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Thank you for inviting me to this important town hall event in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am delighted to be here, in the friendly, warm and welcoming City of Charlotte. My sincere gratitude to all of your for coming out to interface with me.

Some of you are here in America by choice; but majority are not here by choice. Circumstances at home have compelled your sojourn here. But I also know this much: If your hearts were not in Nigeria, you won’t be here this evening. So, once again, I thank you for being here.

Nigeria Diaspora family has the capacity to catapult our nation to greatness.

In 2021 Nigeria’s foreign direct investment (FDI) was $4.8 billion. This is paltry compared to Diaspora remittances. Therefore, I see Diaspora remittances as the new normal and becoming Nigeria’s Official Development Assistance (ODA).

Moreover, expert assessments are indicative that with proper policy and planning, Nigerians in Diaspora could potentially remit about $60b annually; which will translate to about 14% of our total GDP.

I foresee a Diaspora role of infinite possibilities when and if our sons and daughters, elect to deploy their technology, expertise, industrial discipline and experience, to Nigeria for national development and encourage their hosts and friends to invest in Nigeria.

The Nigerian Diaspora can help to mobilize efforts in the direction of private sector investment. Beyond your sheer financial power, your contributions also include ideas, creativity, and a diverse global network.

Our vision and mission is to give full expression to our democracy by moving our country from consumption to production.

In transforming the economy we intend to make it more productive, thus creating employment and prosperity for millions of youths, reducing poverty in the land, addressing issues of criminality and insecurity.

Thinking through 2023 and beyond, we must think seriously about a leadership that is imbued with competence, capacity, credibility and commitment. The 4 Cs, will be required to turn Nigeria around.

We will pursue intangible assets of good governance, rule of law, security of lives and properties; and emphasize patriotism, national interest, and national morale, quality of government, political will and character, which are all complimentary to the other assets.

We will ensure that we have these assets in place and stress asset optimization.

We will tackle insecurity robustly, through an aggressive increase in personnel and equipment and inclusive training of operatives in our security agencies.

We will tweak the security architecture, by offering each arm or agency lead in areas where they have comparative advantage.

We[b] intend to lay special emphasis on critical infrastructure, especially Power, to ensure a clear measurable increase of 200% of today’s generation, transmission and distribution, within the shortest possible time through public private partnership.[/b]

We will pursue aggressively modalities for raising the national internet penetration, as well as increased contribution of ICT to overall economic growth aid national development.

Africa will remain the centrepiece of our foreign policy. We will improve Nigeria’s diplomatic sphere of influence via peacekeeping, trade, and investment initiatives.

We[b] will pay particular attention to tackling Nigeria’s myriad domestic challenges, in particular improving governance and promoting national cohesion in as much as an active foreign policy critically depends on a vibrant and peaceful domestic situation.
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We will rebuild Nigeria’s military power, promote economic growth, and enhance its technological prowess to improve Nigeria’s diplomatic influence in sub-regional, regional and global affairs via peacekeeping activities.

We will proactively reassert Nigeria’s leadership role in African affairs through constructive engagement, using existing sub-regional and regional forums as well as bilateral platforms for dialogue on current and emerging challenges.

We will aggressively pursue human capital development in the education and health sectors within available resources; with a view to adopting pertinent global best practices in both sectors.

We will have zero tolerance for corruption; block leakages and cut the cost of governance. Our total commitment to transparency and accountability in government business is the only credible way to achieve limited to zero corruption.

We will seek to reunite Nigeria through strict adherence to Constitutional provisions on equitable representation in Federal establishments and regenerate a sense of belonging to all citizens through inclusivity and adequate representation of women,

The review of the Constitution will be part of the overall restructuring Nigerians desire. It will entail legislative, executive and judicial actions. Ultimately the Nigerian people will decide.

It will take only one visionary leadership and disruptive thinker for Nigeria to be put back on the right trajectory. I know that with a robust diaspora support we can do it for Nigeria.

Even though the outlook seems bleak, especially with the present state of insecurity ad parlous economy, things, I am certain that with your avid prayers and contributions in both human and material terms, Nigeria will recover.

Special thanks go to Chief Johnny Obika and Dr. Ben Okwara for coordinating this event.

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You want made in Nigeria and locally made products and they got you one

Very ugly looking

Delta, Imo and Borno State Governments have all donated operational vehicles to the army and police in recent month.
E reach Gov Masari turn… look at the scrap metal presented to the Army.

Katsina Govt Donates 9 APCs To Aid Fight Against Banditry

by Godwin Enna 12 hours ago

The Katsina State government has donated nine Amoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to be deployed in the frontline Local Government Areas (LGAs) mostly affected by banditry in the State.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari, who inspected the vehicles alongside some top government officials and security chiefs on Tuesday in Katsina, said with the addition of nine APCs, the State now has over 30 APC vehicles to fight the bandits.

Affirming that government will win the fight, even though it was a tough and challenging time, he said the government and security operatives are equal to the task of dealing with the situation.

“We are now working with the Commissioner of Police and also a local producer in Kaduna to produce more APCs. We have gotten the quotations and the IG has given us an additional two, we have paid for their repairs in Kaduna.

“With these nine, we have over 30 APC vehicles in Katsina State. Though I don’t know what the military have but from the Police and our efforts, I’m sure we have over 30 APC vehicles in Katsina, and more are still needed to confront this issue of bandits who are becoming more sophisticated and daring.

“Also working to provide relief to those who are seriously affected by the activities of bandits across the State. We have national and state programmes to provide succour to the victims.

“I’m happy to say that of recent, the response time of security operatives has improved. Whenever there is SoS, the response is always better than before, and I think we will continue with the cooperation of the people,” Masari said.

He then lamented the activities of informants, which he described as the biggest problem, urging members of the public to always report suspicious movements around them to security operatives for quick response.

Our attention has been drawn to this video recording below. Persons with information concerning the persons involved can send a DM or call 08000333333 to report.

A video has been circulating which has me seemingly endorsing former governor Peter Obi. This video was shot in 2018 at DC, when we both went for the National Prayer Breakfast. I meant everything I said there. I was trying to promote him as a running mate to Waziri Atiku Abubakar and I succeeded in that project because he emerged as a running mate in 2019.

Now, thereafter we felt that he was also going to emerge as the running mate in 2022. He didn't consult any of us, he just left the party. But that was not. . .I mean, is not an issue. He has the right to do that.

But then, I began to be attacked on social media by certain persons and we did background checks on them and we found out the identity of one of them and on May 29, on a Sunday, Ex-Governor Peter Obi called me and said, "Reno, why are you against my candidacy"? and I explained to him, "Look, this is why I am doing this. Your followers, especially this person on Twitter, has been attacking me and it's not just enough that they are attacking me. They are also attacking my family, my children specifically".

And then he said that he condemned that. I said, no no, don't condemn that to me privately. Because Governor Peter Obi has also privately spoken to Pastor Poju and other people. I said, "No, it's not privately. You have to do it publicly". And I identified the person who was doing this and then he stopped, he paused, he spoke to somebody in the background and he said, "Look, I cannot condemn that particular person, but I'll make a general statement", which he did.

Now for three days that person stopped and then after three days he continued attacking me, my family, my children. And I sent a message to Ex-Governor Peter Obi, because he called me, I didn't want to call him, because I just don't know, he is in another camp, maybe I could be recorded. I was a former presidential spokesman, so everything in my life is documented.

And Ex-Governor Peter Obi did nothing about that person.

Now that person is the main Obidient on Twitter, a man, an Ipob agent, living in Abuja, posing as a woman and we've got everything, you know, I was a presidential spokesman for four years, so I've got sources in the DSS, so we've got IP tracing, the identity and after the 2023 election I'm going to take that person to court and expose them, but if I do that now, it's going to act as a distraction to my number one goal, which is the election of Waziri Atiku Abubakar as President of Nigeria.

But I just want to explain to my followers why I did that video and why I'm doing what I'm doing right now.

If Ex-Governor Peter Obi had called that particular person to order, I would have been indifferent to his campaign. I would have just focused on my candidate, but he didn't. I gave him the opportunity to do that and that's why I am doing what I am doing.

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