 President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, P.S. A.N. Mazi Sam Oambua has declared his interest to contest the presidential seat. Oambua said his declaration for the top seat of government has brought to a close the erroneous impression that North-South Eastern Nigerian was showing Sarah's interest and running for the office. He promised to rewrite the story of Nigeria with a vow to make appointments on the basis of geopolitical zones of the country. When I be joined via Zoom by Mazi Sam Oambua, he is the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, P.S. A.N. Good evening. Thank you very much. Good evening. How are you, sir? And very well. Thank you. And you? God is with us. It's interesting you've joined the Rage to Contest for the No. 1 seat of the nation. What inspired your move? Thank you. But before I take your question, let me correct that I am the immediate past President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria. My tenure ended last November, so I have a new President, Professor C. O. O. C. 4. Okay. Apologies for that. We didn't have that information. You're the immediate past President. No problem. Yeah. That's okay. Do you see part of the SQL? Yes. I'm immediate past President. I'm a member of the Nationalization Committee. Oh, I see. Okay. I now understand why that mixup came up. Okay. That's all right. All right. You're the IPP. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay. Well, I want to say that the reason I have decided to join the Raze is because like you and many Nigerians, we have gotten tired of being branded as people who are less intellectually endowed as the rest of the world. We are tired of being put down in the global sphere where each time you look at the global indices, I talk about human development index, I talk about quality of life index, I talk about life expectancy, corruption, perception index. Most of the indices in the world we are put down. We have become a country where 71% of Nigerians are poor and getting deeper in poverty. Corruption remains endemic. We have not gone to become a nation that kills these people, kills these youth, kills these women. We have become a nation of terrorists, bandits, and all kinds of malfecient actors. And we are acting as if we're helpless. You've just announced those who are kidnapped. I passed through the road between Lafayette this afternoon to come to Makodeh. I'm speaking from Makodeh. I use these roads and you just hear what is happening day after day as if we're overwhelmed. Together I have waited for Nigeria to change, I have preached for Nigeria to change, I have campaigned for Nigeria to change, I have retained, I have conversed, I have advocated to go to the point where I feel that I have the key to solve Nigeria's problem, to resolve Nigeria. What's that key? You have the key to solve Nigeria's problem. What's that key? The key is first to unleash Nigeria to create an enabling environment for the proliferation of productive activities. We want to make Nigeria a productive nation where everybody, able and willing, we have a means of productive activity, either you're working for people or people are working for you. We're creating, we're building, we are growing, we are creating value, we are solving problems, we are filling needs, we're exporting, we are getting opportunities for our youth and our men and women to be gainfully employed. That's the primary thing holding Nigeria down. Poverty, we are a nation of 71% poverty, 53% unemployment among the youth. Such a nation cannot be that. The kind of nation we found ourselves, beset with corruption, beset with insecurity, and then we're a nation where there's so much injustice, where people are feeling maligned, where people are feeling cheated, where people are being ignored and mistreated, where some group of people claim that they own the country and the rest of us don't own the country. Some people acquire all the wealth and the rest of us are left at the dregs of society. This society cannot be harmonious and then you're talking about unity. You can't force unity. Every union must be mutually satisfactory. So these are the things that have key, the key to resolve. Because when we resolve poverty, resolve injustice in our nation, insecurity and corruption will quickly disappear and Nigeria will become a good nation. Masi, I'm worried because you just sounded like the rest of those who had governed this nation before. They sounded very convincing like in the past. So how ready are you to take up a political job of this magnitude? A political job is no more difficult than running businesses that we have run. It's no more difficult than coordinating the activities we've done. All you need as a leader is to be able to know and create a vision for our country. We don't have visionary leaders. What is the vision of the country today? Do you know where we're going? We need to fashion a leadership of the visionary, set a vision, provide the resources and the motivation, hire the right people to work with him, sell the vision to the people and push the vision to his conclusion. So not speaking is not the issue. It's look, go back and see our pedigree. What have we done before? Where have we shown competence? Where have we shown character? Where have we shown courage? It is those things that determine your ability to build on a new assignment. Leadership is applicable. If you can lead a good boy scout group and lead them successfully, you can lead a military group successfully, you can lead a nation. The principles of leadership are the same. You must be visionary. You must be able to plan. You must be able to motivate. You must be fair-minded. You must know how to measure work and reward work and motivate work and punish indolence or poor work. We need to state a country where the laws are applicable to the up, to the down, to the point of the rich. We need to create. Yes, sir. So it is not a question of people may speak things up from what is right, it's right. The question is, are you able to do what is right? Masi. Yes, sir. You've spoken very well. Now let's, I want you to do a peek, take a peek, right? Security, poverty, poor power supply, these are some of the problems bedeviling Nigeria. Which one would you address first? Well insecurity is the first because if there's no security, nothing else works. You can't build an economy. You can't build a power plant if the power plant will be vandalized the next day. So security is the first thing. So how would you go about it? Yes, sir. What exactly would you go about? Let me tell you what I'm going to go about. The first issue, sir, let me give you an example. In my community where I come from, in Arochikun, if suddenly women, people are beginning to rape women, if suddenly houses are being broken, if suddenly people going to the market are delayed, do you know what happens? The elders of the community call the leaders, the family heads together, and they sit down in the, with their working sticks in the OB. And everybody says, what do we have seen today is not what we used to see yesterday. What has come, what has overcome us? Is this, is this, is, have the gods decided to fight us or is the problem with us? So they sit down. It's at that point that one man will say, I saw Conquers son, the other day carrying a bunch of plantain with some boys, and I was wondering why they got the plantain for. I saw some, why they were sitting somewhere and they were smoking and planning. Look, this country is owned by people, they are owned by Nigerians. If there is a problem in the country that is intractable, like Mr. President said, in the area of insecurity, we are doing our best, our best is not good enough. As the admission of the president, he needs to call the owners of the country to get and say, how do we collectively solve our problem? They say I'm robbing, not be, not be spirit. I'm robbing a person, every chief, every robber, every bandit has a locality. Get the people together and let them plan with you how to solve your problem. You can be shaking, shaking people's head in the absence. Clearly, you know, all you think the way to solve a problem, throw more ammunition, throw more soldiers.