Against the background of the increasing ethnic and political schisms in the country that have left the country in dire straits, is the emergence of some new kids on the block. They indeed looked like kids on the political plane.

For a group of middle-aged men and women who have made good success in their diverse various professional callings, the task they have set for themselves could undoubtedly be daunting. The political battle can only be compared to a David and Goliath rematch.
But for these new political kids on the block, comprising medical doctors, architects, lawyers, journalists among other leading lights in various professional endeavours, they are joined with the common aim of upturning the political landscape.
The Alliance for a New Nigeria, ANN could be the next big thing to happen to Nigeria, Dr. Jay Osi Samuels, a Havard trained physician and an alumnus of the scholarship programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation enthused as he sat down with a team of journalists in the Ikeja area of Lagos last weekend. The mission of ANN he said is “to be the driver of a new movement to retire and replace the old generation of leaders.”
Having been on the political sidelines, he had seemed satisfied to occupy himself in his profession of medicine which has seen him evolve into a medical entrepreneur having pioneered the country’s first medical aesthetics and cosmetics dermatological supply and distribution company; he said he was comfortable enough not to be bothered by the malfeasance of the system.
But Dr. Samuels said the more they stayed out, the more he discovered that no one could be secured from the failures of the government.
Hence, he and some other professionals got around to form and register ANN as a political group to take the baton away from those he termed as professional politicians who he said have made a mess of the country.
“Why do you think Tu Face was successful? Because Nigerians are looking for someone to show leadership and they are not seeing it,” he said of the initiative by him and some fellow technocrats still presently engrossed in their professions but still putting out their time and money to form the ANN.
Giving his experience of the challenges he faced when he returned to Nigeria, he said:
“When I came back from the US, my friends asked me whether I was serious about staying in Nigeria and that I had better go back, but I said I am not going back and that this is my country and that this is where I am going to live.
“Then they said I had better think of forming my own government! Then I said what do you mean by having your own government? Then they told me you have your own house, your own borehole, your own power and that that is the only way you can survive.”
Dr. Samuel continued with his own business but increasingly saw that the failures of government continued to push at him.
“Some of us have said we will do our business and I will have nothing to do with government. But over the years, the government has been encroaching on our space by not doing the things that they are supposed to do regarding bad policies and bad policy implementation.”
The ANN, Samuels said, has filed papers with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and is presently in the final process of being registered as a political party. The group meanwhile through its website, www.alliancefornewnigeria.org has been waging a massive social media campaign to woo more and more members which according to Samuels presently stand in the thousands.
Asked if the group would shut its doors to those who do not identify themselves as technocrats, he said:
“This would not be a party only for technocrats. It is a party for every Nigerian, and we are trying to set a difference between us and the professional politicians. When you say technocrats, technocrats are experts. We believe that a technocrat has a better chance of being a good manager of resources of people than somebody who is not.”
“People who have been participating in the democratic exercise are less than 30%; so we are looking at those people who have not been participating, more than 70%. Because the feeling is that those who get into politics are those who failed in society, but we believe that by coming out as a group of technocrats, that class of people who do not participate will be motivated to step forward to participate or even to serve.”
“The difference between the group we are putting together and the other groups is that the professional politicians play politics, that is all they do, they don’t have any other means of livelihood. They want to be put in a particular position, make money, and that is it. But we have the perspective of coming to serve; it is open to everybody.”
“We are looking at students, young adults, and young professionals and they are the ones that form the bulk of the 70% that do not participate in politics, and we have strategies already to make them participate. So, what we are doing is packaging ourselves as a body that will be irresistible to that segment of society. But that, even if you are a bricklayer you are still welcomed to be part of the body.”
He said the goal is to get at least 10 million persons who are presently not within the captive base of the present political parties into their base.
On the prospects of the group and why it was formed, he said:
“We see ourselves as the vehicle for the true change that every Nigerian desires. For me stepping out to take up this task was not easy because I could have stayed in my comfort zone and said to myself that I had nothing to lose.”
“But when it comes to Nigeria, our children and our children’s children will have us to blame if we don’t speak up and come out and do something about it.”
Noting how the country was faced with difficult choices in 2015 and how four years that the country may have no choice at all to make, he said:
“In 2015 we were stuck with two alternatives, and by all accounts, those two options were not palatable for most of us. But people still made a choice, and that choice is the reason we are here today.
“Now we are going to 2019, and we may not even be able to have the choice of a platform because we believe that the two major political parties are nonexistent. That is why we are creating a platform to make ANN that credible platform that people can have hope and trust in to lead Nigeria out of the current situation we are in.”
Asked about the prospects of the group competing with the two major political parties now in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP he said:
“We are coming up to destroy that political space. We are using innovation and technology. We are actively as a first step going to register ten million members from that group that is not currently participating.”
“We are not competing with them for space; we are creating a new space that they don’t have control over. They will not know what hit them and that is what our game plan is.”
“We are not playing the game their playing, we are playing differently,” he affirmed.

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[/b]“We are not competing with them for space; we are creating a new space that they don’t have control over. They will not know what hit them and that is what our game plan is.”
“We are not playing the game their playing, we are playing differently,” he affirmed"[b]
Hope this is not another APC/PDP political gimmicks because Nigerian politicians simply align themselves with any government in power(AGIP).

We do not need any further political party to amend the adversities of our nation but division or disintegration so that we can familiar with our own enemy. We are tired of politician embellishment.

bamidek:
Against the background of the increasing ethnic and political schisms in the country that have left the country in dire straits, is the emergence of some new kids on the block. They indeed looked like kids on the political plane.

For a group of middle-aged men and women who have made good success in their diverse various professional callings, the task they have set for themselves could undoubtedly be daunting. The political battle can only be compared to a David and Goliath rematch.
But for these new political kids on the block, comprising medical doctors, architects, lawyers, journalists among other leading lights in various professional endeavours, they are joined with the common aim of upturning the political landscape.
The Alliance for a New Nigeria, ANN could be the next big thing to happen to Nigeria, Dr. Jay Osi Samuels, a Havard trained physician and an alumnus of the scholarship programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation enthused as he sat down with a team of journalists in the Ikeja area of Lagos last weekend. The mission of ANN he said is “to be the driver of a new movement to retire and replace the old generation of leaders.”
Having been on the political sidelines, he had seemed satisfied to occupy himself in his profession of medicine which has seen him evolve into a medical entrepreneur having pioneered the country’s first medical aesthetics and cosmetics dermatological supply and distribution company; he said he was comfortable enough not to be bothered by the malfeasance of the system.
But Dr. Samuels said the more they stayed out, the more he discovered that no one could be secured from the failures of the government.
Hence, he and some other professionals got around to form and register ANN as a political group to take the baton away from those he termed as professional politicians who he said have made a mess of the country.
“Why do you think Tu Face was successful? Because Nigerians are looking for someone to show leadership and they are not seeing it,” he said of the initiative by him and some fellow technocrats still presently engrossed in their professions but still putting out their time and money to form the ANN.
Giving his experience of the challenges he faced when he returned to Nigeria, he said:
“When I came back from the US, my friends asked me whether I was serious about staying in Nigeria and that I had better go back, but I said I am not going back and that this is my country and that this is where I am going to live.
“Then they said I had better think of forming my own government! Then I said what do you mean by having your own government? Then they told me you have your own house, your own borehole, your own power and that that is the only way you can survive.”
Dr. Samuel continued with his own business but increasingly saw that the failures of government continued to push at him.
“Some of us have said we will do our business and I will have nothing to do with government. But over the years, the government has been encroaching on our space by not doing the things that they are supposed to do regarding bad policies and bad policy implementation.”
The ANN, Samuels said, has filed papers with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and is presently in the final process of being registered as a political party. The group meanwhile through its website, www.alliancefornewnigeria.org has been waging a massive social media campaign to woo more and more members which according to Samuels presently stand in the thousands.
Asked if the group would shut its doors to those who do not identify themselves as technocrats, he said:
“This would not be a party only for technocrats. It is a party for every Nigerian, and we are trying to set a difference between us and the professional politicians. When you say technocrats, technocrats are experts. We believe that a technocrat has a better chance of being a good manager of resources of people than somebody who is not.”
“People who have been participating in the democratic exercise are less than 30%; so we are looking at those people who have not been participating, more than 70%. Because the feeling is that those who get into politics are those who failed in society, but we believe that by coming out as a group of technocrats, that class of people who do not participate will be motivated to step forward to participate or even to serve.”
“The difference between the group we are putting together and the other groups is that the professional politicians play politics, that is all they do, they don’t have any other means of livelihood. They want to be put in a particular position, make money, and that is it. But we have the perspective of coming to serve; it is open to everybody.”
“We are looking at students, young adults, and young professionals and they are the ones that form the bulk of the 70% that do not participate in politics, and we have strategies already to make them participate. So, what we are doing is packaging ourselves as a body that will be irresistible to that segment of society. But that, even if you are a bricklayer you are still welcomed to be part of the body.”
He said the goal is to get at least 10 million persons who are presently not within the captive base of the present political parties into their base.
On the prospects of the group and why it was formed, he said:
“We see ourselves as the vehicle for the true change that every Nigerian desires. For me stepping out to take up this task was not easy because I could have stayed in my comfort zone and said to myself that I had nothing to lose.”
“But when it comes to Nigeria, our children and our children’s children will have us to blame if we don’t speak up and come out and do something about it.”
Noting how the country was faced with difficult choices in 2015 and how four years that the country may have no choice at all to make, he said:
“In 2015 we were stuck with two alternatives, and by all accounts, those two options were not palatable for most of us. But people still made a choice, and that choice is the reason we are here today.
“Now we are going to 2019, and we may not even be able to have the choice of a platform because we believe that the two major political parties are nonexistent. That is why we are creating a platform to make ANN that credible platform that people can have hope and trust in to lead Nigeria out of the current situation we are in.”
Asked about the prospects of the group competing with the two major political parties now in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP he said:
“We are coming up to destroy that political space. We are using innovation and technology. We are actively as a first step going to register ten million members from that group that is not currently participating.”
“We are not competing with them for space; we are creating a new space that they don’t have control over. They will not know what hit them and that is what our game plan is.”
“We are not playing the game their playing, we are playing differently,” he affirmed.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/2019-technocrats-mobilise-battle-politicians/

Has anyone ever bothered to look into why Yorubas, hoeever highly educated and accomplished they are, first before they enter into politics they sign on a godfather. The godfather then give them access to a King who endorses the selection. After that the godfather introduces his candidate to the press. Afterward he builds a coalition of grassroot support to work the wards and make his candidate a household name.

Anyone ever bothered to study this structure and why those who adhere to it are always the name brands in Yorubaland?

This Dr is infatuating. All this big turenci, when omonile show up with cutlass to demand his title I go see how he go convince the thug that we need reformation.

BabaRamota1980:



Has anyone ever bothered to look into why Yorubas, hoeever highly educated and accomplished they are, first before they enter into politics they sign on a godfather. The godfather then give them access to a King who endorses the selection. After that the godfather introduces his candidate to the press. Afterward he builds a coalition of grassroot support to work the wards and make his candidate a household name.

Anyone ever bothered to study this structure and why those who adhere to it are always the name brands in Yorubaland?

This Dr is infatuating. All this big turenci, when omonile show up with cutlass to demand his title I go see how he go convince the thug that we need reformation.

Politics is local and no matter bow educated you are, you need to play the politics of your locality.

In Nigeria, as a technocrat with no political history or clout, you need people to play the politics for you while you can be technocrat-ing upandan else, you ain't going no where. You need people that will open doors and get you into the important meetings. It is not about speaking grammar and showing plans.

You also forget that some of the electorates don't trust anyone in politics, technocrat or not. Theu see politicians ans liars and when they get elected, they will change but the "godfather" or "sponsor" is someone they know, trust and think if you forget you campaign promises, they can complain to the person who can rein you in.

Mynd44:

Politics is local and no matter bow educated you are, you need to play the politics of your locality.

In Nigeria, as a technocrat with no political history or clout, you need people to play the politics for you while you can be technocrat-ing upandan else, you ain't going no where. You need people that will open doors and get you into the important meetings. It is not about speaking grammar and showing plans.

You also forget that some of the electorates don't trust anyone in politics, technocrat or not. Theu see politicians ans liars and when they get elected, they will change but the "godfather" or "sponsor" is someone they know, trust and think if you forget you campaign promises, they can complain to the person who can rein you in.

Precisely! Godfather is the troubleshooter. They are like pimps. A technocrat that fails to subscribe a godfather may win an election but all his programmes and policies will be frustrated and his name and good intent soiled. People will stone him out of office. Technocrat is too independent minded to empathise and fraternise with the ugly reality in local politics. He cant mobilise thugs when situation calls for it, he cant identify and recruit the corrupt officers in law enforcement or in judiciary. His self righteousness may work in his favor for a minute....but soon becomes boring and uninteresting. Politics require drama and controversies. Godfather know when things are going to smooth to disrupt the peace and bring chaos and tension....so he can get the opportunity to intervene and calm the air and raise credibility and relevance.

Oh, i love politics! I want to be godfather one day and troubleshoot palaver like Oba of Lag... . Dont complete the sentence abeg.


Emi Omo alhaja

Why we Nigerians show support for retrogressive way of life? As soon as we usually endorse political party platform in Nigeria Godfatherism will always prevail good intention of patriots. Its an inherited hidden agenda that has destroyed Nigeria. Take a look since we got independence, the same set of people have dominated our nation up till date. Another instance is Lagos state, when Bola Ahmed was Governor he vowed that he was going to govern Lagos for 24 years. He spent 8 years, Fashola also spent 8 and will also complete his own 2 terms under the same man instruction. The same leadership and same mentality. How do we grow in that kind democracy? Nigeria need to divide or disintegrate so that we can be familiar with our own enemy. Yoruba adage, ki ale akata lona ki a to fi abo Lori ediye. Oduduwa shall prevail.

bamidek:
Against the background of the increasing ethnic and political schisms in the country that have left the country in dire straits, is the emergence of some new kids on the block. They indeed looked like kids on the political plane.

For a group of middle-aged men and women who have made good success in their diverse various professional callings, the task they have set for themselves could undoubtedly be daunting. The political battle can only be compared to a David and Goliath rematch.
But for these new political kids on the block, comprising medical doctors, architects, lawyers, journalists among other leading lights in various professional endeavours, they are joined with the common aim of upturning the political landscape.
The Alliance for a New Nigeria, ANN could be the next big thing to happen to Nigeria, Dr. Jay Osi Samuels, a Havard trained physician and an alumnus of the scholarship programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation enthused as he sat down with a team of journalists in the Ikeja area of Lagos last weekend. The mission of ANN he said is “to be the driver of a new movement to retire and replace the old generation of leaders.”
Having been on the political sidelines, he had seemed satisfied to occupy himself in his profession of medicine which has seen him evolve into a medical entrepreneur having pioneered the country’s first medical aesthetics and cosmetics dermatological supply and distribution company; he said he was comfortable enough not to be bothered by the malfeasance of the system.
But Dr. Samuels said the more they stayed out, the more he discovered that no one could be secured from the failures of the government.
Hence, he and some other professionals got around to form and register ANN as a political group to take the baton away from those he termed as professional politicians who he said have made a mess of the country.
“Why do you think Tu Face was successful? Because Nigerians are looking for someone to show leadership and they are not seeing it,” he said of the initiative by him and some fellow technocrats still presently engrossed in their professions but still putting out their time and money to form the ANN.
Giving his experience of the challenges he faced when he returned to Nigeria, he said:
“When I came back from the US, my friends asked me whether I was serious about staying in Nigeria and that I had better go back, but I said I am not going back and that this is my country and that this is where I am going to live.
“Then they said I had better think of forming my own government! Then I said what do you mean by having your own government? Then they told me you have your own house, your own borehole, your own power and that that is the only way you can survive.”
Dr. Samuel continued with his own business but increasingly saw that the failures of government continued to push at him.
“Some of us have said we will do our business and I will have nothing to do with government. But over the years, the government has been encroaching on our space by not doing the things that they are supposed to do regarding bad policies and bad policy implementation.”
The ANN, Samuels said, has filed papers with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and is presently in the final process of being registered as a political party. The group meanwhile through its website, www.alliancefornewnigeria.org has been waging a massive social media campaign to woo more and more members which according to Samuels presently stand in the thousands.
Asked if the group would shut its doors to those who do not identify themselves as technocrats, he said:
“This would not be a party only for technocrats. It is a party for every Nigerian, and we are trying to set a difference between us and the professional politicians. When you say technocrats, technocrats are experts. We believe that a technocrat has a better chance of being a good manager of resources of people than somebody who is not.”
“People who have been participating in the democratic exercise are less than 30%; so we are looking at those people who have not been participating, more than 70%. Because the feeling is that those who get into politics are those who failed in society, but we believe that by coming out as a group of technocrats, that class of people who do not participate will be motivated to step forward to participate or even to serve.”
“The difference between the group we are putting together and the other groups is that the professional politicians play politics, that is all they do, they don’t have any other means of livelihood. They want to be put in a particular position, make money, and that is it. But we have the perspective of coming to serve; it is open to everybody.”
“We are looking at students, young adults, and young professionals and they are the ones that form the bulk of the 70% that do not participate in politics, and we have strategies already to make them participate. So, what we are doing is packaging ourselves as a body that will be irresistible to that segment of society. But that, even if you are a bricklayer you are still welcomed to be part of the body.”
He said the goal is to get at least 10 million persons who are presently not within the captive base of the present political parties into their base.
On the prospects of the group and why it was formed, he said:
“We see ourselves as the vehicle for the true change that every Nigerian desires. For me stepping out to take up this task was not easy because I could have stayed in my comfort zone and said to myself that I had nothing to lose.”
“But when it comes to Nigeria, our children and our children’s children will have us to blame if we don’t speak up and come out and do something about it.”
Noting how the country was faced with difficult choices in 2015 and how four years that the country may have no choice at all to make, he said:
“In 2015 we were stuck with two alternatives, and by all accounts, those two options were not palatable for most of us. But people still made a choice, and that choice is the reason we are here today.
“Now we are going to 2019, and we may not even be able to have the choice of a platform because we believe that the two major political parties are nonexistent. That is why we are creating a platform to make ANN that credible platform that people can have hope and trust in to lead Nigeria out of the current situation we are in.”
Asked about the prospects of the group competing with the two major political parties now in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP he said:
“We are coming up to destroy that political space. We are using innovation and technology. We are actively as a first step going to register ten million members from that group that is not currently participating.”
“We are not competing with them for space; we are creating a new space that they don’t have control over. They will not know what hit them and that is what our game plan is.”
“We are not playing the game their playing, we are playing differently,” he affirmed.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/2019-technocrats-mobilise-battle-politicians/

eniwhy:
Why we Nigerians show support for retrogressive way of life? As soon as we usually endorse political party platform in Nigeria Godfatherism will always prevail good intention of patriots. Its an inherited hidden agenda that has destroyed Nigeria. Take a look since we got independence, the same set of people have dominated our nation up till date. Another instance is Lagos state, when Bola Ahmed was Governor he vowed that he was going to govern Lagos for 24 years. He spent 8 years, Fashola also spent 8 and will also complete his own 2 terms under the same man instruction. The same leadership and same mentality. How do we grow in that kind democracy? Nigeria need to divide or disintegrate so that we can be familiar with our own enemy. Yoruba adage, ki ale akata lona ki a to fi abo Lori ediye. Oduduwa shall prevail.

I agree with you for what u said, Take a look at it, when Buhari was Head of state, the Present President of France is 6 years Old, that tells us, those set of military people or politician still govern us till today.
If we should make a research on this, all this set politician, have govern us as military governor or head of State since 1960. Why do av sick president and old president, we need to think twice.
the Aim of this party was to involve youth of technocrat in politics in other to set ourselves free of those old politician that they are not ready to retired until they died.
most of the youth didn't partake in politics because we are tired of the God fatherism.
As we ever see youth that contest for president of governor before. Capital No.
We Youth Need Once Voice, in other to do so, we need a party, to chase this set of politician out of government, if we don't act one day, then we continue to complain forever.
Today is about 6 months now, a budget of this country is yet to be pass, we are all in darkness.
May God Help Us.

bamidek:


I agree with you for what u said, Take a look at it, when Buhari was Head of state, the Present President of France is 6 years Old, that tells us, those set of military people or politician still govern us till today.
If we should make a research on this, all this set politician, have govern us as military governor or head of State since 1960. Why do av sick president and old president, we need to think twice.
the Aim of this party was to involve youth of technocrat in politics in other to set ourselves free of those old politician that they are not ready to retired until they died.
most of the youth didn't partake in politics because we are tired of the God fatherism.
As we ever see youth that contest for president of governor before. Capital No.
We Youth Need Once Voice, in other to do so, we need a party, to chase this set of politician out of government, if we don't act one day, then we continue to complain forever.
Today is about about 6 months now, a budget of this country is not yet to pass, we are all in darkness.
May God Help Us.

sai ANN wallahi, anything to chase those old goons count me in. ANN!!! Nigeria will be great!