 I took the time to mention those who are former senators and former presidents to continue to make the points that I made earlier that these people don't want to go anywhere. Senator Fechner, you have been a star. Thank you very much for the very kind invitation to be a part of the launch of this very important politics that works, what schools and seminars won't teach you about winning elections. This is a book co-authored by the two gentlemen. But I think that two important promises are contained in this whole effort. The first is that this book will teach what we don't know already about winning elections. The sorts of things that are not taught anywhere. And frankly those who are here, I can name a few who can teach us so many things about what no one has yet taught you about winning elections. As part of that, when I came into politics, I really thought I knew more about, I mean I was always on the side of watching, and I really thought I knew all that could possibly happen in politics. I mean, having been the one where they let go. But I can assure you that the past few years have taught me that there is still so much that you cannot even be taught in any book. You speak a lot. No matter what the book may say. Because there are too many wonderful things that are not true. And so those of us who are part of the partisan party will probably be able to tell you that there are just too many wonderful things that can happen. The second is that this is an intergenerational effort. One between the 60th something year or a 70th of February when you do. And the 20th something year I believe year, I like that. So both are trying to teach in modern lessons here that the best way that this will work is where there is an intergenerational action. The young and the old as opposed to any attempt to defy the tenets of liberal politics by saying that it is one group or the other. The type of politics that we all prefer for that most of us will defy is liberal politics. Free enterprise, democracy, individual freedoms. It means that there can be no discrimination either on the basis of age or gender or political persuasion. So that is why we negotiate our way through these things. And I think the point was made by some of these people. So in liberal democracy, it's about negotiation. Gender, there will be negotiations on the basis of gender. Women will say we don't have representation. Young people will say we don't have representation. And then we start talking about quotas or affirmative action or some solution on the other. And the simple reason is that the very basis of liberal democracy is that everybody is invited to the table. How do you get there? Like some of what has been said, whether you bring your table there or your chair there and yourself, or you get there through the window, however you get there. Get there. I'm very strongly of the view that everyone must be invited to this party. But the important thing is to ensure that we have as well as possible a level game as well as that is possible. Now the problem also with liberal politics is money. Is money. Who has resources? Because resources will also, to a large extent, determine who can play the game. So for example, a person, somebody I don't want to go into any of the names, or somebody who has a major company today, who has resources, will probably be able to get into the game faster than a 60-year-old man with all his experience, but nobody. So there is that as well. So there are barriers. I think that what is important is to see how we can remove those barriers as much as possible so that there is a level play game. What I've experienced just in serving in the position of Vice President for the past few years, and having the opportunity to bring on more young people and things, and some old people too, I mean elderly people, is that the quality of contributions is necessarily designed by age. And that's the understood. I have so many young people who work with me. Very brilliant young people who work with me. And they are not intimidated, I must tell you, by anybody who doesn't have them sitting at the table. They're just not intimidated. So the youngest person who was working with me was 22 years old. Thanks. They are both university and all of that. What? Extremely brilliant. And they are very assertive. Extremely assertive. She knew her audience. And I have the same with me, and of course, how much we spoke a few minutes ago. 37-year-old, you know, his special advisor, I have a special advisor on political affairs, who is 60-year-old. All of our ambassadors and people who is also probably 60. But then there are so many, you know, very young people. A bulky society sitting over there is my legal advisor. A senior special assistant legal. Right. And Berkizu has an interesting, she has an interesting history. Berkizu was married off at the age of 13. Had her first child at the age of 14. Right. Through all of that, her mom made sure that she got a vocation. And she is. She's the best in the country today. Right. And she's still under the age of 40. Right. Like all of that has three kids, three grown kids. But at the age of 40. Right. But the truth of the matter, she comes to the job with experience. The kind of experience that nobody else has. She comes to the job with, you know, with a variety of ideas. Come on. Yeah. So that job, everyone who is here. So I think we must focus our minds a little more on what people do in the table. What I do bring you to the table. I'm very, I don't engage on the basis of it. Because it's a real life. I mean, we started, I was always asking around, I met Rao for the first time when we were, the Transition Committee in 1999 or Transition Committee of the New Lagos Government there. He was barely 42 years old. You know, I was just about the same age at that time. He had served an active, he was campaign manager for the Ashwajju Volati Nubu's campaign at that time. He was his campaign manager. And ran the entire operation. He ran all the, you know, the entire campaign. He was not quite young at that time, but he was campaign manager. But he's been at it since then, you know. I was coming to this. I've been advisor to the Attorney General of the Federal Reserve when I was 30 years old. So I had some coming into this. So there is a place also, and I think Babakudy Ruker has been the point at that. There's a place for preparation. There's a place for getting, you know, getting ready. It's no point saying that I've become Minister for Finance at the age of 25 because I'm a smart kid. It takes more than that. If you are going to deal in an Nigerian system, in this system of ours, to work through all that is required to be heading I think you need some experience. You get a bit of experience. You don't have to be very old, but it helps if you've served in one capacity or the other as a special advisor, special assistant, whatever. All of those positions are very central positions. I think, unfortunately, that a special assistant of EA is somewhat, you know, it's not a very serious position. It is every special assistant that we have, all of them, take very important decisions and they take those important decisions on their own. The way the government, the way governments are set up, everybody plays a complex role. It depends on how serious you are. It just depends on how serious you are. You will find a 15-year-old man who is lazy who has no idea. You will find a 23-year-old man who is lazy who has no idea. Hopefully, in a few years, you might get brighter and I might get more serious. But my experience is that everybody, they just search a variety of people and a variety of talents and some are older than others, some are younger, male or female. So I really would like us to zero in on the real needs of our nation. I think this country needs the best money we have if we look at all of the variety of talents that we have. We have everything that it takes for a great country. But it is the coming together of black minds of the coming together of people who agree on the same things, old or young. I don't think we should divide ourselves among those minds, because this country can be great, but we need the coming together of the very best. Whether they are women, male, female, male, or whatever. So I think that our central concern is how do we get the very best people to work in the interests of this country? How do we get the very best people to project the image of the country? And I must say that politics and especially partisan politics has not necessarily delivered on a lot of the promises that we expect from partisan politics. What you find is many times you are disappointed by even just the results and what happens in the whole process. Those who are able to get a chance to go forward. So sometimes you are disappointed but that's the nature of democracy. My view is that we must continue to work at it. We must continue to make the sacrifice that is required to be able to get our views across. And we must continue to organize students. We can't keep up. We can't say well things are so different so we go to enter the space and so we throw up our arms. If we keep on doing it, one day we will get the right results we will get the right needs. Every country deserves excellent leadership and deserves the best we can get. But excellent leadership doesn't come by accident. It doesn't come by lack of it. We just have to keep making the effort. One day when we were talking about the police a country the UK for example dissolved the police force three times three times before we got it right. So a country evolves. People evolve. Ideas evolve so we can't be afraid of people where we are today when people look at you and you don't think that's so bad that you have never seen it. Always be careful about people who are always talking about the good old days. Be careful. They either have a loss of memory or they have something else. Although they are doing these things people will tell you that many years ago things were so great if I have time to be here people are talking about some good old days. You won't know whether we were not in the same country. We mustn't give up in that process. We mustn't keep looking back. The challenges of today are meant for those of us who are here and alive today. I always say there is no better time to be alive. This is the best time to be young. Those who are young today have the best opportunity ever. In my own day the professor I had to research to write an article. It will take me weeks today I can just do that with my iPad. I can get on to any library anywhere and get all the information and write my article in hours rather than weeks or months or years. It was for the CNN guy who told us that in your smart phone like the smart phones we carry today our smart phones carry a hundred times more power than the Apollo spacecraft that took men to the moon. Just the smart phones that you and I have today carry a hundred times more power more computing power. So our generational challenges have the generational solutions. Let's stop complaining let's just face the issues and solve them. Whether we are government or we are planning to get to government I have wanted to just get to the table and solve some of these problems. I'd like to thank the authors of this great book and I've had the opportunity to look at the book and I think it's been very, very, very worth worthy for those of you who haven't seen it yet or have been worthy because you want to go into politics. It promises, as the authors have said to be a manual for being able to get into not just to get nominated but also to win to actually win the election. I'm also looking forward to studying the book more closely to work with you. Thank you very much.