rate 34.3% pro�ts at 54th; number of procedures to start a business at 104th and length of days/time to start a business at 108th. Others are agricultural policy costs at 72th; prevalence of non-tari� barriers at 36th; trade tari�s 11.2% duty at 115th; prevalence of foreign ownership at 57th; business impact of rules on FDI at 37th; burden of customs procedures at 128th; imports 12.5% GDP at 135th; degree of customer orientation at 115th and buyer sophistication at 79th.

Clearly then, all of the components that make for Goods Market E�ciency and our poor positioning in the world today needs to be drastically improved over the next few years. And it is not that the Nigerian soil cannot be e�cient as the examples of companies like DSTV, MTN and Globacom have already demonstrated in part. However, there is room for more players to build on their levels of competitiveness in this large market.



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monopoly that hinders real growth. �e New Nigeria must therefore come along with a new attitude to competition and the review of our tax laws and regulations that have become outdated, self-defeating and anachronistic. Very clearly, many of our Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved if we do not improve our Goods Market E�ciency remarkably. For example, we need to explore our tourism industry to the highest level possible to create optimal wealth by removing all of the roadblocks that currently hinder e�ciency. �erefore, we will pay strict attention to speci�c areas required to improve our position and not fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, along with atransformed Nigeria.



g. LABOUR MARKET EFFICIENCY

Over the years, the two major industrial unions in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, have fought vigorously for the rights of workers in Nigeria, especially in the public sector, in the face of government ine�ciency and extremely weak institutions. In doing so however, they have o�en appealed to an entitlement mentality in pressing home their demands without a corresponding need to work at promoting e�ciency and meritocracy in their ranks. To play a meaningful role as partners in the actualisation of the New Nigeria, they will have to place renewed emphasis on e�ciency and meritocracy. In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins writes: “No organization can grow consistently faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth and still remain a great company...�e moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, a hiring mistake has been made. �e best people do not need to be managed but to be coached, trained, guided and taught and you put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. Managing problems makes an organization good, but managing opportunities makes an organization GREAT!”

�ese principles also apply to nations. Nigeria’s position in this GCI Pillar is at a rather encouraging 32nd, while South Korea’s is at a relatively lowly 73rd. �is means that Nigeria does have the ability to compete globally if we put our house in order and elect a strong and committed leadership.

Going forward then, Nigeria’s Labour Market E�ciency pro�le should be managed in a new way to create opportunities for a new class of workers. �e GCI explains that the e�ciency and �exibility of the labour market in any economy are critical for ensuring that workers are put to their most e�ective use, and provided with incentives to do their best by putting their best foot forward in the performance of their jobs, and in order to increase their value to their organisations and the nation as a whole. Labour markets must of necessity have the �exibility to move workers from one area of economic activity to another if and when necessary. Nigeria’s GCI rankings at various levels of the Labour Market E�ciency are quite instructive; cooperation in labour-employer relations puts Nigeria at the 130th position in the world; �exibility of wage determination (at 62nd); hiring and �ring practices (at 88th); redundancy costs in relation to weeks of salary (at 112th); e�ect of taxation on incentives to work (at 60th); pay in relation to productivity (at 15th); reliance on professional management (at 39th); the country’s capacity to retain talent (at 29th); the country’s capacity to attract talent (at 42nd); and female participation in the labour force in ratio to men (at 90th).

A number of states in Nigeria are currently unable to pay salaries of public-sector workers, in some cases owing months in arrears and thereby putting these workers and their dependents under severe strain. �e ine�ciencies that have created this situation have bred a swamp of corruption that needs to be urgently drained. We must no longer tolerate a situation in which workers’ salaries are kept in �xed deposit accounts in banks for months on end, just to pro�t the very highly-placed o�cials whose duty it is to ensure their welfare. Apart from causing needless su�ering, this awful practice opens the gates that invite mediocrity and loss of con�dence in public governance among the people. Also, we need to emulate Singapore where salaries are increased when national production increases. It is not increased emotionally but pragmatically with the aid of empirical data.



SOLUTION

�ere is an urgent need to re-organise our labour unions and congresses to re�ect our emphasis on e�ciency and meritocracy. Even as government puts adequate reforms in place for the welfare of all workers, labour unions and their a�liates must push for e�ciency in their ranks. �e civil service system will be drastically overhauled, improved and professionalised to help in the creation of strong institutions. �e long-standing practice of ‘ghost workers’ and incompetence in the system will no longer go unchecked. �e current unacceptable level of laxity, apathy and unpatriotic tendencies amongst workers will be stamped out. We will create a new civil service devoid of corruption, nepotism, tribalism and religious sentiments. With a system in which merit trumps mediocrity and excellence exceeds excuses, Nigeria can and will be a land of dreams and opportunity.

We will institute and constantly review performance-based incentives, and salary and retirement packages in the public sector. State governments will be encouraged to become more innovative in their wealth-generation strategies, with a view to signi�cantly upgrade their Internally Generated Revenue, IGR status. �e retrogressive practice of holding back the developmental pace of any one state by the federal government in order to favour others will not happen under my leadership. All states will be given every latitude they need to develop their natural resources and human potential to the highest levels of performance as we strive together to meet the SDGs benchmarks for a transformed nation by 2030.



h. FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT

�e GCI Report about Financial Market Development summarises this 8th Pillar of competitiveness in the following manner; “�e recent global �nancial and economic crisis has highlighted the central role of a sound and well-functioning �nancial sector for the sustenance of economic activities. An e�cient �nancial sector allocates the resources saved by a nation’s citizens, as well as those entering the economy from abroad, to their most productive uses. It channels resources to those entrepreneurial or investment projects with the highest expected rates of return rather than to the politically connected. A thorough and proper assessment of risk is therefore a key ingredient of a sound �nancial market. Business investment is also critical to productivity. �erefore economies require sophisticated �nancial markets that can make capital available for private-sector investment from such sources as loans from a sound banking sector, well-regulated securities exchanges, venture capital, and other �nancial products. In order to ful�l all those functions, the banking sector needs to be trustworthy and transparent, and—as has been made so clear recently—�nancial markets need appropriate regulation to protect investors and other actors in the economy at large’.

In respect of this Pillar of global competitiveness, Nigeria stands at the 91st position in the world, while Rwanda is at the 34th position. While it is far from ideal, Nigeria’s above-100 ranking nevertheless demonstrates the opportunity she has for drastic improvement to bridge the country’s wealth gap and sustain a corresponding economic growth rate that matches her population growth. It is no secret that access to funds has been one of the critical issues in doing business in the Nigerian environment, not just for small scale businesses, but for large ones as well. Players in the Nigerian environment need access to a smart �nancial service system that will enable the country to become an industrialised nation, one in which the vast majority of Nigerians own their own homes, for example. �is particular reference to the building, construction and real-estate industry is predicated on its pro�le as a golden �nancial opportunity and a wealth-creation machine which, if well regulated and governed, can create the stakeholder mentality in Nigerians.

In recent years, the Nigerian economy has slowed down remarkably, with the result that the purchasing power of a large section of her citizenry has declined tremendously. �anks to this crunch, many business ideas have not seen the light of day, and many factories have been shut down. �is has created an unprecedented economic catastrophe for many Nigerian families. Children are out of school and many organisations are unable to pay timely salaries. �e YouWin programme, which was started by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan and should have been sustained for the national interest, not least because it was creating much-needed employment and was instrumental in meeting a number of the strategic Sustainable Development Goals, was scrapped, ostensibly on grounds other than economic.

�e importance of this critical Pillar in any modern economy cannot be overstated. Nigeria’s ranking on the GCI in this particular area needs to be critically examined, given the size of the country’s market and as a major economy in Africa, and also due to the fact that Nigeria has scored abysmally in this area of competitiveness in comparison with her enormous potential.



�e components of Financial Market Development, and Nigeria’s position in the world are as follows: availability of �nancial services (in which Nigeria ranks at 102nd); a�ordability of �nancial services (at 129th); �nancing through the local equity market (at 48th); ease of access to loans (at 130th); venture capital availability (at 131st); soundness of banks (at 99); regulation of securities exchanges (at 57th); and adherence to the legal rights index 0-10 (7) at 30th.

SOLUTION

Nigeria is blessed with great and globally-renowned �nancial experts. Our government would harness their wealth of experience and expertise by creating permanent �nancial �ink Tanks to study and replace the various �scal and monetary policies that have historically been unfriendly to the aspirations of Nigerian citizens, including the country’s business community, and put our national interest in jeopardy.

A proper population census with accurate demographics is critical for planning, not just for overall development, but also for social security. To this end, the National Planning Commission will be revamped and strengthened towards the proper articulation of the country’s national plans. For too long, planning in Nigeria has been based on assumptions and speculation, a stance characterised by a refusal on the part of policymakers to confront the brutal facts of our current socio-economic reality, even when it is staring them in the face.

�e high rate of illiteracy in Nigeria is an impediment to sustainable growth and wealth creation. Even so, our traditional esusu-type savings culture can be strengthened to remove many from extreme poverty and ful�l the �rst goal of the SDGs, namely an end to extreme poverty by 2030. �e relevant �ink Tank will �nd ways to reduce interest rates and open the nation to competitiveness. Monopoly will not be tolerated, and the legal framework for doing business will be revisited. �e role of public trust will be restored and corruption will be severely punished. We will set up special anti-corruption courts and increase the number of judges for expedited judgments especially on �nancial corruption cases to create an environment of trust and which is designed to attract investors and expand the overall size of the national economy.

We will rigorously scrutinize the entire span of our nation’s potential for wealth creation by decentralising many economic functions that are currently concentrated in Abuja; to this end, we intend to establish regional o�ces for quick local access to Federal Government support and assistance. States will also be encouraged to look inwards while working with the Federal Government to increase their IGRs and banish the current climate of redundancy and ine�ciency in our states.

Under our government, Nigeria will operate a competitive �nancial system which can make housing loans available on a long-term basis and at single-digit interest rates. Student loans will also no longer be accessed by a fortunate, well-connected few, but by all, and through a fair and transparent �nancial



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policy and process. Access to education and training for our youths, especially in courses that are directly connected to national development such as the sciences and mathematics (the bedrock of innovation and technology in any nation) will be on the front-burner. �e creative industries and the leisure and hospitality sectors will also be given incentives such as lower taxes, to create wealth, employ more Nigerians and increase overall productivity.

�is toxic environment, which chokes seeds of growth, rather than make them blossom cannot continue. Our credit ratings will be continually examined even as we seek the best solutions in a progressive fashion to alleviate the burden of our �scal policies on Nigerians, and especially future generations. In the New Nigeria, every naira will be accounted for and the practice of contracts’ in�ation will not be tolerated. �e culture of kickbacks, which over the years has been allowed to fester like a cancer, will be rooted out. �e Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will be revamped; while competent systems and persons will be put in place to ensure that �nancial crimes cases are disposed of in an e�cient and timely manner. �e practice of cases taking almost forever to wind their way through the court system will be a thing of the past. ‘Production, production, production’ will be the mantra of our administration, rather than the current suicidal addiction to consumption.

�e availability and a�ordability of �nancial services will be re-examined to �nd sustainable, simple and multi-level solutions for Nigerians. Basic �nancial education will be infused into the curricula from the primary to the tertiary levels to teach the culture of savings, �nancial intelligence and entrepreneurship. We will look through the current gamut of discretionary powers, push for reforms in this regard, and develop a national culture of savings. Above all, every Nigerian will be made to feel that they have a stake in their nation, thanks to a simple but multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and multi-level �nancial system that will give every Nigerian a fair opportunity to get ahead according to their capacity, instead of the current ad-hoc and short term solutions that have served to continually feed the rampant monsterof corruption.



i. TECHNOLOGICAL READINESS

Technology is a critical accelerator that is being deployed to move goods and service faster than ever before. It is also a catalyst for rapid and holistic economic growth, as well as a crucial building-block for the erection of an edi�ce of lasting, multi-generational prosperity. Although the current level of mobile phone usage among Nigerians is high, our capacity to understand and use the technology that drives connectivity in our institutions and public spaces is still quite weak. Technological readiness, then, is when a society embraces technology easily and people can use new technologies to accomplish their goals, whether at work or at home. Technological readiness drives aspirations – whether personalor societal. Nigeria currently ranks at Number 18 amongst the Top 50 countries by number of smartphone users and penetration, though only 14. 8% of her population has smartphone access. Nigeria has not understood the power in technology to bridge her various gaps and de�cits – be they in education, security, �nancial systems and many other areas of opportunity. For this reason, her contribution to global technological advancement and her level of competitiveness is negligible or marginal at best. Yet, Nigeria needs to be competitive in this pillar in order to increase opportunities for her massive youth population. As already mentioned, mathematics and science are the bedrock for technology and innovation – a fact which, it seems, our policy-makers and decision-makers are yet to grasp, judging by current practices, budget allocations and projections. For this reason, Nigeria is yet to produce the requisite pool of citizens who can produce the knowledge needed to advance her own technology for national development. She currently ranks 118th in Mathematics and Science out of 137 countries on the latest GCI charts, while Singapore ranks No. 1. Why this disparity? Because, in many ways, although these are core subjects in our primary and secondary educational institutions, we have taught our children by rote, discouraging their intellectual curiosity, questioning spirit and creative spontaneity – which is such an essential element in inventiveness and discovery. Our educational system created an environment which has mysti�ed science and mathematics and presented them as di�cult, mysterious and esoteric, and only to be understood by a select few. �is has to change – and sooner rather than later. Our educational practices and methods must demystify mathematics and science. Without technology as an accelerator, Nigeria cannot bridge her education gaps or raise the human capital for technological readiness. She will keep importing technology at an astronomical high cost if she does not embrace technology, let alone o�er the rest of the world an Afrocentric technological solution – as Israel has done for the world.

A look at the factors of technological readiness will show that Nigeria has a lot of work to do, but also that she has an opportunity to leverage on this Pillar of global competitiveness to advance her economy and meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, thanks to her huge market. Our present ranking regarding these factors shows that more needs to be done. �ese factors include; availability of latest technologies (in which the country ranks at 98th); �rm-level technology absorption (at 80th); foreign direct investment and technology transfer (at 82nd); internet users, current at 21. 8% of our total population (at 105th); �xed-broadband internet subscriptions per 100 people (at 133th); internet bandwidth in kb per user (at 109th); and mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 people (at 117th).



Nigeria’s 101th position out of 137 countries in respect to technological readiness is disappointing compared to South Korea and Singapore at the 29th position and 14th respectively. We have the potential to do much more because it is a crucial pillar that has to be gotten right if Nigeria is to bridge her numerous developmental gaps, especially the education and training gaps.

SOLUTION

We will revisit our policies regarding science and technology, and block loopholes slowing down our readiness and advancement. A �ink Tank will be set up to comprise and pool the joint e�orts of Nigeria-based experts and Nigerians in the Diaspora who are interested in harnessing the technological space to design a broad framework that would make our technology more competitive. We will work to advance our technology readiness, expand our �xed-broadband to accommodate e�ective interventions in education, the �nancial system, as well as our tourism, leisure and hospitality industries e�ectiveness through technology. Even more crucially, technology is required to accelerate our security e�ectiveness, including our policing and civil defence apparatus and projects to ensure that no Nigeria is le� unprotected. �rough technology, we will have a broad database to register births and deaths; improve our hospitals; know the exact number of Nigerians at home and abroad. Technology will be used to improve education, bridge the teacher gaps through e�ective e-learning and continuous training, while protecting our national online gateways from global threats and internet fraud. Our election processes will be made more e�ective and transparent to reduce corruption in our voting processes. We will eliminate examination malpractices and open our citizens to the bene�ts of excellent training and education. We will improve our research institutions and increase our internet accessibility and speed. Technology will be at the centre of our government because it is by the wise and e�ective development of technology that Nigeria will speed up the path towards achieving the UN SDGs and to educate the masses on matters of national and global interest. However, technology cannot be e�ective without access to electricity and the battle to supply all of the electricity that Nigerians deserve will be vigorously waged and won by our government.



SOLUTION

Nigeria is poised to be the 3rd largest nation on earth by 2050, a�er China and India. �e target for a transformed world is 2030 according to the Sustainable Development Goals. China with one of the largest populations came out of extreme poverty within a decade and is on the path of replacing America as the largest economy in the world. Today, with Nigeria’s vast population at almost 200 million, we have sadly become the capital of extreme poverty, replacing India. �e factors that will help us improve our competitive edge through market size are domestic market size index, foreign market size index, GDP (PPP) and exports as a percentage of GDP.

Nigeria is currently ranked 21st in the domestic market size index, 54th in the foreign market size index, 23rd in GDP (PPP) and 133rd in exports as a percentage of GDP - whereas South Korea ranks 7th, 27th, 7th and 127th respectively in the above indices.

Population size is either an opportunity for or a threat to a nation depending on whether she has a productive population or just a consuming one. Market size allows a nation to exploit economies of scale and determine how far production can go, especially if the nation is a producing one. Ahead of the penetration of a market with their products, global companies and brands are interested in knowing the potential of the market, especially in relation to her size. Brands like Samsung and DSTV, for instance, know the importance of Nigeria’s market size and are mining it.

Whereas nations with small market sizes use exports to expand their market frontiers to gain advantage over other nations, those with large market sizes, like Nigeria, have a great opportunity to fare far better. But this opportunity must not be taken for granted. Moreover, Nigerians’ taste and passion for a better life is an opportunity for strong competitive edge if she uses her market size as a productive economy with other competitive pillars in full swing. For example, if the potential of this market size is activated with a strong purchasing power, it will propel the Nigerian economy to global competitiveness. �e continued in�ux of global brands into both our telecommunications and creative industries is evidence of our huge market size. Nigeria’s market size is a big competitive edge that has however not been explored to its maximum capacity, for which reason our volume of exports to the world is so low.

SOLUTION

�e current practice where Nigeria’s market size is exploited by outsiders with very scant regard for our national interest can no longer be tolerated. We must do everything to boost our domestic business environment using all means necessary to drive our new national development narrative. Nigeria was ranked 31st in terms of GDP position in the world in 2017 which is a sharp decline from the 24th position recorded in 2015. If we however go ahead to more meaningfully explore this basic size advantage through the development of credible structures, institutions and production chains across all economic levels, the country is poised to be one of the top 10 economies in the world. Nigeria needs a pragmatic and transformational leader like Dr. Elishama Ideh that will take the bull by the horns and leave no stone unturned until this market size becomes our greatest opportunity in real terms. With this size, we can then expand our frontiers more meaningfully across West Africa and indeed all of Africa,

j. MARKET SIZE



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with our goods and services �nding more assured spaces in those markets through strong trade agreements that will maximally project Nigerian national interests even as we lead the infrastructure revolution for Africa in the next decade. �is size will also be deployed as an opportunity to raise a strong security apparatus, and industrialise the market to create employment for our youths by training and retraining our people to achieve all of the SDGs and more.

We must open Nigeria up to global competition and create a stakeholder culture using massive housing projects and long term loan opportunities especially for mortgages from banks. Our market size should serve as a basic platform upon which to build the strong infrastructure apparatus required to open up our business systems to push goods and services to where they are required across Nigeria, Africa and the globe. Critical to our market size exploitation narrative is the need to frontally confront our continuing practice of importing fuel instead of re�ning our petroleum products locally and thus putting a �nal stop to fuel scarcity and �scal irresponsibility. And then, one of the greatest opportunities of all in this area of market size development is the need to explore our abundant agricultural sector opportunities, through moving in massively with agro-industries that are sited close to the points of primary production and agro-markets within and outside Nigeria. �is will increase our national GDP and put more money in the hands of Nigerians and Nigeria. Today, with all of her natural resources and endowments which make her the envy of the world, Africa contributes an abysmal 3% of the World’s GDP. We can no longer be at the back seat of development. �is discussion around the need to improve our economy is one that we can no longer avoid. Intelligent and pragmatic minds will be put in place with implementable processes to take us out of this quagmire.



k. BUSINESS SOPHISTICATION

According to the 2017-2018 GCI charts, South Korea’s business sophistication position in the world is 26th, while Nigeria’s is in the 94th position. Broken further down, the factors of this pillar that makes Nigeria to be so poorly competitive include local supplier quantity at the 64th position; local supplier quality at the 110th position; state of cluster development at the 97th position and nature of competitive advantage at the 125th position. Others are value chain breadth at the 107th position; control of international distribution at the 126th position; production process sophistication at the 118th position; extent of marketing at the 45th position and willingness to delegate authority at the 41st position.

When a nation does not recognise that national productivity and processing value is critical; that nation will never really advance her economy. Years ago, a BusinessDay report noted that Nigeria loses as much as 900% revenue for not processing her cocoa to the desired tertiary levels as chocolates and related sweets. For too long have we taken for granted what we have and continued in the wrong path. �e Middle Belt of Nigeria for instance can become a potential industrial zone for moving our agro-products to their highest level of performance. Oranges alone can have at least three uses (from the rind which is used by pharmaceutical �rms in the production of medicines to the white covering that is used for animal feed and the plum for juices, jams and food processing). �ere are also products like cassava and the palm fruit that are very critical food and cash crops.

Nigeria has encouraged the �ourishing of mediocrity in business for too long and this has sti�ed productivity in the private and public sectors. Many Nigerians have made the e�ort to provide goods and services to the Nigerian society but have found it di�cult to increase their productivity value because of challenges like power supply, road network, technological readiness and the failures in the other pillars. �e World Economic Forum outlines that “business sophistication concerns two elements that are intricately linked: the quality of a country’s overall business networks and the quality of individual �rms’ operations and strategies.” Also of critical consideration are “the quality of a country’s business networks and supporting industries, as measured by the quantity and quality of local suppliers and the extent of their interaction”.

Underscoring the fact that it takes more than the presence of resources to build a vibrant economy is the fact that Venezuela today has more crude oil reserves than any other nation in the world yet their people are su�ering on account of poor leadership. Clearly, business sophistication is an innovation-driven factor and Nigeria has ignored some of the components at her own peril. Today, so many factories have closed down because many of the natural resources are imported at a high dollar rate, while the goods and services are not processed to the highest quality and quantity required. Malaysia took our palm fruits from Edo State to their nation and today, they have become the leading economy in the world in palm production and processing. Palm fruit is a serious cash crop that Nigeria needs to explore beyond making great soups.



SOLUTION

Nigeria cannot solve her unemployment challenges and her low GDP per capita without business sophistication. We need to create an active economy that can give all Nigerians an opportunity for prosperity. My administration will put together a strong economic team that will look into how Nigeria can become an industrialised nation where our goods and services meet global best practices. Every state must become industrialised and process her goods and services to the highest level of performance. �erefore, education and skills acquisition is critical to the advancement of our nation. �uli Madonsela of the Law faculty at Stellenbosch University and chair of social justice, says: “education is vital for Africa to participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She also stressed education must be delivered with a purpose - learning must be�t the skills required for current and constantly changing world”.

Our educational institutes must have within their curriculum the ability to build creative and innovative capacity. Our business environment can no longer tolerate mediocrity and must quickly embrace meritocracy. We will set up centres for business understanding even at a local level championed by the National Orientation Agency working with the economic think tank and the Presidency to lead the nation into genuine economic recovery, wealth and job creation. It is time for Nigeria to be amongst the top 10 economies by 2030 and my administration will have the audacity to make this happen. We must deal with the mistrust in both the private and public sectors coupled with the national apathy. Electricity must be on the front burner where our current power de�cit must be resolved, using all of the 21st century opportunities that are available to us and led by indigenous business men and women.



l. INNOVATION

�ere are three sub-indices of the Global Competitive Index into which nations are placed according to their current level of development. �e �rst is the Basic requirement sub-index that covers Institutions, Infrastructure, Macroeconomic environment; and Health and Primary Education) which are key for factor-driven economics. �e second is the e�ciency enhancers sub-index (incorporating Higher Education and Training; Goods Market E�ciency, Labour Market E�ciency, Financial Market Development, Technological Readiness and Market Size) which are key for e�ciency-driven economies. �e third is the innovation and sophistication factors sub-index (namely, Business Sophistication and Innovation) which are key for Innovation-driven economies.

Innovation is a key factor in achieving sustainability in economies. Steve Jobs’ famous phrase, ‘Innovate or die,’ has become a mantra in business and professional circles, and rightly so. Innovation is a critical factor for national development and Nigeria’s policymakers must deliberately apply fresh thinking to old and emerging challenges; we must improve our products and services to the highest levels possible for our trade competitiveness and national pride. It is a matter of consternation that there are no Nigerian companies amongst the top 50 most innovative companies in the world. According to the Global Innovation Index, no African county is amongst the top 25 most innovative nations. Innovation thrives with science and mathematics, in which we have done poorly over the years. Nigerians are an innately innovative people but we have neither harnessed this trait in a systematic manner nor have the few who have done so been celebrated by the society. An environment that shows hostility to innovation, science and technology can no longer be allowed to continue.

�ere are Nigerians like Ayokunle Adeniran (a mechanical design engineer based in the United States who developed a ‘NEPA-less’ Iron using reusable gases) and yet their achievements have gone unsung. �ere are Nigerians like Professor Justus Nwaoga of the department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who discovered that the common weed, mimosa pudica had the potential to harness energy from the sun through a compound called “black silicon,” without a gesture of recognition from their nation and its leaders. �ese are just two of countless Nigerians at home and abroad who are not celebrated – a situation which is no inspiration for our youths in search of role models and a sense of direction. And even when, once in a while, a promising technological star like Jelani Aliyu gets invited to play a role in helping to shape part of our national innovation complex, the essential philistine construct in which the overall system is yet wrapped in today, is almost sure to frustrate him.

Sadly then, Nigeria is today ranked in the 112th position in innovation on the Global Competitiveness Index, compared with Singapore and South Korea that are at 9th and 18th positions respectively. As a demonstration of its resourceful leadership and ability to recover from tragedy, Rwanda is at 44th, while Ghana is at 57th. Needless to say, these two African nations are far less endowed than Nigeria. It is time for Nigeria to take the lead in Africa, as far as innovation is concerned, because she has the capacity to achieve this, with time and transformational leadership. �e relevant factors that make up this important pillar, and our relative position in the world in regard to these factors can no longer be ignored: Nigeria’s capacity for innovation places her at 82nd on the index; quality of scienti�c research institutions is at



122nd; company spending on research and development (at 108th); collaboration between universities and industry in R&D (at 133rd); government procurement of advanced technology products (at 100th); availability of scientists and engineers engineers (at 79th); Patent Cooperation Treaty measure in terms of patent applications per one million people (at 111th). Our environment has been hostile to her creative and innovative citizens and has hindered numerous innovations from seeing the light of day.

SOLUTION

Nigeria can no longer remain at the bottom of the innovation index when other nations without natural resources have moved up the ladder. In the �rst year of my administration, we will begin an annual innovation competition of goods and services known as the Presidential Innovation Competition. At the end of the competition, government will invest annually in the top 10 most innovative citizens in partnership with investors. We will encourage the private sector to drive research and development by investing in our universities to enable them become more competitive.

Also, we can no longer ignore the toxicity of our environment that hinders the development of talent and industry in our land. Our people will be given the environment to compete and thrive. Our youth population will be encouraged to use their talents positively in wise and innovative ways that will bring us wealth and pride. Nigerians in the Diaspora should be encouraged to come home and invest in order to improve our nation. We must revamp science and mathematics, and encourage bright students with scholarships. �e curricular foundation for science and maths from primary to secondary schools will be revamped and redesigned to meet the needs of the 21st century and the 4th industrial revolution. Our universities must become centres of research and innovation which will be recognised, encouraged and invested in to create wealth and employment.

Nigeria will review her innovation policy because she is part of the 2015 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which protects innovators and investors. �is will be the beginning of the rebirth of Nigeria where our people’s talents are celebrated.



�e �nal three categories that we are addressing; namely, youth and sports, tourism development and disability and inclusion are ordinarily not identi�ed as separate pillars in the Global Competitiveness Index. However, because we consider them to be quite weighty, worthy of concerted attention, and quite important ‘sustainable development goals,’ SDGs, we are placing focussed attention upon them inthis manifesto.

Over the years, sports has for example, been recognised as a great uni�er and leveller, because it speaks to something intensely human in all of us. �at is why nations and entities have leveraged on sports as an instrument of unity and solidarity based on friendly contest, as well as the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, and a source of revenue generation for the nation. Sadly though, successive governments in Nigeria have failed to make the requisite investment in sports in the areas of youth mobilisation, talent discovery – especially at the grassroots – and the marketing and promotion of sports as a socio-economic phenomenon. Our sporting infrastructure is still rudimentary at best, in spite of our enormous resources, and capacity in terms of coaching and management is still below expected standards. For this reason, Nigeria has consistently recorded less-than-spectacular results in international competitions in comparison with far less endowed countries, including African nations. No wonder, then, that some talented Nigerian sportsmen and women, in their quest to escape the limitations of the Nigerian environment, have ended up winning laurels for other nations, where conditions are more favourable for the actualisation of their potentials.

Equally, the current spike in the rates of juvenile delinquency, youth restiveness, drug addiction and other indicators of social dysfunction has presently assumed a most worrisome proportion. Clearly, a lot of this is tied to the fact that with our demographics shi�ing from largely rural to semi-urban and urban, many of the traditional systems for community support parenting have literally been eroded. As the adage goes, ‘the devil �nds work for the idle mind.’

�is has to change as we cannot as a nation a�ord to lose our present and future bastion of productivity and excellence; our youth.

SOLUTION

Our government will revamp the sports sector to make it fair, competitive and of international standard in terms of coaching, management, techniques, facilities and incentives for high performance. By so doing, we will raise a new generation of stars, champions and laureates for Nigeria. We will tap into the aspirational nature of sports to inspire our youths and give them a sense of mission and direction in life. Sports programmes will be instituted from the earliest stages of our children’s educational journeys – and in some cases, will culminate in the granting of sports scholarships in universities and other institutions of higher learning, as we are motivated by the belief that in our modern world, sporting excellence can be as socially impactful as scholastic excellence. Most importantly, our government, in partnership with the private sector and well-meaning individuals, will use sports to unify the nation, create wealth and encourage the best aspirations of all our people.

m. YOUTH AND SPORTS



SOLUTION

Our government will formulate and implement a comprehensive developmental master-plan to revamp the Nigerian tourism industry as a vehicle for national wealth and job creation, which will enable the country to meet with global standards in the industry. We are determined to develop a vibrant leisure and hospitality industry sta�ed with highly professional, e�cient and thoughtful operatives trained not only to meet the demands of a highly discriminating clientele, but to anticipate these demands in advance. We will also invest in the promotion of our cultural heritage as expressed in periodic festivals and carnivals as a means of projecting Nigeria in a positive light around the world, and we will build both the infrastructure and security systems that supports our quest to make Nigeria the preferred tourist destination in the region and in the world.

n. TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

On its part, tourism is acknowledged as a major revenue earner for many countries in the modern world. �anks to lower air fares and airlines o�ering a diversity of services including previously unreached routes, global interconnectedness, liberalised visa regimes, rising incomes resulting in globally rising middle classes across the globe, and the aggressive promotion of tourist sites and places of interest, tourism has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Tourism, however, does not stand on its own; it is a holistic industry incorporating a multiplicity of inputs such as requisite infrastructure; security; the vibrancy of local cultures; the perception of the destination nation and component communities; and political stability.

Over the years, the Nigerian tourism industry has su�ered from the e�ects of persistent neglect on the part of successive governments. Whatever interventions the private sector has attempted has been thwarted by disincentives such as bureaucratic and regulatory bottlenecks, as well as the lack of infrastructure and support. �e Nigerian elite seem to derive a perverse satisfaction in travelling all over the world just to enjoy tourist experiences that are readily available here in Nigeria, and therefore see no reason to develop our endowments for the bene�t of Nigerians. �is has resulted in the obscurity of potentially world-class tourist sites relative to their counterparts around the world, and the loss of much-needed revenue. �is should not be allowed to continue.



SOLUTION

In government, we would create an enabling environment that will protect the rights and the dignity of persons living with disability. Part of this will be though providing parents and guardians of people living with disabilities with adequate �nancial support to cater for their wards. Overall, the grand policy would be to build a nation focused on total inclusion of persons living with disability in all areas of development.

o. DISABILITY AND INCLUSION

Disability has never made the list of critical government policies in Nigeria. �is is despite the fact that Nigeria is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, CRPD; an international legislation that was inspired to protect the rights of people living with disabilities. E�orts to domesticate this convention in the form of a national disability rights bill have over the past ten years failed to secure presidential assent despite its having passed through the di�erent stages of National Assembly deliberations. Not even the fact that as many as 33 African nations have since put in place disability enactments has been able to move our own leaders through the years into doing what is right by this segment of our society. It is indeed very sad.

In practical terms, this lack of an enabling environment has continued to have an uncomplimentary e�ect on the ability and capacity of Nigerians within this bracket to access basic amenities in the area of health, education and work.

Compounding the problem are socio-cultural perceptions that tend to contribute to the expansion of the challenge.

�is is an unfair state of a�airs and has to be addressed now.

Also, while we recognise the fact that issues of disability and inclusion are not headline GCI pillars, it is however very necessary to underscore the point that in their being core issues on the United Nations SDGs schedule, it is thus imperative that we address them most appropriately.



1. Nigeria must become a centre for prosperity and the achievement of great and lo�y heights. To do this, premium has to be placed on professionalism and encouraging states to explore their resources with the Federal Government as a collaborating partner.

2. �e security of lives and properties is an urgent matter and our security institutions need to be fully re-calibrated and overhauled, complete with modernised systems and apparatus. Additionally, ample care should be taken to demonstrate equity and re�ect true Federal character.

3. �e natural resources of the nation that have been in the hands of a few must be reviewed and opened up to competition.

4. �e new transformational leadership that the nation requires would be hobbled if it does not have a corresponding new National Assembly that is equally driven by a consuming passion to achieve the above vision for Nigeria. All steps must therefore be taken to see to the emergence of a complementary band of patriotic lawmakers in the next convocation of the National Assembly. 5. It is imperative that the next President of Nigeria must not be chosen out of emotions and sentiments but most pragmatically, and in the best interest of Nigerians across board.

6. Securing our pride of place in the global arena is the core driving impulse for my aspiration and it is imperative that measurable, empirical advancements must be attained in record time. Working with a �rm drive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as a complementing determination to make Nigeria optimally competitive, we would give our people a good reason to be proud of their nation once again.

7. Our national educational complex must equally match our de�ned national interest and play its part in our drive to make Nigeria a competitive and most innovative society; using all available tools of technological advancement and ensuring the provision of steady power supply across the nation to enable Nigerians achieve this grand vision in all areas and in a most inclusive way.

8. Our youth population must be cultivated as an opportunity to raise the New Nigerian and African of the 21st century that is not looked upon as corrupt, but as intelligent, sound and competent to compete in the world stage for the glory of God and country.

S I X

RECOMMENDATIONS



Dr. Elishama Ideh in putting together this document, along with her team is a manifestly demonstrating that she is indeed a ready candidate of choice for President. She loves Nigeria, has served her people through thick and thin and is a practising Christian who believes that Nigeria must be run and administered in a fair, just and equitable way, as to bene�t all citizens.

As an aspirant, she is committing herself to the enunciation of policies that will protect all, while patriot-ically driving Nigeria’s national interest at all times. She is therefore very ready to run, and be elected as the 5th President of the 5th Republic of Nigeria.

In the area of vision, she declares that she unequivocally wants a Nigeria where every citizen is a stakeholder and shares the burden of contributing what they can towards the attainment of the Nigerian Dream. She has been prepared over the years for this season and she is ready to take the bull by the horns and as elected president, lead the process of birthing a New Nigeria that is BENEFICIAL, BENEVOLENT and BLESSED.

She is indeed a BREATH OF FRESH AIR that can be safely TRUSTED to achieve these and more. Give her a chance. Support her aspiration which indeed, is your own aspiration for a better, greater Nigeria! #Letsgothere!

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CONCLUSION

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ElishamaElishama

The Partnership for a New Nigeria Development Initiative (The Elishama Ideh Campaign)



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