 The national elections, the stark unpreparedness of some aspirants. When you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are. That's from Richmond Dyle Johnson, he's a Nigerian-British international trainer and executive. He's now of blessed memory. The race to a leadership seat in Aso Rock requires dogged, structured and skilled politicians. Thus, living little or no room for nonchalance or any form of inadequacies. Observing the just concluded manifesto delivery in some parties' primaries, it can be deduced that majority of these aspirants were EU-prepared to defend their course and individuality beyond politics. The world is watching and the world sees every speaker as a representative of a faction of the populace. It is believed that the art of political showmanship entails the pair's ability to package and present values, visions and set goals on the pedestal of excellence. Despite having to surrender to button to the next fit candidate, the following has to be in place to assure citizens and the global populace at large that it is not a game of clownry. Vision, precision. Ability to articulate goals and agendas properly. Define goals, consciousness of recent and past happenings of the states. Empathy and awareness of the people. Lastly, the recent attack by unknown government in St. Francis Catholic Church on those states which left at least 70 people killed and injured. Also, the killing of a 30-year-old Ahmed Usman over alleged blasphemous comment against Prophet Muhammad, peace be on to him, in the Lubu area of Abuja, Nigerian capital city, is a call of awakening from all and sundry. Our security, health care and sound education are bedroaks to any given civilization. Political experience and candidates should therefore be certain about what they are bringing on board to address these issues. May the soul of those massacred in St. Francis Catholic Church over and other victims of violence and insecurity rest in peace. Here we are again. Amen. So, I mean, to be honest, is what we just said, I mean it's basically just taken off from the last conversation. If someone has said that they are aspiring for the highest position in the country and they are giving two minutes to make their case, some of them spent five minutes, some maybe more and you are not hearing, so the first thing that I noticed, like you said about that convention is what I expected them to even start from was a minute silence. It just shows you the tone deafness and the stark lack of empathy and thinking through and deep thinking in this country because in a crowd of what, 10,000, 20,000 people or in an organization of maybe 50, 200 people that put this event together, none of them thought it wise to actually give a minute silence for the part of the soul. Then eventually one of the candidates finally spoke about it but throughout all the speeches I was waiting to hear even the one that people, and there's one to mention, even though what I thought was such a wonderful speech was just an inspirational speech. I didn't see any action points, I didn't see any tackling the issues of insecurity, of the economy but why am I surprised? There's nothing to be surprised about. It's been seven years of stark, I don't even know what's the name to start to call it, but if you look at the scope out of this government in seven years, the truth is if you're part of this government there's really nothing you have to say, what are you going to say? Because we're part of government for seven years, so what are you going to say you want to do? Some guy came and said he wants to build on the legacy that the current government left and I'm like, what are you talking about? So I can understand why these guys actually have nothing to say because most of the people that are vying for this position were part of this government for seven years. So to say anything is actually to contradict themselves because they've had seven years to prove that they can do something, so I'm not surprised that they're unprepared, there's nothing to be prepared for, but anybody else has been outside this party and I expect, so unfortunately the opposition in Nigeria is really weak and they just get distracted with the unnecessary mundane details. I think that whoever in this opposition has more than enough material and resources to deal with this with the ruling party. They have more than enough material just to look at the past seven years and ask the people, this is what you want. This is what I do for a living, I'm not going to give anybody any free advice. There's too much material. There's way too much material. Thank you very much Tulu. So Victor, just like what Tulu said, many of them could not articulate many of the just very, just a few of them were able to do that and what touched me most was the fact that the only female candidate among them, the female aspirants among them, they gave her too many, the lawyer for that matter. You couldn't even see something for the sake of encouraging other women in politics. You wanted nothing, you stepped down and you left. And then people were like, why women? I was disappointed actually. You're expecting too much. So Victor, I know you're a life coach. You deal with behaviour, you talk about behaviour, approach people, behaviour and their speech and their, so what's the advice? We have the major debates coming up about candidates. So this time around we want to hear them communicate. We look forward to that. What strategies and would you advise these candidates? Before, I mean, maybe I will even tell the part of Tulu, I'm not here to give free advice. But she contacted me. But anyway, the truth is, the reward system is so dilapidated. We are rewarding mediocrity. We are rewarding moral decadence. We are rewarding ill-mannered lack of values kind of people. We are just rewarding non-challency. And it's a problem. And like Tulu earlier mentioned, can we begin to think about a third force? Before we got on and said, I told you that, how we think about this third force has to be very strategic. When you look at the tech ecosystem and what they have done to really disrupt traditional businesses, we must come with that kind of spirit, right? But of course, also taking cue, because the truth is, we can throw away the fact that some of these people had been working for the positions they are trying to get in for maybe 20 years ago. So it's a roadmap. But oftentimes I see we, millennials or we revolutionaries trying to come and say I've got the clincher. I've got the strategy. We take over this nation. We can take over this nation in four years. You can't even take over America. It doesn't happen like that, right? So I think two things are critical. One, have a proper roadmap and that roadmap has to be built in such a way that we take some intelligence. And as much as these old jobs are annoying us, but there's some intelligence that we need to draw from how they have built the political system. If you must disrupt anything, you must understand how it works. And back to what Tulu kept saying, we don't even understand how, what's the dynamics of the, we don't understand how it works. When you talk to some, they're just saying some bogus motivational stuff, which doesn't, is not technical, there's no dynamics as to how the politics works. I tutored something a few days ago to really get things to really command the kind of power and the kind of influence because leadership is intentional influence. So there's no good or bad leader. There's a leader who is either good or bad based on the personal values. So no good or bad leader. Osama was a leader. So he used his skills to, you know, so everybody. It was Obama. Obama too was a leader. So it's about, so again, back to what I tweeted, I said three things are critical, to build that political influence. Number one is, you know, mobilization. Number two is money. Number three is structure. So you've got to mobilize. You've got to have a structure. I mean, you need money. You can't just be fully thinking that money is not important. So you can't be speaking words. So those three things are key. Can we begin to know because again, you can't change who doesn't want to change. You can only reinvent. Okay, those that are someone says something that the old people are redeemable. Can we begin to recreate a new order? Can we begin to recreate a new pathway? So I think we should rethink this third force, right? And begin to build. Show me a 2050 roadmap. We may not have feature in but I mean, let's do it for the culture. That's what I think really. That's very apt, actually both of you. If you check, let's take a look at the pathway of the person, person that image winner of APC talking about if you check from some years back this man has been on the opposition to the ruling party at that time and he stayed in that line and if you watch his processes strategy, whether you like it or not, we're not here to campaign or commend him or condemn him but I just want to just look at his principles, his strategies. So he worked long time for this. Even though yes, there are some other factor of law like God and other things. Maybe money like you said. But this one Not say maybe, absolutely. Absolutely money. So this is what we young we need to learn. And then more importantly I'm going to say this to our aspirants. You know, just like I quoted Rich Mondial Johnson the Nigerian British executive is lit now. He said when you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are means that they give you opportunity. They think that it's just Nigerians that are always not a Nigerian affair. The world is watching. What kind of person do you want the world to remember you as? We were here in Nigeria we were at least watching aspirant debate in America in UK. Mention those countries. So it's not just about being the president. It's about having an identity of yourself. What kind of person I am. When I come inside to speak, I speak value. I speak internet. I speak reason. They gave you the ticket or they didn't give you the ticket or you are stepping down for someone. Should not stop you from communicating. This is what many of the aspirants lacked. I totally agree with you. I always say you can't give what you don't have. The truth is it's actually unfair to demand from someone what they don't have. So if you look at the current situation of the country in Nigeria, the bar has been set so low. The bar is so low. You just need to be a thinking person to sit down, analyze the issues and then ask for solutions. I don't think that it's so complicated. I mean the problems in themselves solving those problems might be complicated but I think just on the face of it the problems are obvious and we can start to solve the problems. So much has been said already about the importance of coming prepared. You don't just come to the raise unprepared. Up next is Tolu. Just stay with us. So you get notified about fresh news updates.