 First, let me thank the Almighty God for the privilege of life and the opportunity to serve our great country. I also thank a role model and all-time mentor to millions, and to many of us in public service, of course, the chair of this book launch, General Jakubu Gawan, GCFR, former head of state. Thank you for the incredible privilege of your company today, and I'm deeply grateful to you for doing me this honor. Let me also thank former President General Abdul Salam Abu Bakr for the great honor done to me by the very kind comments that he made in the forward to this book. My gratitude also to his Excellency Governor Aminu Tambua, chair of the Governors Forum, who spoke on behalf of their Excellencies Governors of the States, and for his usual support and his kindness all the time. My dear brother, Governor Simon Lalong, thank you, and also my own governor and brother, his Excellency Dapua Beodun MFR. Thank you for being there always. His Excellency Dr. Akabe, representing my brother, his Excellency engineer A. Sule, thank you very much indeed. And my deep gratitude to his Highness Lamedo Sanusi for his solidarity and very generous comments. And I must then thank all the friends and colleagues, the PYU Collective, who spend time and resources to write the chapters of this book in my honor. And I must again here thank Laulua Konde, who has already been a very grateful acknowledged by the Master of Ceremonies, for so ably coordinating the work of the PYU Collective, and for also keeping me informed as to what was going on. I'm very grateful to you, Laulua. I must also thank my dear sister and friend, Jim Amanda, for those wise words and for your gracious and kind comments. What a journey the past eight years have been, and I'm deeply grateful to my team of advisors and assistants and the strong civil service team that supported me these many years. Public service for all of us who love this nation and its peoples unconditionally only terminates when we die. Our country deserves our commitment and service. And I commend you all compatriots in the public service, especially those who are not public servants, social activists, third sector activists as you're sometimes called, for your steadfastness through the years. As we march on towards a new Nigeria, while there might be a lot to depress us, we must not give up. So I want you to take away with you and I want us to leave this event with a paraphrase of what Jim Amanda said a few moments ago, and I quote, we who love this country must not give up because love is persistent, end of quote. So on behalf of Dolly, my dear wife, my family, the OVP team, I thank you all. And I dedicate this book to the people of our country to whom we always owe the duty and responsibility of selfless service. Thank you all very much. God bless you. I must not forget to thank my dear brother, boss Mustafa, who very, very kindly represented the president today. And for those very generous and kind words, thank you very much, the boss.