 We don't want old, sick leaders. The political transfer season, like football, is open, and as expected, many names and faces are popping up. There's realigning of interest and highly irrelevant lots who I call the lepers of politics are stepping into the game. They have one goal, cost chaos, ranker, and heightened uncertainties. They know they cannot win an election, even in their homes, their villages, but they are determined to make themselves relevant by saying whatever comes to mind. Very soon, social media will be a gurg with photo ops of politicians buying Akara beans and bread by the Rottai, even buns. Parties are looking for the strongest yet vulnerable link in other parties who they can poach. Politicians have started discrediting themselves and by July, full-scale tribal and religious affronts will have kicked in. Politicians amongst themselves know who the next favorite or most qualified candidate is. Yet, they do all this just to remain relevant and earn a sit-down peace talk which will lead to a political appointment after elections 2023. In all this, all you see are politicians attempting to make a way where there has been no way. Politicians put their best foot forward, swimming against the tides. Where are the citizens who are affected by the decisions of these politicians? We do not appear anywhere. We wait for the most emotionally relevant news, reports and lash on it. We walk around town accusing every politician. Yet, we are not ready to recommend a politician of choice. Neither are we willing to join a party. Until December, the song on our lips was direct primaries, direct primaries. A call that made politicians laugh because for direct primaries to be effective, you need to join a party. And as you already know, we are unwilling to join any party. They are all evil. The people have the right to demand for a particular candidate. But we are silent on this. We prefer to ridicule every single candidate that is presented. Politicians have a plan for 2023. They fight now and decamp by November. We, the people, do we have a plan? We're comfortable following the same politicians that we call corrupt, insincere and tribal bigots. We're comfortable in our one corner, one corner. Saying, Inogo better for this country. When in reality, what we are saying is, Inogo better for you and I, the individuals in it. Nigerians succeed in business because we understand that the outcome of every business endeavor has a direct effect on us. If only we understand that the outcome of any political activity has a bigger direct impact on us, we would be more participatory in elections. For 2023, we need to study and understand politics. Join a party. Get your PVC. Look beyond tribe and religion. Call out your family member and tribesman that is working against the nation. The more disunited you are, the weaker you are. The weaker you are, the stronger the politicians become. You shout, you don't want old Sikh leaders. Yet, our weakness is equivalent to the weakness of the Sikh leaders we are calling out. God bless the federal republic of Nigeria. God bless the people of Nigeria. Oh wow, I think I'm actually trying to think of what I know what to say. My mind is going to the fact that what you're saying directly actually links to what I was trying to get at. Even though I started from a point of motivation or like for me and maybe because I'm a lawyer, I'm so detailed that I'm breaking it down. I hate for people to tell me when I get up and do something. I want to tell me, please, getting up means you lift yourself up. So I do a systemic break it down. Now, how do we as a people follow these instructions? Plan it, get our PVC, when we don't even know exactly where we want to be. When we're bowed down, we thought of a person who is helplessly helpless. No, that's the way we are now. They turn not to take a job, but the truth is that a lot of us really feel helpless. We're too broken to see what things are happening. The number one was change your mindset. If we're going to actually be functional, effective, or create any change politically or otherwise, we have got to be resilient and strong. That's what the politicians know. There's a strategy to the madness. Every politician that is doing something and succeeding, I admire their guts. I admire the drive. I've seen and I look at myself that even if you do anything successfully, good or bad, it takes a lot. And so maybe that is something that we as citizens need to adopt and see. What you're saying about the politicians. I also program on radio and behind the scenes talks are very detailed. There are things that you should record and play. Now, one of the politicians told me something. He said, listen, Nigeria has never suffered. That's it. He said, because until we get to a stage where it is unbearable, things will not change. You know why? He said, because right now, he as a person sees people who are qualified citizens and is encouraging them, coming to the fold so he can help people like us who want to make an impact. And they tell you, no, I don't have interest in politics. He said, it's because they still have something to eat. When it becomes when it hits so hard that, you know, you don't have a choice, you will know that you need to get into politics for you to survive. And you see, we, there's so much again, like you say, and I blame those that call themselves the elites, not necessarily because of their status, but how enlightening they are because, you see, we mislead the general public, the people under the bridge, like you rightly said, why do I say that? Now, there is this talk about constitution, throw the constitution away. But the truth of the matter is that the constitution cannot be thrown away. What you do generally, globally, is to amend. You can get into parliament and decide that A, B, C, D, E, F, G, we don't want it. And that is what you call the people having a say in the constitution. Right now, constitution amendment is ongoing. Nobody is talking about it, no single person. Then we come back in 2024, because from now to 2023, forget anything about removing the constitution. Nobody is going to talk about that. We come back 2024 and we start shouting. Whoever is, of course, Bari won't be there. The next person, again, we're victim. Then we go back to the same palace. He has to go, constitution, throw it away. That's it. I mean, I'm just processing everything everyone is saying. And in my head, of course, it just comes to my mind, it's fact that we've lied to ourselves a lot. There was that misconception in the past that I can live without politics. I can do well without being there. I don't need a politician, especially if you are, if you are a relatively stable or a middle class, you are like, okay, I'm good. I don't need politics. Well, I think in the past years, we've come to understand that your politicians matter a lot. The quality of people that are brought forward to the presidential elections, gobernatorial, senatorial, all of those categories of people, they matter a lot. I was having this conversation with someone the other time. You realize that the people that eventually rise up to say they want to become candidates for whatever party or whatever position are people that have been in this game for a long time. Very true. And they probably started as dropouts. In fact, if we look at it, look at the trend, they're mostly dropouts. Because our constitution allows that with a high school certificate, I can context for any election. So it means that they actually, or they just need to prove that they went to a secondary school. They don't necessarily have the mental strength, the mental capacity to actually lead a country or lead a zone or lead a community. But because there's that room for it, and we, the people that are quote-unquote educated and enlightened, we've given them that room. We've succeeded in business, like you mentioned, but we've not succeeded in politics. We've left politics to people that really don't have the capacity. If you bring these people to business, they're going to run down the business. We know that. So we don't even employ them as entry level. You don't even make them entry level. They don't qualify. So, and we know that because they cannot process the kind of things, thoughts, and knowledge that is required to be the business. So why then have we left them to run our country? But before I come in here, I don't know if this is that. You'll be shocked. Look at, okay, let's take it. A state governor is a successful businessman. Thank you. Ogun State. Makinwa. Makinwa. No. A lot of the government. A lot of them are successful businessmen, former MBA lawyer and chief, whatever, MBA, Nijambal station, and all those people. Yet they get there, and everything is messed up. Exactly. They don't have the team. Look at people around them. You and I, we should be the team. We are busy in tech, and we are busy there saying, no, this government is useless. And we've been saying that for years. That's what I was saying. We've been saying the same thing for years. So it's not about one party. Because it's the system that we've created. And it doesn't take one person to build the country that we want. We need more than, and we need to stop this our messiah mentality. That's it. So we can build a better country. You know what I mean? I was just here sitting, thinking of a counter job tutor at Nijambal station. The truth is, this is my personal music, random stuff. I just feel so sad that it's almost like we're letting nature take its course. In the next two decades, or even less than that, some of these old guys, will be gone by virtue of life. They're going to die. I mean, you're going to die. It's almost like we are watching waiting for that to happen before we take it. I told someone that Buhari plan, cool. Lots of people did all of this. You know, they seized power, and I'm not saying we'll do that. I'm just saying that. You need to be active. What are we doing beyond tweeting and all of that? They're even using us as a strategy to tweet. So I think it's saddening to me that we're all just intellectually talking. We're just going to wait for another 10 years where they die off and we're going to take over. Nobody wants to take that lead. What are we doing? That's the problem. But it was scared. Because blood has to go on the line for that. You see, beyond blood, what is happening, I think here is this. I think that we do not realize that we had this systemic brain failure. You see, for 20 years or more, let's look out for one one primary school and secondary school. We had a period of time, so all those in their 40s and 50s now, went through a system of education that gave them academic skills, but actually not give them enough thinking skills, planning skills, life skills, to be able to say, okay, where are you going to? We naturally went through school and system of life in Nigeria. And maybe the most of Africa to say, go to school, get an education, get a job. So now we're not taught how to fight for life. How to fight for things. The last fight in Nigeria was independence. No, no, no, no. I remember my friend. We could go on and on and on the fight. Or answer us. Or do Nadeco... No, that answer is a different one. You see, different born came. If you want to go through the Nadeco era of the late 80s and 90s and 90s and stuff, then you know what it means to fight. But Ruth is next. Stay with us.