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Leadership Deficit Pushed Me To Contest For President — Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu, who is cur­rently in India for the G-20 Summit, shared his conviction with Nigeri­ans during an interaction with them on Thursday evening.

He told them that leadership and public sector management deficit in the country made him to contest for the presidency.

The president called on Nigerians to harness the country’s rich diver­sity as a uniquely powerful tool for advancing prosperity and national development for the benefit of all citizens, emphasising that our di­versity must be leveraged to drive economic growth, innovation, and social progress.

“We are here to present a new future to you. A future of a country that is so rich, endowed, and highly populated. Very dynamic, unique in its culture, tradition, and ethnicity. That is what will make our prosper­ity possible, if only we can make use of our diversity for prosperity,” he said.

President Tinubu also told the meeting that he ran for the highest office in the country because of the fact that, despite the great human and natural resource wealth of the nation, the leadership and public sec­tor management deficit in the coun­try held Nigeria back from manifest destiny.

“We are not poor in knowledge. We are not poor in human resourc­es. We are only poor in management and leadership, and that is why I ran for president, to help all of us mould the soul of our country in the right direction,” the president said. ­

Reflecting on the trajecto­ry of his life, which prepared him for leadership, the presi­dent told the meeting that was attended by several Nigerian students studying in India, that with dedication, honesty, determination, and a change of mindset, they can reach for the top in their respective careers.

“Good education brought me here and I am happy to stand before you here as the President of Nigeria. I started small. I was a security guard. I was tutor in school. I was a brilliant student. I joined De­loitte and was trained by one of the biggest accounting firms in the world, because of my education,” the president recollected.

“When I joined them, I asked them, do you have branches in Nigeria and they said, ‘we have a lot of clients that will take you, if you want to go home.’ That’s how I got to ExxonMobil and was a very successful accountant, audi­tor-general, and treasurer, until I joined politics with a can-do attitude.

“You can also do it; do not be despondent in any way. Nigeria is ready to accom­modate all. It does not matter which part of Nigeria you are from,” the president noted.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, while addressing the students, explained that Pres­ident Tinubu’s foreign policy thrust included four Ds with one of them being diaspora, which focuses on improving the quality of services that Nigerians in the diaspora receive at Nigerian missions abroad.

“The issue of passport de­lays will be a thing of the past. You won’t have to wait indef­initely for your passports to be ready. Secondly, you are the first point of contact between Nigerians and other coun­tries. We can’t grow beyond what our people project. That is why it is very important for you to project a consistently positive image of Nigeria on­line and off-line,” Nigeria’s chief diplomat said.

Earlier, business magnate, Mr. Tony Elumelu, told news­men that Nigeria was the best place to invest and that a bet on Nigerians is one of the best bets anyone can ever make, citing Nigerian success in all countries of the world.

“We believe in Africa, but especially in Nigeria. An in­vestment in Nigeria promises a return that is scarcely found anywhere in the world and I do business across several continents,” the Africapital­ist said.

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