“You rise and fall with the quality of your leadership and Nigeria has had lousy leadership for a long time. You cannot give what you do not have until we begin to look at the people who we choose to lead us.

“And that’s the truth. I mean, in most parts of this country, you look at people who are leading you and you say, oh God, is this really the person? How did we end up here? You see it every day on the newspapers.

“You see it in the news. You see what happens in the legislature. You see the kind of debates that we are having, the kind of arguments that we have, the kind of time we waste on issues that are totally unimportant, the pettiness. You look at other countries, you look at other parts of the world, people are discussing climate change, discussing artificial intelligence.

“We are still talking about Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa, Northern or Christian, you know, that is, we are still mired in that debate. We are still in conversations that we had in the 1960s,”

— 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗼, 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱𝘂 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗶 𝗜𝗜 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 (𝗞𝗔𝗣𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧) 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆