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A group under the umbrella of Nigerian Patriotic Quest, NPQ has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele to immediately declare his intention to run for the 2023 presidential race.
The group of professionals both at home and in the diaspora in a statement signed by the co-ordinator, Ahmed Ja’Usman Tijani said:
“We the members of the Patriotic Quest (NPQ), a group of Nigerian professionals, mostly based in the diaspora, wish to declare for the umpteenth time that the moment is now for Godwin Ifeanyichukwu Emefiele to join the race for the presidency of Nigeria.
“We will continue to make this call because Nigeria is now at a crossroads and will require the care and nurture of a man like Godwin to take her to the promised land of rapid development.
In the past two decades, Nigerians have entrusted their fate in the hands of professional politicians with barely anything to show for it.
“If we must be honest to ourselves, we can say without any fear of contradiction, that the professional politicians have succeeded in running the nation aground.
“We have witnessed a relay race of politicians handing over the baton of leadership from one uneventful administration to the other.
“Our patience is totally exhausted.
We seek a new shift in leadership from the old to the new.
“We are not carried away by the rhetorics of the old brigade who are now catwalking the national walkways in order to sell to us their expired recipes.
Enough is enough!
“It is time for this nation to support and encourage the emergence of a new type of leadership.
“We yearn for the advent of the servant leader; who is there to serve and not to be served and celebrated.
“We need leaders who are ready to get their hands dirty in order to wash away the dross of over 50 years of misrule.
We believe that Godwin Ifeanyichukwu Emefiele falls squarely into the mold of leadership that the nation deserves at this time.
“We have watched, with great admiration, his dexterous and self-effacing management of the affairs of the CBN.
“We are astonished by the skillful manner with which the CBN intervened in the major sectors of the economy: agriculture, finance, industries, etc.
“Only recently, as Nigeria is once again enmeshed in the man-made tragedy of fuel scarcity and power failures, we read of his intention to use the instruments of the CBN to try and bring succour to our long suffering compatriots.
“This is the hallmark of a leader.
What distinguishes a great leader from others, is his ability to proffer solutions; that capacity to visualise and pursue relentlessly the vision that things could and would be better.
“If Godwin can make all these positive impact as the Governor of CBN, which is just a department in the huge edifice of governance, how much more if he becomes the President of the country.
We have said it repeatedly that the professional politicians, some of whom have become permanent fixtures of government in the past 20 years or more, with little or nothing to show for it, should respectfully step back and allow the new leadership to emerge.
“As a nation moves from one challenge to the other, it must evolve the right strategy to overcome those difficulties.
We have arrived at the point where the old solutions have failed woefully.
“Therefore, it is time to try the new and we, humbly assert, that Emefiele is in the vanguard of the new solutions.
Nigeria, at this time, needs a leader with a track record of achievements in management, entrepreneurship, and economy and has the right exposure to seat at the same table with the leading lights of the global economy.
“Nigerians! it is time for us to throw away the limiting baggage of ethnic, religious, and money politics and embrace a new way of doing things, if not for our sake but for the sake of our children’s children.
“The 2023 elections offers us a golden opportunity to begin the journey of repentance and recovery.
We simply cannot afford to repeat the errors of the past.