 Let me say first how very honored I am to be here to celebrate this very special day with you all. And I want to thank in particular the Senator Abhiola Jimman of the Information, as well as the Institute for Peace and Electric Studies of the University of Nevada, for the great honor of chairing this round and also of commissioning this edifice. Just as I said earlier, it is a promise delivered that this building, which the family of our dear father, the late Senator Abhiola Jimman, decided to give us a donation to the Institute of Peace and Electric Studies. And indeed, I'm told that His Excellency Senator Abhiola Jimman, in fact, started a PhD degree course here. I was already on his way to achieving that. But I think that this building that is donated in this honor is a very important one because it establishes the kind of person that is a man of peace, a man who was a great builder. I think that the donation of the building of this fort is particularly important because of what it signifies. So I'd like to congratulate Senator Abhiola Jimman of the Foundation, as well as the family on this great achievement and this very important altruistic gift. I think that this grounding, and I'm sure that the God has been said already, to mark this 77th most humongous birthday of Senator Abhiola Jimman today is a great one indeed. Senator Abhiola Jimman of the Foundation was an extraordinary gift to Abhiola Jimman. Attaining, as you know, early success in the oil and gas industry. Then emerging as an acute politician, Senator of the Federal Republic, and to tell Governor of the first time in the history of the United States, was an accomplished public intellectual and an administrator, a par excellence in his own right. Senator Abhiola Jimman was an exceptional humongous and a natural bridge builder. And we certainly miss his sagacity, his maturity, his wisdom, especially at the time of such dissonance and conflict. We miss his humor and his laughter and his ability to find the comical, even the most difficult situations. He was an exemplary family man, and he loved his wife and children. He loved them so much. I can never forget a joke that he told often about his wife. When he would say that some people said that my wife controls me, then he would say, but I became an executive at the top national office. She was controlling me. And he became an executive senator. She was controlling me. And then the two-term government, she was controlling me. Surely that they come and control me. When he would say, take your money, I will take control of you. Don't tell me she already raised so much control over you. So he was in so many ways, you know, unacceptable, you know. And I cannot tell if you repeated there are so many of them, because of my very, very interactive debate. This roundtable conversation focuses on the pressure of election security and good governance in Nigeria. I believe that the main speaker, Professor Atain Rijeka, and of course the distinguished members, are perhaps the best possible interveners on the South. And I really would have looked forward to hearing from you, but I'm sure I will still have the opportunity of listening to what is left of the conversation. Except to say, I think that all that I would want to say is that man has not yet developed a fairer or more just system of establishing governance than the government of the people by the people for the people. History has demonstrated that it is this system captured in one word, democracy, that guarantees the respect for the right of individuals to choose their leaders. This right of choice is a similar political right, and it's fundamental because that is what separates us in terms of organization from animals for whom might confers the right to leadership. This system of governance guarantees the accountability of the electorate. And as the electorates determine in every electoral cycle by their free choice whether the mandate given was properly utilized. So the major issue is how to ensure that this right of free choice is not defeated or corrupted in any way. Once that right of free choice is violated, the basis of democracy and its product, good governance, is undermined. I'm sure that perhaps some of the conversations that's left will look at this fundamental point. How can we protect the vote? How do we ensure that every vote will count? How do we protect the government of the people by the people for the people? And ensure as Lincoln famously prayed and said, that it does not perish from the face of the earth. I sincere thanks again to all the organizers, especially the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies and the Senator Abhiela, a gym of information. And again, I would be to welcome you up to the round table and enjoy the rest of the afternoon. God bless you.