 Welcome to The Advocate, where thought-provoking topics are discussed with no holds bad here on Plus TV Africa. We basically call a spade by its name. Today, I'm advocating for us to be better citizens and better persons for ourselves and the society. Oluwakai Ode says, we do not want old and sick leaders anymore as the election window opens, but the decisions lie with us. Ruth is asking if we are wiser now, going into the 2023 elections, and finally, should we be grateful that the Twitter ban has been lifted, Victor is asking today. Sit back and after this break, we'll be here to dissect it all, stay with us. The year before the elections become better. So as we all know, this year 2022 is fraught with so many thoughts and uncertainty, but as it's customary with me, I'm an incurable optimist and a firm believer in the phrase leave while you yet leave. So this year before the elections, and this being my first appearance this year on The Advocate, I'm here to give us some ginger for the year. I'm advocating for you to become a better citizen, a better Nigerian, a better person because how do we create a better society when we can't create a better person? What can we do in the kind of country we live in where there's so much we don't have control over? So here's me giving us some life hacks for rules of success, and I'll start with number one, change your mindset. Monitor your words and your thoughts carefully, clearly letting them into your mind you are becoming the master of your future. Number two, very simple, dream big, imagine who you could be, what you could have or do, then set goals clear, write them down, and make a detailed plan of action. Number three, and I like this one, make your decision to become rich, like it's all about the trend, make it, take control of a financial future, determine how much you want to earn and save exactly. Include this amount into your goals and think about them all the time. You need it in Nigeria. Number four, manage your life. You need to take responsibility for every single thing that happens in your life. Do not look for excuses, do not blame anyone, not even the government, and I say become the master of your own destiny. Number five, and please dear Nigerian, take this seriously, do your job superbly. Set a goal to do your job in the best possible way, identify the key skills you need to master, and then use your name in your work. Give your professional level every day, and this is so important as far as if you plan to jack back. Number six, put people on the first place. Create and maintain stable relationships based on trust with the most important people in your line of business constantly, and also regularly expand the range of your contacts. This is so important, cannot be underestimated in this 2022 before election. Number seven, give freedom to your mental strength. Your ability to generate new ideas has no limit to any digital age, therefore your future is also not limited by anything. I want you to also take number eight, think from a position of opportunity. There's so much opportunity that's going to happen in Nigeria now, learn to see potential benefit in everything that happens around you. You can develop such thinking by constant repetition. Number nine, create your own future. The most successful people will carefully plan their lives in advance. As a result, they think more freefully and make the best decisions. We all create ourselves. We all need to work constantly on ourselves, raise the bar for self-improvement. Only systematic and active actions need to success. And I would say, at the end of the day, no one is exactly sure what the year is really bringing. And the only place you may have some control is over yourself. So what I'm saying today, choose to become a better citizen and a better person. You may just be creating a chain of events that can create a better society. Happy elections ahead of all of us. Happy elections. Well, for me, looking at all that you've said, the summary to read all this, take charge of your life. Exactly. Be responsible. That's it. I'm sorry to say, well, let me just ask rather than say it faster. How responsible are we as individuals, Nigerians? And how much charge have we taken of our life? It's easier for us to blame the easiest culprit, which is the government, for everything that happens to us. Even when we wake up, we know that there's always traffic in our homes, on our roads. And who take us two hours with traffic to get to wherever we are going. We wake up one hour at a time, we get to work, and we blame governments. And the thing is, we know that this is the current state in which we are. It's like someone who, maybe a leper or someone who doesn't have legs, blaming, complaining every time. When you already know your condition. There's a Euradij that says, what's that Euradij again? That says, something about... Okay, Euradij, so tell me about the barrel. For one, even for one about Kanokilin, in Lehmman. Lehmman, exactly. You have a lot of time to read that. So I think what you're saying, which I agree with totally, is that, yes, there's inconsistency, there's failure, there is everything going wrong with governments. Yes, that is the fact. But we've known this for many years now. We need to look for a way to manage it and get ourselves out of it. You know, funny enough, this just reminds me of the fact that just before we started, I said, this year's my year, wow, man. You know what I'm saying? The truth is that, I would like to, you know how, every day, everywhere I have been inundated, I think you'll love it. There's been so much fear and anxiety and so much that we don't know about. And then, you know, the first thing that hit us in January was the election calendar. And it's February 2023. And I think there's some things that have even come up this year. So I kept on asking myself that, what are we actually going to do? What is my own role in this whole space? And I decided that I was not going to be one of those people that are going to sit down and continue to forget that fear. I don't care how it is. So there's going to be solutions to whatever it is that is ailing us as a people. There's going to be a way, and maybe because I do a lot of other things that look at how people are going to even leave the country. And it's come up daily that even Jackmine is not exactly a solution without proper planning. So why are we going to sit down here talking about how it's more working? And even in the process of Jackmine, a lot of people are wasting away because they are planning to Jackmine. But in the meantime, you wake up, see the government and you get there and you have to start struggling and realize it's not as rosy as you think it is. I mean, just to add on that line of thought, if you want to actually Jackmine, you must actually be equipped like she mentioned. You must be equipped. Otherwise, you will still live the same life. Even worse. Even worse. Because someone said Lisa didn't mind you. It's still going to be a Lisa did in Canada. It's not going to be a Lisa did also. You have to change. Because I mean, on that issue, I remember that there's a tweet that was a particular show that was on Instagram, I think by one of these very popular women. And then the guy was talking about how, he now said talking about how you need your credit rating, you need to put it down. I saw seven pages. I said, my goodness, you mean it is this difficult? And then people don't realize that you are paying for air, light, everything. And people don't. So the system works, but the system only works because people are paying. So that's why taxes are very high. And it compels you to be responsible. Responsible, exactly. No, it naturally does. It's a culture that you don't and not naturally. So it just means that if you're a more responsible person in Nigeria, you have a better chance of living a better life. That's just it. But I think to add to what you said, I was thinking maybe if I was going to add number 10, it would be accountable. So if you have great accountability partners, people that could help you with, especially in this new year, you're likely going to do better than you did last year. True. True. I mean, we can all be here just to see how it is. And someone is somewhere out on the bridge. And he's just wondering about what am I going to do tonight. From a different perspective, yeah. I think it's also important that we hold this accountable. People are the hem of affairs. Right? These nine things, as you said, someone that is in government should be thinking about it because if they were thinking about it, then we'd have good roads and all of this things. Because if you think about it, I mean, I could dream big because I'm not worried about food. I'm not worried about clothing. I can buy what I want. They can't dream big. So I mean, on the side of the other divide, it's also important that if the government does what they should do, people that are trying to feed tonight will not be thinking about that. You know, I mean, it's a much slow hierarchy of needs. You know, I can't think about, you know, self-actualization. So this is me just fighting for those group of people and saying that everybody has to be held accountable. You know one thing I've seen, I mean, I don't know what you want to say, but one thing I've seen is that in every crime in different societies, poverty or gaps or needs create different reactions. You either become bowed down or that anger gets you to think of how much better you can be. So that person at a joint leg back actually can't decide that, you know, this is what I this situation here. What kind of person do I want to be? Do I want to get equipped enough to get into governance or something? We don't actually look at a systemic way of changing governance. And even in addition to that, that person in the U.S. government needs to be made to know that so many people have stayed under U.S. government. Yes. And if come on, so what do they do? That's why we need inspiration. And that's why, you see, I always tell people that governments have failed. Why have they failed? No, hold on. What if you accept that? No, it's not. I refuse to accept that. No, the bottom line. Why can't you make things work? Okay, you refuse to accept that. What are you doing? What are you doing about this? No, I'm doing something for my space. I'm just saying that. And that's the problem. We need to do more than others. You see? You know, some people are helplessly helpless. No. I refuse to admit that. I am in this space. I am in this space. That's all. I know what you're saying. It's not possible. You might have discovered yourself. Never. Never. Never. I don't think we'll agree. Anyway, I mean, that's what I'm interested in, Banta, that we had there. All you want to hear today is next. Stay with us.