Gethsemane

One of the beautiful things about Peter Obi is that his supporters are not the kind of people you can intimidate. The energy in this video is extraordinary. Nigeria will definitely be OK in 2027.

The Audacity of Imagination. During a long drive from Manchester with stops in Birmingham NDC Presidential candidate Peter Obi and I visited the recent brainstorming on his manifesto which focused on very audacious interventions and Goals to redeem Nigeria from crippling corruption that has pushed the misery index into red alert. We agreed that besides debilitating corruption and poor leadership hamstringing progress not having bold innovations and tenacity have been in the way of the promise of Nigeria. Declaring states of emergency in Education, Health Care, Food Security and Security as well as power, with special champions appointed to drive high performance as stretch goals. This will be anchored on consequences for not reaching those goals in set time becoming public management tools . Frontal assault on corruption, especially with technology that will prevent Custom Duty and other revenues from flowing into private pockets, could bring in more than 30 trillion Naira a year without increasing taxes to make for a functioning primary healthcare system and the building of one World class hospital in each geopolitical zone within 30 months. A special Diaspora return initiative would enable transforming turn around of the sector. Massive deployment of solar, and wind , in addition to emergency services of turbines on Badges floating down major rivers could quickly raise generated power to 40.000 megawatts through creative financing without borrowing as Egypt and others have done