 Kape diem, making the nation work by living in the moment. The late Thomas S. Monson, a former World War II veteran and American religious leader and the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints once said and I quote, the past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, leave it. The first Kape diem is part of the longer Kape diem Kwame Minimon Tridula Postrio, which is often translated as SISDIDI, puts very little trust in tomorrow, the future. It is not to ignore the future but rather not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you and taking action for the future today. You may want to ask, how does living in the moment make a nation work? Well, the answer is not far-fetched. Look at our situation here in Nigeria, where everyone is talking about the next election. It is not year 2023, we are just in 2022. I even remember a joke on social media where someone said that we should just have 2023 before we come back to 2022, just because of the anxiety over the 2020 general election. Just last month, some officials in the presidency and even the president himself expressed their worries over the legacy of President Mohammed Buhari and the citizen's assessment of his administration. This shows that we are too worried about the future at the expense of the present realities. Now, I don't mean that we should not think and plan for our future as a nation but I'm saying that we should focus more on addressing our current challenges and processes so that we can have a great future as a nation. Some of the issues of interest are insecurity, socioeconomic development, youth drive and development, inclusive governance, infrastructural development, quality education, social welfare, anti-corruption, just to mention but a few. It is important to note that these issues can be addressed by intentional, continuous and collective effort from stakeholders, governments and the entire citizenry. Building a nation is a continuous progression from one administration to another, from one dispensation to another. It is important for us to focus on establishing strong institutions, fair and just policies and laws and constitution over personal interests. When we as a nation is intentional about doing the right things in the present moment, then we have nothing to worry about the future and our legacies because we have created it already. We should focus more on good governance and not just the elections. The future is great for those who are intentional about every moment they spend. Politician here, let me start with you. You know, okay, you call me politician, I'll try to to carry that name. I've always thought that or looked at life as one of my godfathers is of course the next generation. I also am of the belief, you know, we should plan for them adequately, which has been a massive problem we've had in this country. I think one of the things that if you look at Nigeria generally, let me take you back a little bit. So sometime in the 70s, we had a young president who thought the best thing to do during an oil boom was to pay people's rights, their salaries and do a few other funny things and first start 77 included. When you look at it down the line, you would realize the amount of infrastructure he could have put in place with that money, the amount of industries he could have put in place with that money and that was because he was thinking about the day and not the future. So as much as I'd like to say, yeah, we could copy them about everything but I think we just can just copy them about things that are not national development. That's my position. Well, the before I come to both of you, the idea of this is that, you know, we focus too much about the future to the extent that we forget the present and we forget that the future is a summation of the past present. So if you are talking about infrastructure development in the future, start now. Like if that president you said had been wise enough to say okay, we have oil boom now, what can we do with this oil boom that will be better for the citizen and he put it into where it's good. Trust me, the future that means now will be tanking that president for being wise. But like I said, it's also paying people three times. That's what I'm saying. You should have focused on what is important. When you live in the moment, living in the moment does not mean being lavish and spending lavishly or being foolish. Live in the moment, do the best for that moment is investment into the future, the best for the moment. It is. Yes. So I feel like that's very contradictory that if I'm kapediaming, if I'm kapediaming and I'm living in the moment, I won't be, I won't be thinking about investments for the future. I'll be thinking about the latest thing now in town to get. But our governments can't absolutely kapediam because I feel like that's what they've been doing. That's why we are now saying they can't kapediam at all. They have to think oil is drying up, nobody, everybody is doing what's it called now, going into solar energy and that conserving the sunlight and whatnot. They are not nearest future, oil won't be like the biggest sunlight. It's not, we can't even, Euro has said, Euro has even said by 2030 they don't want to be using fossil fuels. It's not far, it's eight years, it's eight years from now. They have electric cars being produced now. See, which now, I stand corrected, Nigerians, our government, we can kapediam because the old world is leaving us behind leaving kapediaming for a long time. Dubai has left over. They don't want to talk about it anymore. Strategies want to say something. Just to tie up all you guys have been saying, I mean it's we're all on the same page, yeah. Today is a tomorrow we talked about yesterday. Yeah. Okay. And the truth is, I think coming from a lighter standpoint of you, no, now plan for the future, don't worry about it, right? Plan for it but not, you're not overly worried. You know, you can only live in the present. You can't live in the past. You can't live in the future. You can plan for the future but you live in the moment. So we're currently a plus TV. So we can't be any other place now. Now I can be thinking about, oh I have meeting for in the next one hour but I'm here. So I could be so worried about my next meeting and forget that I have to contribute to the conversation. All right. So it's about planning for the future, not so overly worried about it. Who is going to become president? I'm so worried. What will happen? Will the country shut down? Are we going to go bankrupt? Is Nigeria going to melt, you know, but it's going to plan strategically. But however, what do you have currently? What can we wield? What resources do we have at our disposal? What can we do as a people, you know, in achieving that, you know, future. So it's good to plan for it. But don't leave, live in the future, living in the bubble. Saying, oh in 2025, I'm going to build something massive. Start now, lay the brakes, you know, I love your point. But I'm still going to say this. This I think is going to. But I think this is going to finally settle the matter. All right. So if you came from a country like Rwanda or France or Turkey or, you know, countries that, you know, are moving towards, they have working satellites last hour ahead of us, space management agencies said to Nigerians is that our satellite is there. When the senator asked him, are you sure the satellite is there? But we are hearing that there's no satellite. Say, OK, go to space. I'm going to find that's the situation we are in. So for in Nigeria, we don't have that. So if you are Rwanda, you put satellite in the sky for school children to browse the internet. If it rains, our phones don't browse well. We have a serious problem. So I'm on the personal level. It's a good thing on a national level. National government. But the Nigerian government. That's the balance there. Okay. For the past how many years, for the past 30, 40 years ago, they've been saying we are planning for, they never did. If we are talking about 2023, we are worried about having the nation in 2023. We are worried about the country in 2023. Yes, we are not ready to cope in secrecy now. How can you not have good free and fair and peaceful election in 2023? We are not ready to do the needful now. So that's the argument. Focus on less plan for the future, not worry about it. We are worried, we will be the president of this and that. They are not planning. But you need to focus on now. As we are planning for the future, what are we going to do now to address those problems now so that the future can be great? That's the idea. We thank you for your attention while the program lasted. We hoped our conversations resonated with you and that in some small way encouraged you to contribute to your immediate environment. Little drops of water, they say, makes a mighty ocean. Don't forget the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook, plus TV Africa hashtag, the advocate ng, and on Instagram at plus TV Africa. The hashtag is the advocate ng. To catch up with previous broadcasts, please go to plusTVAfrica.com forward slash the advocate ng. Do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle. Join us next week. Same time, this station. Let us keep advocating for a better society. See you next time.