thank you very much great to be here and
I want to say a big hello to everybody
um this is not my first outing at TEDx
but so let me first of all congratulate
TEDx by Tama because I was at TEDx
London TEDx
Houston some few years back but then
between then and now I haven’t changed
in height average change in complexion
but I was in wearing the cross now I
have a bigger cross which means I have a
much bigger status first of all I think
the whole idea whoever came up with this
idea of what now
couldn’t have been more prophetic the
theme itself is elastic the concept is
quite fascinating I’m very fascinated
because we can talk endlessly about a
concept but as individuals our
communities as nations and literally as
a world concept what now imagine a young
man struggling to get into university
young girl’s problem to get into
university he or she finally gets into
university admits all the difficulties
of Nigeria finally graduates what now
now I’ve got a certificate what next a
boy and a girl fall in love that
desperate to get married they finally do
get married if they after the wedding
what next what now I guess the World Cup
is about to end and when it does end and
somebody lives off the cob we say what
next
what now I think we had a very difficult
time in Nigeria it doesn’t need
repeating it doesn’t it say and indeed
we have to post the question what now
when we close and end the battle with
Boko Haram or against Boko Haram we have
to ask the question what now when we
conclude our elections whether wins or
whoever loses we have to ask the
question what now the question is
service philosophical but is critical
for human survival and for us in Nigeria
let me first of all speak to the issue
you know there used to be a musical
group called Ted world I don’t know
whether they still exist I don’t hear
their music any longer but they used to
sing a song which was actually a very
favorite song of mine it says now that
we found love what are we gonna do we
read the young girl is already dancing
let’s leave it there but yes now we
found independence what are we going to
do with it now we entered militarily
Nigeria what are we going to do
now we’ve entered with full on the heads
man or whatever name may call them what
next
now the question what next also speaks
to history but fundamentally speaks to
vision and it speaks to the vision of
whether it’s an individual or a young
couple that I decided to get married or
a young grad undergraduate who enters
the university what makes simply means
now that I’m in a university I aim to
get a first-class I want to graduate as
the best in my class oh now we finally
got you marry what are we gonna do we
have to make sure that the vows that
brought us together our food filled so
for us as a country we pose the question
for Nigeria what now and unfortunately
for us in Nigeria this is not a question
that our politicians have asked it’s not
a question it’s not a question that the
successive generals who kept staging
crews managed to ask because I they
asked the question we probably would
have been a much better society and a
much better country than we are now
if you listen to the speeches of cupola
tiles from 1966 right through to the
last coup in 1994 stage by general Ibaka
not to talk of the attempted cruise but
every time a cool stage you if you read
the speeches of the coup plotter
you will find that they were always one
written in a hurry and to evidence of an
uncompleted text because almost every
time they staged a coup after they’ve
read the speech they always ended up by
telling us to stay by our radios because
evidently people who have staged a coup
and not yet ready we had to stay by our
radios because perhaps they had a maid
of their man who was going to be head of
state they were not made of the a man
what they want to do for Nigeria the
barometer of their man about who is
going to be in the team and who is not
going to be in the team the result is
death
faltering history of our country and the
father our country continues to
literally remain so severely fractured
speaks to the issue of the vision or
lack of vision of those who have
governed Nigeria not only the military
story is not too different with a
political class from independence still
dead what we’ve had a bunch of people
good people in many respects but
stumbling into power with no text but
absolutely no idea what they’re going to
do with power in part because successive
presidents have always been brought from
somewhere on parachutes to become
presidents of Nigeria and and as you
know our current president the repress
them who Harry himself had said he was
retiring from politics but it was
literally compelled to go back into
politics the result of all this is that
we have a severely as as a severely
fractured nation that is neither good
nor common and every time a government
comes in it proves to be worse than the
one that came before so what now now if
you look at the history of nations and I
just pick three countries first United
States of America by no means not a
perfect society
no society starting to you know for
perfection in public oh we’re human
beings perfection belongs only to God
we as ordinary humans can try to do the
will of God we will stumble we will fall
we will see we will confess will sin
again I will confess so live in itself
for us whether as Christians or Muslims
is an endless tale of apologies
reconciliation and forgiveness Abram
Lincoln became a post-war president in
the United States of America and I think
the best place to look is a speech that
one of the shuttle speeches in history
only 275 words they get this box speech
which was written in 1863 now in the
speech very short speech credit is an
adult speech but more or less Abraham
Lincoln laid the foundation for why
America must become a Democratic Society
the speech open with a quotation from
the 1776 Declaration of Independence
when American said very clearly the
founding fathers we sign on to the
proposition that all men and women are
created equal
uncie Quentin the Gators book speech
focuses on the sacrifices of those who
had already died in the war the speech
was delivered in an environment of
massive devastation copses broken
buildings broken houses broken
infrastructure well then one word that
appears in that speech at least four
times is the word dedication and abiram
Lincoln doesn’t want Americans to pity
those who have given their lives but he
makes the point that from their blood
from their sacrifices a greater nation
must emerge and that we don’t owe the
dead our tears what we all the death in
reality the sacrifice to ensure that the
reasons for why they died that they
didn’t die in vain now we live a brand
Lincoln and look at Mandela about which
stuff was already know after his years
in prison man
Mandela comes out he looks back at the
sacrifices he looks at back at those who
have made the sacrifices he looks back
at what he fought for the NZ was founded
in 1922 and then I came out of prison in
1990 what happened in between what
happened in between is a story of
imprisonment death widows widowers
orphans still of sacrifice and so
Mandela then decided that the best thing
he would do the only legitimate
sacrifice he can make for the people of
South Africa contrary to what some of us
think is not that he decided to do only
one term know it is that he believed it
was important against the backdrop of
all the pain the suffering of those who
are gone before and the sacrifices that
had kept the light of the struggle for
human freedom alive needed to be
rewarded and he rewarded it by insisting
that his victory was not a victory for
black people and that his victory was
not a victory for the oppressed alone
it had to be victory for the victim
cause injustice people say justice a
three-way strip the healthy justice
forbid for the perpetrator justice for
the victim and justice for the larger
society and as a result he decided to
design a template what came to be known
as the rainbow coalition and our rainbow
coalition for Bram Lincoln had to have
the characteristics of a rainbow or the
rainbow suggest to many of all that
thunderstorms heavy rainfalls and Noboru
come the result is the relative peace
and stability that enable South Africa
rather than turning into an ocean of
blood of revenge the nipple turn Africa
to lay a foundation for much more
democratic society because when Mandela
came out of prison on the 11th of
February 1990 I’m sure the question I
asked himself is
now how do I recover the 27 years I’ve
lost what now my wealth and my children
have not seen me
what now I have to go out of my way to
make sure that I lay a foundation that
will ensure that they never suffer again
but Mandela looked beyond himself look
beyond his immediate comfort but he was
definitely not a perfect human being but
everything that happened in South Africa
Denis now so just very clearly there was
a lot of thinking so the critical
question as to what now is to ask the
philosophical question what is my role
what do I want for myself for as an
individual as a family then by extension
as in larger society when people say
their husband is the head of the family
is man is really an economic proposition
there are many households where the fact
where the father is probably and in
fanless or even jobless and the mother
is the one who is earning the money
many might argue that actually we should
be thinking about the mothers or the
ones that actually the woman should be
the head of the household well because
we are Africans because we’re in a
patriarchal society which privileges the
man over the woman acceptable not really
by any stretch of the imagination but
when you talk about the head of the
family you are trying to approximate the
notion that there has to be somebody
with a bit of a vision about what this
family should look like and this is that
vision that fits into what the children
do and what the mother does so the point
is 50 years 60 years after independence
the troubles we had after the Civil War
the text of the speech of mahjongg saga
in 1966 January 15 if you take it I read
it today basically the same story Drago
is talking about corruption talking
about you know
fighting corruption and ending
corruption and making it possible for
ordinary citizens to feel proud to be
Nigeria because he said we have come
we’ve staged this school because we
don’t want anybody who it says it is not
Nigeria to feel inadequate
today 150 years later we’re not the
happiest people on earth I don’t know
what there is inside but war has not
ended blood has not ended
what now to answer their question we
must also think a bit more clearly about
the nature of the injuries that have
been inflicted on this nation it’s not
enough for us to complain about what the
politicians have done or what the
president has done or not done what the
governor has done or not done is not
enough to complain about what the
military did I just make the references
to them when in order to state where we
are well I think what is most important
and most significant is that we need
going forward to think a little bit more
clearly about where are we how are we
hurting now why are we hurting because
every segment of this country is hot
people who are from the South sing well
we are suffering because they’re not
animals have taken over everything
nothing I’ll say well we are suffering
because they soundin has control almost
all the economy the minority say we
complain because the dominant ethnic
groups are the world that are
persecuting us truth of the matter we’re
in this together
we had a hang together we’ll hang
separately by 1989 a historian recorded
who was actually Potter he was very much
involved with the jump examination and
he said that by 1989 only about 8,000 of
the millions of young people sitting for
John wanted to read history and it may
not they verify that history has been
taken out of the legit nigeria
university saleable and other
institutions or at least at a level of
second that you know secondary school
education and prime
school and so on but not being connected
but the fact that perhaps people
realized that fewer and fewer Algerians
were interested in history and I make
the point that it is precisely because
we are not interested in history top to
bottom
that’s why we’ve ended up where we have
ended up you all know the same rhythm
correct the mistakes of history history
has a way of repeating itself we are not
in agreement about any narrative in
Nigeria but clearly every segment of
this country has suffered but we’ve
suffered differently
say we ask what now my immediate answer
is we must come back to the table and
design a coherent history or historical
account of the history of Nigeria anyway
a manner that does not continue to blame
one group on the other the south is will
say we will remember the Afra s always
will say we remember what happened to us
on the operation wait yet the middle
bell will talk about the chief riders
and the endpoint almost endless crisis
the Northeast is the epicenter of
conflict and violence in Nigeria today
they’re not well run tragically I am
Bishop of Socotra and until only last
week the journalists interviewed me
actually as late as last week wanted to
know from me why is it that Cecotto is
so peaceful now we’ve also been baptized
by the violence of the headsman or
criminals whatever you call them the
most part of this country has been left
untouched the question therefore is that
if we are going to move forward we must
move forward together and this is where
leadership then becomes important this
is where vision then becomes important
and I’m I mean very much enamored of the
notion of the TEDx conversations and
I’ve listened to quite a good number of
them I wish I could be as eloquent as a
lot of the young men and young women
that I have listened to what
this does is gives me a lot of hope and
a lot of confidence and that tomorrow is
going to be much better and not because
our economies will grow tomorrow is
going to get better not because I will
have more resources or will the
populations will grow bigger tomorrow is
going to get better not necessarily
because Nigeria’s oil prices will go up
by whatever percentage tomorrow is going
to be better and not by virtue of the
kind of leader that we have in Nigeria
weather is male/female weather is
Christian or Muslim tomorrow’s going to
be better because when I look at the
young people of today across the world I
get a sense that the world would be a
better place and I make the point
because the dynamism the energy the
sheer brilliance the opportunities that
are now available to us so just very
clearly that perhaps we need to stop
taking our attention away from the
notion that we have about leadership an
office in Africa and other parts of the
world is only in Africa largely because
of the lack of development the decayed
infrastructure the intensity of
corruption this is the reason why we
continue to look up to old men young
young and old men who are holding office
and we continue to deceive ourselves
that the future lies in what the
governor’s will do what the president
will do well I’ve got news for you if we
focus on what our politicians are ever
going to do in Nigeria maybe I
exaggerated but I’m convinced that
politics in Nigeria has them as now will
not be a criminal enterprise now the
hostage-taking will not end the
corruption is we’re about to end and
don’t deceive yourself it is the oxygen
that drives everything in my Chilean
life to fight corruption
the only reason and the only way you can
fight corruption is through the kind of
technology that young men and women are
coming up with now corruption is very
functional
you know a lack of morality no I am NOT
going to resolve the problems of
corruption by me immoral excitation this
is what the Holy Quran say this is what
the Holy Bible said no when I run a
theocracy we’re in a democracy so you’re
going to end corruption purely and
simply by innovation technological
innovation which is going to make it
increasingly difficult even for the best
team to be able to succeed unfortunately
for us in Nigeria because the teams are
ahead of us this is precisely the reason
why things are so difficult for us so
the frontiers of the future are
conquerable we had a subject of
imagination so what we are looking for
is not so much the concern of who is
governing us and how they are going to
govern us if you are waiting for the
perfect president or the perfect
governor he’s never gonna come
he’s never gonna happen because as I
said perfection is in the rhythm of the
divine not the human so what now let me
end it’s the story of a little boy doing
very well in school very well when his
result came out to be results to the
father but I looked at the result that
mother looks and says oh my good my god
what happened
you have an average of 80% how come you
got 30% in history young man scratch his
head and said to the father that day I
tried but every question they asked
happened before I was born
now whether Nigeria’s decay started
before you were born or after you are
born a challenge of six in our country
rests with each and every one of us
because the problem started with one
person the solution will have to start
with one person and that person could be
you I bless you and thank you very much
for your attention [Applause]
I want to say a big hello to everybody
um this is not my first outing at TEDx
but so let me first of all congratulate
TEDx by Tama because I was at TEDx
London TEDx
Houston some few years back but then
between then and now I haven’t changed
in height average change in complexion
but I was in wearing the cross now I
have a bigger cross which means I have a
much bigger status first of all I think
the whole idea whoever came up with this
idea of what now
couldn’t have been more prophetic the
theme itself is elastic the concept is
quite fascinating I’m very fascinated
because we can talk endlessly about a
concept but as individuals our
communities as nations and literally as
a world concept what now imagine a young
man struggling to get into university
young girl’s problem to get into
university he or she finally gets into
university admits all the difficulties
of Nigeria finally graduates what now
now I’ve got a certificate what next a
boy and a girl fall in love that
desperate to get married they finally do
get married if they after the wedding
what next what now I guess the World Cup
is about to end and when it does end and
somebody lives off the cob we say what
next
what now I think we had a very difficult
time in Nigeria it doesn’t need
repeating it doesn’t it say and indeed
we have to post the question what now
when we close and end the battle with
Boko Haram or against Boko Haram we have
to ask the question what now when we
conclude our elections whether wins or
whoever loses we have to ask the
question what now the question is
service philosophical but is critical
for human survival and for us in Nigeria
let me first of all speak to the issue
you know there used to be a musical
group called Ted world I don’t know
whether they still exist I don’t hear
their music any longer but they used to
sing a song which was actually a very
favorite song of mine it says now that
we found love what are we gonna do we
read the young girl is already dancing
let’s leave it there but yes now we
found independence what are we going to
do with it now we entered militarily
Nigeria what are we going to do
now we’ve entered with full on the heads
man or whatever name may call them what
next
now the question what next also speaks
to history but fundamentally speaks to
vision and it speaks to the vision of
whether it’s an individual or a young
couple that I decided to get married or
a young grad undergraduate who enters
the university what makes simply means
now that I’m in a university I aim to
get a first-class I want to graduate as
the best in my class oh now we finally
got you marry what are we gonna do we
have to make sure that the vows that
brought us together our food filled so
for us as a country we pose the question
for Nigeria what now and unfortunately
for us in Nigeria this is not a question
that our politicians have asked it’s not
a question it’s not a question that the
successive generals who kept staging
crews managed to ask because I they
asked the question we probably would
have been a much better society and a
much better country than we are now
if you listen to the speeches of cupola
tiles from 1966 right through to the
last coup in 1994 stage by general Ibaka
not to talk of the attempted cruise but
every time a cool stage you if you read
the speeches of the coup plotter
you will find that they were always one
written in a hurry and to evidence of an
uncompleted text because almost every
time they staged a coup after they’ve
read the speech they always ended up by
telling us to stay by our radios because
evidently people who have staged a coup
and not yet ready we had to stay by our
radios because perhaps they had a maid
of their man who was going to be head of
state they were not made of the a man
what they want to do for Nigeria the
barometer of their man about who is
going to be in the team and who is not
going to be in the team the result is
death
faltering history of our country and the
father our country continues to
literally remain so severely fractured
speaks to the issue of the vision or
lack of vision of those who have
governed Nigeria not only the military
story is not too different with a
political class from independence still
dead what we’ve had a bunch of people
good people in many respects but
stumbling into power with no text but
absolutely no idea what they’re going to
do with power in part because successive
presidents have always been brought from
somewhere on parachutes to become
presidents of Nigeria and and as you
know our current president the repress
them who Harry himself had said he was
retiring from politics but it was
literally compelled to go back into
politics the result of all this is that
we have a severely as as a severely
fractured nation that is neither good
nor common and every time a government
comes in it proves to be worse than the
one that came before so what now now if
you look at the history of nations and I
just pick three countries first United
States of America by no means not a
perfect society
no society starting to you know for
perfection in public oh we’re human
beings perfection belongs only to God
we as ordinary humans can try to do the
will of God we will stumble we will fall
we will see we will confess will sin
again I will confess so live in itself
for us whether as Christians or Muslims
is an endless tale of apologies
reconciliation and forgiveness Abram
Lincoln became a post-war president in
the United States of America and I think
the best place to look is a speech that
one of the shuttle speeches in history
only 275 words they get this box speech
which was written in 1863 now in the
speech very short speech credit is an
adult speech but more or less Abraham
Lincoln laid the foundation for why
America must become a Democratic Society
the speech open with a quotation from
the 1776 Declaration of Independence
when American said very clearly the
founding fathers we sign on to the
proposition that all men and women are
created equal
uncie Quentin the Gators book speech
focuses on the sacrifices of those who
had already died in the war the speech
was delivered in an environment of
massive devastation copses broken
buildings broken houses broken
infrastructure well then one word that
appears in that speech at least four
times is the word dedication and abiram
Lincoln doesn’t want Americans to pity
those who have given their lives but he
makes the point that from their blood
from their sacrifices a greater nation
must emerge and that we don’t owe the
dead our tears what we all the death in
reality the sacrifice to ensure that the
reasons for why they died that they
didn’t die in vain now we live a brand
Lincoln and look at Mandela about which
stuff was already know after his years
in prison man
Mandela comes out he looks back at the
sacrifices he looks at back at those who
have made the sacrifices he looks back
at what he fought for the NZ was founded
in 1922 and then I came out of prison in
1990 what happened in between what
happened in between is a story of
imprisonment death widows widowers
orphans still of sacrifice and so
Mandela then decided that the best thing
he would do the only legitimate
sacrifice he can make for the people of
South Africa contrary to what some of us
think is not that he decided to do only
one term know it is that he believed it
was important against the backdrop of
all the pain the suffering of those who
are gone before and the sacrifices that
had kept the light of the struggle for
human freedom alive needed to be
rewarded and he rewarded it by insisting
that his victory was not a victory for
black people and that his victory was
not a victory for the oppressed alone
it had to be victory for the victim
cause injustice people say justice a
three-way strip the healthy justice
forbid for the perpetrator justice for
the victim and justice for the larger
society and as a result he decided to
design a template what came to be known
as the rainbow coalition and our rainbow
coalition for Bram Lincoln had to have
the characteristics of a rainbow or the
rainbow suggest to many of all that
thunderstorms heavy rainfalls and Noboru
come the result is the relative peace
and stability that enable South Africa
rather than turning into an ocean of
blood of revenge the nipple turn Africa
to lay a foundation for much more
democratic society because when Mandela
came out of prison on the 11th of
February 1990 I’m sure the question I
asked himself is
now how do I recover the 27 years I’ve
lost what now my wealth and my children
have not seen me
what now I have to go out of my way to
make sure that I lay a foundation that
will ensure that they never suffer again
but Mandela looked beyond himself look
beyond his immediate comfort but he was
definitely not a perfect human being but
everything that happened in South Africa
Denis now so just very clearly there was
a lot of thinking so the critical
question as to what now is to ask the
philosophical question what is my role
what do I want for myself for as an
individual as a family then by extension
as in larger society when people say
their husband is the head of the family
is man is really an economic proposition
there are many households where the fact
where the father is probably and in
fanless or even jobless and the mother
is the one who is earning the money
many might argue that actually we should
be thinking about the mothers or the
ones that actually the woman should be
the head of the household well because
we are Africans because we’re in a
patriarchal society which privileges the
man over the woman acceptable not really
by any stretch of the imagination but
when you talk about the head of the
family you are trying to approximate the
notion that there has to be somebody
with a bit of a vision about what this
family should look like and this is that
vision that fits into what the children
do and what the mother does so the point
is 50 years 60 years after independence
the troubles we had after the Civil War
the text of the speech of mahjongg saga
in 1966 January 15 if you take it I read
it today basically the same story Drago
is talking about corruption talking
about you know
fighting corruption and ending
corruption and making it possible for
ordinary citizens to feel proud to be
Nigeria because he said we have come
we’ve staged this school because we
don’t want anybody who it says it is not
Nigeria to feel inadequate
today 150 years later we’re not the
happiest people on earth I don’t know
what there is inside but war has not
ended blood has not ended
what now to answer their question we
must also think a bit more clearly about
the nature of the injuries that have
been inflicted on this nation it’s not
enough for us to complain about what the
politicians have done or what the
president has done or not done what the
governor has done or not done is not
enough to complain about what the
military did I just make the references
to them when in order to state where we
are well I think what is most important
and most significant is that we need
going forward to think a little bit more
clearly about where are we how are we
hurting now why are we hurting because
every segment of this country is hot
people who are from the South sing well
we are suffering because they’re not
animals have taken over everything
nothing I’ll say well we are suffering
because they soundin has control almost
all the economy the minority say we
complain because the dominant ethnic
groups are the world that are
persecuting us truth of the matter we’re
in this together
we had a hang together we’ll hang
separately by 1989 a historian recorded
who was actually Potter he was very much
involved with the jump examination and
he said that by 1989 only about 8,000 of
the millions of young people sitting for
John wanted to read history and it may
not they verify that history has been
taken out of the legit nigeria
university saleable and other
institutions or at least at a level of
second that you know secondary school
education and prime
school and so on but not being connected
but the fact that perhaps people
realized that fewer and fewer Algerians
were interested in history and I make
the point that it is precisely because
we are not interested in history top to
bottom
that’s why we’ve ended up where we have
ended up you all know the same rhythm
correct the mistakes of history history
has a way of repeating itself we are not
in agreement about any narrative in
Nigeria but clearly every segment of
this country has suffered but we’ve
suffered differently
say we ask what now my immediate answer
is we must come back to the table and
design a coherent history or historical
account of the history of Nigeria anyway
a manner that does not continue to blame
one group on the other the south is will
say we will remember the Afra s always
will say we remember what happened to us
on the operation wait yet the middle
bell will talk about the chief riders
and the endpoint almost endless crisis
the Northeast is the epicenter of
conflict and violence in Nigeria today
they’re not well run tragically I am
Bishop of Socotra and until only last
week the journalists interviewed me
actually as late as last week wanted to
know from me why is it that Cecotto is
so peaceful now we’ve also been baptized
by the violence of the headsman or
criminals whatever you call them the
most part of this country has been left
untouched the question therefore is that
if we are going to move forward we must
move forward together and this is where
leadership then becomes important this
is where vision then becomes important
and I’m I mean very much enamored of the
notion of the TEDx conversations and
I’ve listened to quite a good number of
them I wish I could be as eloquent as a
lot of the young men and young women
that I have listened to what
this does is gives me a lot of hope and
a lot of confidence and that tomorrow is
going to be much better and not because
our economies will grow tomorrow is
going to get better not because I will
have more resources or will the
populations will grow bigger tomorrow is
going to get better not necessarily
because Nigeria’s oil prices will go up
by whatever percentage tomorrow is going
to be better and not by virtue of the
kind of leader that we have in Nigeria
weather is male/female weather is
Christian or Muslim tomorrow’s going to
be better because when I look at the
young people of today across the world I
get a sense that the world would be a
better place and I make the point
because the dynamism the energy the
sheer brilliance the opportunities that
are now available to us so just very
clearly that perhaps we need to stop
taking our attention away from the
notion that we have about leadership an
office in Africa and other parts of the
world is only in Africa largely because
of the lack of development the decayed
infrastructure the intensity of
corruption this is the reason why we
continue to look up to old men young
young and old men who are holding office
and we continue to deceive ourselves
that the future lies in what the
governor’s will do what the president
will do well I’ve got news for you if we
focus on what our politicians are ever
going to do in Nigeria maybe I
exaggerated but I’m convinced that
politics in Nigeria has them as now will
not be a criminal enterprise now the
hostage-taking will not end the
corruption is we’re about to end and
don’t deceive yourself it is the oxygen
that drives everything in my Chilean
life to fight corruption
the only reason and the only way you can
fight corruption is through the kind of
technology that young men and women are
coming up with now corruption is very
functional
you know a lack of morality no I am NOT
going to resolve the problems of
corruption by me immoral excitation this
is what the Holy Quran say this is what
the Holy Bible said no when I run a
theocracy we’re in a democracy so you’re
going to end corruption purely and
simply by innovation technological
innovation which is going to make it
increasingly difficult even for the best
team to be able to succeed unfortunately
for us in Nigeria because the teams are
ahead of us this is precisely the reason
why things are so difficult for us so
the frontiers of the future are
conquerable we had a subject of
imagination so what we are looking for
is not so much the concern of who is
governing us and how they are going to
govern us if you are waiting for the
perfect president or the perfect
governor he’s never gonna come
he’s never gonna happen because as I
said perfection is in the rhythm of the
divine not the human so what now let me
end it’s the story of a little boy doing
very well in school very well when his
result came out to be results to the
father but I looked at the result that
mother looks and says oh my good my god
what happened
you have an average of 80% how come you
got 30% in history young man scratch his
head and said to the father that day I
tried but every question they asked
happened before I was born
now whether Nigeria’s decay started
before you were born or after you are
born a challenge of six in our country
rests with each and every one of us
because the problem started with one
person the solution will have to start
with one person and that person could be
you I bless you and thank you very much
for your attention [Applause]
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