Former Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, spoke at the 2017 Annual Dinner of the King's College Old Boys' Association , KCOBA, as a Principal Guest of Honour Speak at King's College, Lagos State.

The Titled of his speech is, A NEW NIGERIA OR A BETTER ONE:THE FITTING TOOLS OF A GREAT REPAIR

“The very dynamics of the current political economy is to separate people from each other. Such mean isolation was never part of us but it has crept into our culture. Of this brand of newness, I want no part. The world has entered a period where progressive, humane reform are not fashionable. We are told to be practical, to accept the way things are.

There is no struggle over competing ideals; we are told the current political economy is immutable. The only thing that matters is whether you master its dynamics to succeed or you sink and fail. To attempt to change things is as futile as trying to change the sky and clouds themselves.

“This is a blatant lie. Change is possible and change we must. There is no such thing as having no ideology. Every political and economic institutions are founded on one thought system or another. To accept the false premise that there is no alternative to how things are is to acquiesce in the unfair ideology that has brought us to our current predicament.

“In the hard sciences such as physics, chemistry or mathematics, one can speak of immutable principles and objective formula. In the affairs of men, most things are subjective. Virtue and vice, good and bad, what is optimal and what is not have no fixed meaning. Definitions change with the ideological and moral perspective of each person.

“In the face of recession, one man fires most of his employees in order to maintain his own income level. Another man accepts to receive less income so that he may retain his workers. Two men faced with the same circumstance. Each made a decision of equal soundness with regard to the rational or intellectual quality of the thinking processes that led to the decisions. However, the decisions call forth two divergent value systems that suggest two vastly different visions of how the political economy should function whether in or out of crisis.

“As in almost all social interactions, there are few acts devoid of subjective ideological coloration. The decisions we make are determined by how we would like the world to be – our very actions are determined by what we value so as to keep and what we are willing to discard when the ship of state is tossed either by storm or errant navigation.

“Since there is no one objective optimal standard by which to construct a political economy, it would seem prudent for a nation to dedicate a healthy amount of time discussing this fundamental matter. For such is the surest path to reaching consensus on what economic development and good governance mean in our particular context.

“Sadly, the obverse is true. We talk little about this core issue. Instead, we spend inordinate time bickering over the symptoms of our failure to discuss the core issue. We are like the bewildered couple who has gotten their marriage license after a lavish wedding; yet neither of them really understands the meaning of marriage or their roles as husband and wife in it.

“Legally, they are married but functionally, their union is a crippled one. This couple will be at loggerheads until somehow, some way they forge an agreement on what type of home they want and what are their respective duties in making that home come into existence.

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SOURCE: http://www.kingsleyiwu.com.ng/2017/09/nigeria-is-like-bewildered-couple-who.html

Great speech by the legend

make this one go sit down for one corner. who is tinubu

fineboynl:
make this one go sit down for one corner. who is tinubu

The slayer of PDP...

Chop and clean mouth.

Firstly,

i give it to the writer of this rich intellectual narratives,cross carpeting socio,political and economic shpere of our starving economy,

but reality is that ,I didnt vote for this apc govt.,

so diafor,am not pained.

lucky meee

Filled with innuendo.

Afojas nd their two face, are inseperable. Nice speech though

Omaricha166:
Afojas nd their two face, are inseperable.
Nice speech though

Your terrorist leader is now a fugitive running from the long arm of the law.

Buhari av sidelined this one...that's why he is nw talking

una never see things... the picture is getting clear day by day