 Welcome to The Advocate on Plus TV Africa where we'll discuss thought-provoking topics in an atmosphere of seriousness, decisiveness, and laughter. Here we call a spade a spade as usual. Today I'm going to be talking about how we can fix up our values as we approach 2023 elections. Elijah points out the lack of preparations for a presidential experience and Tulumoyon is saying that owning a PVC cannot be enough if you don't vote. So sit back and after this break we're going to be here to dissect it all. Just stay with us. Let's fix up our values. As recently conversing with my friend around the whole frenzy going on in the political sphere of Nigeria, she was really disappointed with the way our leaders in the political space are piloting the affairs of Nigeria. It's not rocket science I mean. We've got appropriately skilled resources to deliver the future that Nigeria deserves. I personally believe that they know the technical know-how to get this done. So the big question is why are they not doing this? This is why I'd always keep advocating for rebuilding our value system. The reality here is that the people we have on ground as leaders were once teenagers. What values did they build on? Someone said we deserve the Nigeria we currently have. Well in a word way that's not far from the truth if you think about it. Behavior determines results at any level. If we must create the new results then we must re-engineer our value system which determines behavior at a given level. The leaders that will pilot the affairs of Nigeria in the next 30 to I mean 50 years are probably still in primary schools. What kind of values are we instilling in these young jobs? The problem with having excellent skills is that it could be dangerous when combined with the wrong values. We need to fix our values and it begins right at the family level. So today I'm interestingly asking you know my fellow advocates can we begin to rethink our value system at the very fundamental level? So I'll start with you. What do you think of that? I mean yeah I mean so I think that you have touched on a very important very significant you know very life-changing you know topic because clearly you're not going to go above your value system as a person as a country as a people as a community as anything and the question is the current values that we have where did we get them from? You know I always say you know I always say we give too much credit to our leaders you know on one hand these guys came from among us yeah right and said they didn't fall from heaven okay so where did they get their value system from and wherever they got it from where did those people get it from so we have to do a deep thinking and a deep cleansing sure and ask ourselves you know like you said the leaders of tomorrow you know let's know about leaders of tomorrow hopefully leaders in 30 to 50 years right they're probably still in noise risk and primary school do we have any of those subjects ingrained into a curriculum that talks about values right parents like you said also from the family level you know the parents have in tandem with the schools do they have you know anything that is value-driven because again you must ask yourself if you as a parent have taught yourself good values then the children get to the schools and they teach them something differently then there's there's a bit of a conflict so there must be a general holistic you know present of the situation and then start to ingrain from you know from churches mosque organizations to schools to homes and let's have a value system that we all believe in and start to work towards wow so what do you think I mean in terms of how do you want to think about approaching this rebuilding the value system there's a part where I said um we deserve the Nigerian leaders that we have you know so how can we begin to you know build like a new roadmap in terms of re-engineering value systems and what what can you say around that are you all right we deserve the Nigeria we have now because the quality of leadership we have is a reflection of who the society or what the society has turned into you don't you can't plant a mango tree and expect to reap orange uh from the roots so those leaders in the hems of our of the political our government they are Nigerians the same they live and well amongst us they are a product of the society and the values so if you think them as corrupt or whatever they are it's what is in the society corruption is everywhere yeah it's a truth you go to meet as well some people on the road they are too quick to give bribe to police they're quickly to flaunt order to to break traffic rule and all these things so if we want to talk about value it's taking positive value we start with education a lot of persons are teaching primary and secondary schools they are not there because they really love to teach and because of the situation in the country they just take it as they have really good job and they are not really doing their job very hard and it's not even the curriculum but see we have moral instruction while I was in primary school we did moral instruction did you do it yeah I mean I did it I think it's civic education civic education infuse some things to you too trust me it's not the same thing and it's not the same thing you know there's different between civic education and moral instruction but but if you check this there are two different things if you check the content of the civic education you see some of there's some positive I've gone through their stuff it might not be the same name per se but they have some this is a day the problem is not head knowledge the problem is heart knowledge heart heart response so when you have young persons that are teaching young these people are not qualified to be teachers they just oh there's no job let's just do it they go they don't even teach with their heart anything goes after I'm just here to mark time and make my hand get money and go it goes online that nobody cares they go to the society over monetization of everything you want to go for anything oh how much will you pay me you want to do no nobody's willing to volunteer to do something no this is matters a lot money I want to do things at what cost so cheat someone to gain for financial gain or or safer grand these men's and other things so these are the problems these are the loopholes and that is why we have some persons in government mismanaging government government resources and you are condemning them you can condemn them when you are also like them but let's even pick it from that morning power hasn't it got my friend and you know so guys what do we think this whole debt I mean the delegates that were sent and we know I mean the dollars that roll that shake hands and all of that you know someone asks me a question Victor these delegates know those that would deliver the Nigeria we're looking for why are they you know you know standing behind those people why are they standing behind those giving them you know the money so like what can I mean again it's just it's just very funny like we know but we still would are we going to say that is it a conscious thing right is it a subconscious thing or is it a level of moral decadence that had happened in terms of values is the three of them yeah so I think I think that you I mean pretty much you've answered your own question is it three of them because I mean on one hand the fundamental issue with this you know delicate situation is the system that's been designed once the system is 40 it's very little you can do to beat it you know I stayed up all night to watch that they did it right here you were like to do I sleep and I said you know the truth is you can't change a system you don't understand exactly you know you can't beat the system you don't understand so the first thing is we have to understand how the systems work a lot of people don't even know how those things work to be honest it's first time I'm actually sitting down to watch how the system of you know getting a flag where I walk and if you look at systems already flawed and once the same is flawed there's very little you can do to change it so we must start by we're designing that system or like I was going to advocate for create a third force and you design a different system and when you see the numbers you see that things are possible if you actually look at the numbers of voters and the numbers that these winners actually go home with you find that if it creates a different system you can actually you know disrupt that system you know so it's a systemic issue yeah it's not really a delegate issue it's actually a systemic issue corruption has been systemized and institutionalized in Nigeria and this is a corruption is brodo it's not only we money exchange hands you know many of things you know but my point is looking at that this is what you're talking about delegate these guys they know what they were doing you say so conscious yes so so consciously we're corrupt because they grew up in the corrupt society consciously they made efforts and went there to make sure they get something because in their mind they'll say after all in this election we could chop our own and if you ask or that I may have interacted with other Nigerians there's some few persons I have around they are not they seem not to be interested in politics as if it's a way of being self-righteous or something tell us what's my business of politics to them they are being self-righteous and some other people come for them that I don't care big let me want to do I want to open shop and set my market anyhow we do want to do yeah if you don't try if you don't clean monarchy of Nigeria who else we absolutely do you want it's it's kind of there by any chance I mean it's only we made it sweet so it's very funny to I saw that you know um Tim de Bacare spent um a hundred and a hundred million a hundred million a hundred million and thirty thousand dollars so like what are you saying a hundred million for the form and then thirty thousand thirty million no it's correct it's hold on hold on a hundred million for the form yeah thirty thousand four for the bucket seven he didn't he didn't do what other people were doing and so on a hundred thousand four tickets four tickets doesn't that reflect the values these are young people looking at the money these are young people making jokes I mean it's funny but it reflects the value system so generally I feel like I mean just to take on from what you know like I said I feel that there's a generous sense in which the average Nigerian just feels as if politics is a is a means the highest wealth the highest and connection to that to any politician is just an opportunity for them to also you know harness the opportunity because everything about it um let's know it's going to service because that's what is supposed to be I mean it's a leader or you know someone in government or in governance you should be a leader you should serve you're there to serve however it's been turned upside down if you get the chance to become anything you know from the lowest councilor to chairman to you know house of reps house of assembly you know senator anything that you are in Nigeria most of the time in politics is always an opportunity for you to make money so if you think about that already because that whole there's a perception that has already been set you know it just it once like they say once you know the the use of a thing is not known abuse is imminent it's already we don't understand the idea of of leadership and governance so naturally abuse is what's taking place until people start to understand what leadership is and what governance is then you know we've actually haven't started well the thing is it's unfair for people to price positions in Nigeria and make it worthless by attaching money to it that's why we are saying that the too much monetization of political we know that political parties have to sell their form maybe to generate some source of funds in the party but you have to make it 100 million I said before that is it possible to make um political presidential from almost free but then it's difficult for you to have it if you don't meet some criteria can we do that I mean so what what happens is what I my opinion I think that setting the form at that price already just cuts out a lot of people that's what it does for you yeah yeah I think there's I mean other criteria you know beyond just money that qualifies you you know so does it mean everywhere that can afford 100 million I can then buy some position yeah you know so let's look at how it's done in Sena claims what are Sena claims what are the things that qualify you to aspire for the you know highest position on the land and have a long list of things is trainers you know put and mostly intellectual you know a knowledge-based process you know I mean when they give these guys two minutes to speak clean record you know I mean okay so if you're going to say in two minutes what your plan is for the economy for education for technology for for power for you know renewable energy I mean those are things I expect to be hearing when they give people too many to talk they're just talking crap more or less so it just goes to show you know the quality of people that way and like I said the last time here I said the quality of our candidates actually reflects a lot on us as a people as a people and you know charming on that really cause when so when um when people see failure succeed right they begin to see success as failure exactly so which is this person that has almost next to nothing won so that means I don't need to this is my path of integrity honesty you know being intellectual having a clean record doesn't work in this ecosystem so I need to throw this other path I must have it tracked so that means for me to actually even clean that title I must be well you know I'm bred in the in the art of scheming people in the art of you know laundering money so I let me even start laundering now so that when I get to that level my portfolio in money laundering is robust and and these are the values who are now subconsciously selling which is now destroying the the the policy and I think it's something that we need to really really give yeah that's why I said the last time that we can make this thing almost free but then just like you said the process to get it will be difficult we need to do more as a country all right the future is all we can be but I've not yet become all we can do but I've not yet done all we can have but don't yet possess we need to go back and refix our values if we must create you know a better future for Nigeria and it begins at the family level up next now is Elijah please do stay with us after the break hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates