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Letter to the President: Part 1
The President of Federal Republic of Nigeria

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ)

Your Excellency,


 * It is with gladness of heart I write you this letter to finally realize that after an overtly disgraceful several months in history, Nigeria finally have a President. I have to start by

commending your remarkable public service record and also congratulate you for your vindication after several failed orchestrated plots to sabotage your emergence as the president. Your Excellency sir, as a prudent citizen of our great nation Nigeria, I join my fellow concerned citizens in their sentiment and hope for a better Nigeria. Mr. President, Nigerians are worried, Nigeria youth are fed up. We are worried about the direction of this country. Your Excellency, Nigeria is turning 50 years in few months and we see no light at the tunnel whatsoever. I would be unfair and biased however, to think or believe that you are not equally concerned or worried as well Mr. President. I would also be unrealistic not to know that the situation in Nigeria is not a one man’s job. In your few months in office Your Excellency, I commend you on some of the tough decisions you have made so far. Tough stands from dissolving your inherited cabinet, to formation of a new cabinet, especially the firing of the then Attorney (No Good For) general of the federation Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), to your recent overt decision on Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and the recent cut to the proposed “Independence Day” price tag. Your Excellency, I can’t be more proud of you.


 * However, Your Excellency, Nigeria needs you now more than ever. The Nigeria society needs and crave for a leader that will deliver us all the true dividends of democracy.

Nigerians need a stable, promising Nigeria; Nigeria youth need a structured nation. Your Excellency, Mr. President, Nigeria need a stable, uninterrupted, 247 power supply. You will agree with me Mr. President, that the imperativeness of this issue can not be in anyway over emphasized, as it is second to none. I believe you will also agree with me the enormity of a stable, reliable power supply to the economy. I will be biased however, if I pretend not to know the steps your administration has taken so far. I am fully aware of your newly commissioned energy task force, it is refreshingly encouraging. Your Excellency, not to undermine you efforts or stand on this issue, or that of your administration, as I am no expert in this field. I believe however, it is high time we give up on Kainji Dam (that is if we still use and rely on it) as a source of energy, and make something out of our natural resources (that is if it hasn’t been done or proposed already) in the likes of our oil, minerals, gas, etc. Mr. President, this is 21st century where everything, every proposal is attainable. I believe we’ve got to come up with something, some alternative(s) as it is done all over in the developed countries. Your Excellency, I just believe that with the current technological advancement we have around today, we should be able to convert our country produced oil to some form of energy (pardon me if I sound crazy or naïve), I am just fed up sir. I am of a belief that anything is possible; I seriously believe that we can afford a stable power supply. Needless, to say Mr. President, with a stable, 247 power supply, our economy will strive immensely. Mechanics will have light to work, Electricians will work, factories will run and as a result, people will create money and therefore spend money into the economy. Consequentially, our nation economy will grow and Nigeria will forever be great.


 * Nevertheless, Your Excellency, I am worried, Nigerians are worried about our stagnant, never changing unemployment situation. Sir, we are tired. Mr. President, Nigeria is tired.

We need jobs: JOBS. It saddens my heart that in my two decades plus years on the surface of the earth and as a proud citizen of Nigeria, nothing about unemployment has changed. Despite the shamble states of our nation’s education system and tertiary institutions, we produce graduates every year but we create no jobs for them. Mr. President, Nigeria youth need you, the graduates need you. I believe you know the enormous impact unemployment is having on our society from stealing, yahoo - yahoo, yahoo – plus, and not limited to the new emergence, kidnapping in the East. Your Excellency, Nigeria need a job, Nigerians wants to see an end to unemployment, and I have no doubt in my mind that you want to see an end to it too.


 * Mr. President, I believe it is no need for me to exaggerate the importance of job creation to our economy. We need JOBS to grow a true sustainable economy in Nigeria.

Our college graduates need jobs to achieve and fulfill their dreams. Also, it is no brainer that Nigeria has the best brains in the world. Nigeria has the best talents both home and abroad, Mr. President we need JOB. Your Excellency, you will agree with me that we need to join the rest of the world in making sure we cater for our resources (talents). I affirmatively believe we need to create a medium where people like me and millions of my colleagues scattered all over the world will return home and put our expertise’s to use. Mr. President, we need an unprecedented employment policy overhaul. We also need a ministerial overhaul, where each federal ministry will have a steady, unbiased, corrupt free hiring system. Your Excellency, Nigeria needs you, Nigerians need you, and I need you on this issue. We need to eradicate this nemesis of unemployment now, we need JOB creation.


 * Lastly, Your Excellency, on the 2011 election, Nigeria needs you. Firstly, I would like to sincerely applaud you for your recent decision on Independent National Electoral

Commission (INEC) with the recent appointment of its new chairman Prof. A. Jega. I believe your decision was widely welcomed. However, 2011 election is around the corner and yet Mr. President, no election formalities is visibly in place. By election formalities, I mean election traditions and protocols like, candidates nationwide campaigns, voter’s registration, presidential candidate’s debates. Mr. President, Nigerians are concerned, I am as well. Additionally, on the issue of PDP Zoning arrangement, I share in the sentiments of many of my country men, in rejecting and denouncing this overture. Mr. President, with all due respect to you and your party, PDP is not the only party in the country, it is unfair to other political parties. What happens to other political parties? I will like to believe however, that you don’t admonish this arrangement; you support it not. Moreover, I believe that the only Zoning arrangement we need Nigeria right now, is zoning public offices away from our highest paid politicians, self centered, greedy, corrupt leaderSHEEP, leaders to a true, honest, visionary, pragmatic leader.


 * Your Excellency, Mr. President, you running for a second term for office is no brainer: it is your constitutional right so therefore, contest. There is a popular saying that “A fool at

forty is a fool forever”. What then do we call a nation as Nigeria at fifty? Mr. President, I believe in your candidacy for president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I believe you can deliver all of the aforementioned issues; I believe you can deliver us from our long term perpetual sufferings. I believe in you Mr. President, Nigeria believes in you. And on behalf of many Nigerian youth, on behalf of Nigeria, on behalf of continuity, and myself, I beseech you to exercise your constitutional and God given right and run for second term as Nigeria president. At this finicky time, Nigeria needs a precise, pragmatic, visionary leader like you. Hence, in the presence of present corrupt leaders, politicians, and known corrupt presidential candidates, and in the absence of true known, proven, experienced, corrupt free candidates, you have my vote Mr. President. I need you to finish the transformation works you’ve started. Nigeria needs you to transform the mess you have inherited from your past predecessors. Your Excellency, Mr. President, I pledge my unchanging support to you and your candidacy. I pledge my support to your administration and campaign. I pledge to contribute my limited expertise and experience if needed or ever call on. Mr. President, Nigeria looks up to you to deliver her. Nigerians want you to do something realistically drastic and deliver us from this wrecking ship of a nation. Nigeria youth look up to you to deliver us all of the attributes of democracy. Nigerians are tired of constant gross denial and deprivation of our fundamental basic rights and amenities.


 * Your Excellency, Mr. President, we want stable, uninterrupted power supply, we want JOBS for our college graduates, we want our long overdue electoral reform.

God bless you, God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Thanks,

Prince Seun

For

#TheSeunAkinsanya’sproject
 * P.S. Mr. President, if by chance this letter of mine mistakenly or rudely reaches your desk, or by any change you are reading it, thank you. Please help Nigeria, help the Nigerian youth. Help Nigeria!

Princeseun (talk) 01:02, 22 October 2010 (UTC)PrinceSeun

The Birthday: Golden Jubilee

 * The prayer of every parents and parents- to- be is that may our children never bring shame upon us on the day of our celebration. Think of an occasion or event like a mother’s

50th birthday,where the whole families are gathered and all the invited guests are seated for the occasion. Also in attendance, is the camera man or public media outlet you have called upon to come and witness, capture the joy of the family. And suddenly, the very own children of the celebrant set out to embarrass her in the presence of everyone, including the invited media. This exactly is what happened to Nigeria on her 50th birthday, October 1, 2010; her children humiliated her. Nigeria was overtly disgraced and openly prosecuted in the eye of the world. On the day Nigeria celebrates her fifty birthday – golden jubilee, October 1, 2010, a bomb blast killed 12 people and wounded dozens of others. The technical perpetrator of the incident is The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), but the mastermind is unknown - and ongoing misery. It breaks my heart and brings tears to my face to see what corrupt politicians, greedy mongers, and selfish bastards have done to my Motherland.
 * Furthermore, when I first got the news about the bomb blast, I was instantly devastated. I was so shocked and didn’t want to believe it. My first reaction was “not again, not

today of all day, not on independence day”. I’m not in any way suggesting the bomb explosion was warranted, what I’m saying is that you don’t pick a day like that to display your anger and disgrace your nation. I have recently being an understanding fan of MEND; I can understand what they were fighting for. I do believe the Niger Delta crisis is a national issue and the Nigeria government must take a bold action and fix the problem. The needs of Niger Delta region must be meet and instantly solved. However, in a situation where an advocate for a course or movement of Niger Delta such as MEND have settled for a terror act such as this, then I wonder what this is all about. I can no longer advocate and indulge such element. I found myself asking questions such as when will enough be enough? When does a good, innocent deed becomes terror, when does the good become bad?
 * Nevertheless, the event of October 1, 2010 showed me that this so called Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has become a big joke. With the growing

speculations and accusations that MEND was sponsored by a yet-be-known man for a political gain, I seriously question the legitimacy of this group. Having elbowed their way into limelight’s and headlines of the independence celebration, MEND decided to embarrass us all. They gravely humiliated they country they claim to love and to whose core they fights for. What this perpetrator (MEND) has done is simply an act of terror. And if terror is a systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal, then MEND is a terrorist group. However, not only their act was despicable, they must be brought to justice. Both MEND the technical perpetrator and their yet-to-be named mastermind or sponsor must be gravely dealt with.
 * However, it is uninteresting surprising and very disappointing to know that after weeks have gone by after this unfortunate occurrence, our so call leadership of a government

cannot solve this case. As of yet, the brain behind this incident, the mastermind, is yet to be known. Nigeria security agencies are still wandering on the where about of the suspect. There is a report of security agency sending evidence to United Kingdom and United States for forensic examination, and this is just a typical show of sadness. Does that mean as big as we are as a nation, our security agents lack the necessary ability to conduct an emergency investigation? It is a shame. The government has failed us; the grave evil that befell us our birthday is been toiled with. Thus, political camps are pointing fingers at each other, presidential campaigns are trading allegations of involvement, and nobody is talking about going after and taking down The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and its counterparts, so that this type occurrence will never happen again. Thanks, Prince Seun For #TheSeunAkinsanya’sproject princeseunsignature@gmail.com Princeseun (talk) 01:16, 22 October 2010 (UTC)PrinceSeun

The State of the Nigeria union

 * As a faithful and passionate Nigerian, after reading several Nigerian newspapers online, like The Punch, Nigerian Tribune, The Sun, Sahara Report, I am very happy with

overtures going on in our country political atmosphere. I have to admit that though it might not be exactly what we want it to be, you will agree with me that it’s good for the politics of the nation. The 2011 general election is around the corner; politicians are running for their lives, making each other run for their money, or should I say “looted money;” the old garrison politicians are running to their political godfathers and the new ones are strategizing to stage an upset, while our good ol’ PDP is still fighting over its zoning argument. However, as a future leader, and a lover of politics, I am happy for the country. I must confess, I love this current wave of politics in the country, and I will tell you why. Our beautiful country, Nigeria is now 50th, the hype both home and abroad is remarkable. Though, people like me might say “why and what are we celebrating?" The reality can’t be changed: Nigeria is 50 years old. Of course, there are many questions to be asked, many things to be fixed, many leaders to be recycled, if not jailed, but we are still here. We survived 50 years of troubles and lootings. Nigeria has survived 50 years of poverty.


 * However, in readiness and preparation for the 2011 general election, our “new” INEC released its timetable for election. I must confess, when I first saw the timetable I was

overwrought. I was so agitated to the extent that the bad news suddenly became normal to me. I found myself asking how can we hold an election in January of 2011, a few months away? It is no brainer that to hold a reliable, free, and fair election, we must give all political parties an ample amount of time. I was disappointed and aggravated that our so-called INEC who prized itself to deliver free and fair election could come up with a timetable that is as unrealistic as that. However, just when I had accepted my faith and I was beginning to roll with the punches, figuring out how to volunteer for a candidate of my choice, Uncle INEC changed his mind. Yay! I read now that the election will no longer be held in January, but later in March or April. As a new-breed and progressive Nigerian, I am flabbergasted. I strongly believe that in order to hold or organize any type of election, we must start preparing at least two years before the time, therefore, allowing all the political parties and their candidates to prepare, raise money, and campaign rigorously.


 * Consequentially, in recent weeks, I have been so hyped, dancing and singing praises about the prospect of the election. I was enamored with the way all of our presidential

candidates declared their interest. In retrospect, I can’t recall the last time I got so carried away like this. In my book, 2011 presidential election is a must watch for every Nigerian. It is not just an election; it is an election that speaks volume. This election will feature and present change in some form. Take a look at some of the major presidential candidates so far: we have the president himself, President Jonathan Goodluck of People Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Dele Momodu of Labour Party (LP), Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki of People Democratic Party (PDP), Ex vice president Atiku of PDP, “The General himself” Ibrahim Babangida of People Democratic Party (PDP), our pastor, Pastor Chris Okotie of the Fresh Democratic Party (FDP), Pat Utomi of the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), and General Aliyu Gusau of PDP. Though party presidential primaries are yet to take place, but the buzz these aforementioned candidates have generated is momentous. While PDP skirmishes its zoning arrangement, Labour Party, Action Congress of Nigeria, and the rest of the oppositions are ready to battle, I believe. One thing that crossed my mind while I was gearing myself up for the forth coming election, however, is the question I asked myself: how sweet and awesome it would have been, if the likes of Atiku, Babangida, Bukola Saraki, Aliyu Gusau, and President Jonathan were all from a different party contesting against each other? I guess some day, maybe next time, and next election.


 * Nonetheless, working with what we have as at now, with primary elections yet to take place, I love what is going on. I love the fact that this coming election might witness an

unprecedented voters' turn out and even an upset. Putting my objective opinions and feelings aside on each candidates, I strong believe that an upset is highly possible. Let’s imagine for a second that candidate Ribadu of ACN or Dele Momodu of LP wins the election, that will be a huge upset and an “in your face” moment to the garrison establishment. All I’m saying is that, this coming election would witness an unprecedented change – a change we really have been desperately waiting for in Nigeria. It’s about time we embrace change in the country. It's about time we vote the right qualified candidate to office. I’m not campaigning for any candidate; I’m just engrossed in the possibility of having a “Fresh” President. I, of course, don’t want the likes of “The General himself,” Babangida, Ex Vice President Atiku, Governor Bukola Saraki, or Ex president Buhari to be my next president. Like every progressive Nigerians, I hanker a capable, fresh, young, intelligent, versed, educated, and most importantly, corrupt free president who has a vision for this beautiful country of ours, Nigeria. I quote presidential candidate of ACN Mallam Nuhu Ribadu “our resolution to change our ways of life is the immediate solution to our challenges.” He could not have said it any better. Nigerians, the time to act and take our country back is now. Let’s give our country her birthday gift of a new President; a Super qualified corrupt- free President.


 * Moreover, what is an election if the votes don’t count? What is an election if the voters' turn out is low? What is an election if the process is not free of drama, killing, and

thuggery? Like every Nigerian, I can only pray and hope that our Uncle INEC will fulfill his side of the bargain - not robbing us of our mandate. This, however, is what the soon–to-be-launched #TheSeunAkinsanya’sproject stands for: to educate electorates about their electoral powers. This might arguably be the revolution, the change, and the time we have all been diligently craving for, a time for our “generation do nothing” as they call us, to finally do something. You are probably thinking or saying to yourself right about now, "perfect, this is just another unrealistic wishful write-up!" I want you to take a minute and imagine what it will be like if we all come out and vote. Let’s imagine a Nigeria, or Naija as we call it, where we all votes for our individual candidate counts, and at the end of the day, the candidate with the most votes win. In my world, it is highly possible. In fact, it is too possible sef. I affirmatively believe that anything is possible, only if we can truly ignore the money sharing ritual and vote our true conscience. Brethren, whether we admit it or not, consciously or unconsciously, whatever happens in this forth coming election will affect us and our families, whether we leave in Nigeria or in the Diaspora.


 * Yes, we are not near where we need to be as a nation, and our electoral system isn’t near perfect, but as a realistic person, working with what we have on ground currently,

I’m happy with this current development. I hope this recent wave in anyway galvanizes a record breaking and unprecedented voters' turn out. We will get there someday, and this is a start. We shall definitely overcome someday. Nigeria will overcome. As we celebrate Nigeria at 50, let us all strive immensely to make a difference in the coming years. It is imperative we drop and change our mentality as a nation first before Nigeria can change. Clinging on to culture, old beliefs, and past incidents will not get us anywhere. Let’s stand up for what is right. Vote your real choice candidate!

Thanks, Prince Seun For #TheSeunAkinsanya’sproject princeseunsignature@gmail.com