Your Excellency Mr. President,
This is a great moment of history in our Nation. Neither your quest nor our votes has bestowed upon you the responsibility of playing midwife to the birth of the new nation that is about to be birthed but the Almighty Himself.
We know you know our history; how our nation came to be in 1914 through the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates by the British Colonial masters. We also know that you know the meaning of our name Nigeria (Niger Areas). We know you know about our struggle for independence and the hope that it carried at the time. You also know about our independence in 1960 and the joy that heralded it, the hope, the aspirations and the dreams of the beautiful nation that we were to build.
You know what happened to that dream; betrayed by tribalism, selfishness, greed, incompetence, bad governance and many more. How our nation sacrificed merit and competence for what we today call: Zoning' (it didn’t always go by this name, we are sure you know).
Our nation, our Nigeria is endowed with all the best human capital that can be found anywhere on the globe, natural resources that are a dream to some of the most developed countries in the world. Our land is beautiful; our people are beautiful and ingenious. Ours is a land of hope, a land alive with possibilities.
These possibilities, this hope has time and again been betrayed by our past leaders; those who rigged their way to power, those who gunned their way to power and those who warped their way into power. They have left our land poor, desolate and desperate. They have broken, busted and disgusted our land and people. The international community has many a times described us as a failed state.
Our infrastructure are decayed and archaic, our manufacturing sectors and industries are not functional, our civil service is corrupt and unmotivated, our courts fail to give justice, our schools fail to impact functional knowledge, our teachers and professors are hungry and poor, our hospitals have failed to secure us health care and we lack discipline and accountability. Our policemen and women are ill-equipped and mostly corrupt.
Our nation needs change, our nation deserves change. We need to take our nation back from the hands of corrupt and inept leaders. They have been in power for 50 years and we have nothing to show for it.
The Presidency of our nation is an enormous responsibility that requires the greatest form of loyalty, dedication and honesty. It also needs a leader who is level headed, benevolent but pragmatic and detribalized.
Looking at your leadership style from the time you were Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President, Acting Vice President and now President, we believe that your style of leadership is what we need to move the country forward. In your short stay as our President you have quickly began charting a course for our country. You have started tackling key national issues such as a power supply, corruption, electoral reforms and also the volatile Niger Delta crisis. You have started changing the very bad image of our country on the globe and our nation is beginning to gain its proper place in the comity of Nations.
However, we have also noted that some minority of Nigerians have been attempting to persuade you not to contest the 2011 election under the guise of a so called zoning formula which has done nothing but put our nation on the endless part of retrogression.
What our nation, Nigeria needs is to emphasize the need for meritocracy rather than mediocrity, selflessness in service of the Fatherland rather than selfishness. Our leader for 2011 should be the very best we are capable of producing and therefore the contest must be open to all eligible Nigerians.
Our nation in this 21st century needs a leader who is not a tribal or zonal leader but a national one. One who will be elected leader on the strength of his ability, content of heart and character rather than the zone he belongs to. We need a leader who will build our nation, repair the ruins and engender hope and progress. The leader who will translate our collective dreams into a vision. A leader who will ensure that our courts dispense justice; our schools become a citadel of knowledge and research for the progress of not just our nation and continent but the whole of humanity. We need a leader that will formulate and implement policies that will drive our economy.
We identify you as such a leader. You owe it to Nigerians and to God to continue with the vigorous change you are injecting into our country. We are convinced that your policies so far and their implementations are leading our country in the right direction.
You have vowed to protect the constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria. It is your constitutional right to contest and you should exert that right for the sake and benefit of Nigerians. Nigerians are now more than at any other time awake and will no longer be diverted from the opportunity to move forward. The era of money politics and winner- takes-all must now come to an end. We need change, we demand it and we will settle for nothing less.
Your Excellency, Mr. President, to us Nigerians you represent the changing face of Nigerian Politics, the hope for a new direction in our Nation building. WE URGE AND IMPLORE YOU TO CONTEST THE 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
Your Excellency Sir, you, to us means GOODLUCK FOR NIGERIA and we are saying NIGERIA IS FOR GOODLUCK.
GOD BLESS YOU AND OUR GREAT NATION.
GOODLUCK FOR NIGERIA
