Towards 2023: Any lessons learnt? - Punch Newspapers

CHOOSE your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all things the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by opportunists who control the fool” – Octavia E. Butler

I am sceptical that Nigerians will do the needful because they are as culpable in the debacle we find the country, as their lead politicians. A lot of the galling issues have been on since the 1980s. Is it the removal of petroleum subsidy or the sale of refineries? Is it the market determining the naira value to the dollar or fixing the value by fiat? Is it on concessions or sale of government assets or privatisation? Has anything changed? Time enough for Nigerians to have resolved these issues.

Have voters’ views changed as regards the value of the naira vis a vis other currencies, especially the dollar? Do voters think the value of the naira can be determined by government pronouncements or by the cancellation of zeros? How would they view a candidate who says he will not only allow the market to determine our naira value but that he would adopt a gradual depreciation to favour non-oil exports? On the other hand, how will voters react to a candidate who says there is really no...

The Nigerian media have important roles to play in bringing intelligence back to electioneering. The media have to help enlighten the card-carrying electorate so they make informed choices rather than sentimental ones. There are loads of empirical data that point to the right way to unlock Nigeria’s potential beyond normal platitudes such as it is corruption holding us back.

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