Odey Okabo Oboya Aduma, author of THE DREAM, a blueprint on National Rebirth and Good Governance already posted to the Presidency, and as witnesses, to Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Christian Association of Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Arewa Consultative Forum, all Governors, Mr Femi Adesina, NANS, UNICAL Students Union, New Estate Baptist Church, Surulere, the New Covenant Baptist Church, Ogba, Agege his two churches in Nigeria and three of his friends in the United Kingdom. It is believed that when posterity shall ask: WHAT DID YOU DO? at this time of NATIONAL EMERGENCY in your country, Aduma would be able to make reference to THE DREAM! In addition to this, he had earlier republished his 192-point ideas entitled: CONSTITUTIONAL AND RESTRUCTURING FUNDAMENTALS, first published whilst Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was President of Nigeria and posted to important offices in Nigeria and some former Heads of State, the PDP, APC, a former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Governors, the Police, the military, CAN, NSCIA, ACF, Ohaneze Ndigbo, OSGF, etc - this too, had been posted to important offices of the Muhammadu Buhari Government including Femi Adesina. Thenceforward, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team have no excuse any more for not moving the country forward. Once more, I reaffirm my faith in Nigeria now, and in her future by announcing to the world and posterity: I'M ADDICTED TO NIGERIA!

 Profeessor Wole Soyinka: A literary icon, not an economist. You are wrong W.S. Authority is not always right!

 Professor Pat Utomi: What ought to be the role of an economist at a time of national economic emergency?

Fellow Nigerians and all peoples of the world, this is to let you all know severally that I have just posted 19, 301-word economic blueprint entitled: THE DREAM: MY BEST DEAL FOR THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA to help the APC-led Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly arrest the dangerous drift of the ship of State in the mid ocean and to prevent the Government from wasting further precious time, limited resources at this time to hold any rubbish National Economic Emergency Conference (NEEC) as reportely suggested by Professor Wole Soyinka recently, but whose originality is now being contested by the National Economic Council.

I'm not going to go into any arguement over a call I consider thoroughly stupid to ask a sitting Government which has been in power for upward of nine months to hold a confab in order to have Nigerians donate ideas to them before they can kick-start the wheel of Government business - how embarassing! Were Nigeria a true democracy, and were there a credible Opposition in that country, and were we operating a Parliamentary system of Government, this is a calculated call to bring down the Government and plunge the nation into an unprecedented chaos. The simple question is, if Buhari and his cohorts in the APC together with his SIDDON DO NOTHING MINISTERS with Kemi Adeosun, MAMA ANKARA, the supposed Finance Minister now turned a mere CONTINUITY ANNOUNCER of the Government, don't have ideas to govern and if none of them has a blueprint, or plan of action or action plan to govern Nigeria, are they then waiting to be chased out by the people of Nigeria or ambitions khaki boys or they will heed the voice of wisdom, reason and resign?

Isn't it shameful and embarrassing that each time Wole Soyinka speaks, everybody in that country takes it as the absolute truth without controverting him and subjecting him to a thorough scrutiny? This national gullibility and idiocy have again confirmed my lamentation over the type of education we inherited from the colonialists (administrative-orientated-file-carrying-I-concur education or "what I wanted to say is what you have just said-type of education") and have not done anything to evolve our own indigenous type of education that is in tandem with the Nigerian/African reality since the independence in 1960. I have again and again called for the binning of this type of education. Asked to described this colonial education in two words, and I would not hesitate to scream out: ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!

Under the colo-type education we have inherited and have not done anything to reverse it for upward of 56 years now, our schools, colleges and the universities are mere human factories for the production of prospective or the next generation of arrogant/pompous lettered-illiterate elites or robbotic and crassly insensate idiots, who except to themselves, are incapable of offering any form of service to God, the community, the nation and posterity, but will soon cannibalise the commonwealth.

This latest from Soyinka and Nigerians echoing his call for an economic conference is a clear example of false appeal to authority! In any case, as far as the matter of economy is concerned, Soyinka sure is not an expert, nor is he an authority on economy matters, hence he must be humble enough to concede to the nation's economists who have disappeared the economic scene since the death of Pius Okigbo and Sam Aluko, leaving the nation's economic space for the roguery militants who are now the experts in everything as they forecast and decide on virtually everything Nigerian and threaten to make the nation ungovernable if things don't go their way, that this is outside his specialism, external locus of control and outside his expertise.

Lamentably, intellectuals like Professor Pat Utomi, a former lecturer of mine at the Lagos Business School during the African Strategic Leadership training in 2003, sponsored by the British Council and Shell, fawning to buy into the so-called call for an economic confab just because a Soyinka is believed to have called for such nonsense, instead of blasting off Soyinka into pieces, telling him off, commanding him to return to his comfort zone and letting him know you do not call a conference when a ship is capsizing - rather, Utomi added weakly and lamely it was a call he had been advocating all along. And now that the origin of this call is in dispute as the National Economic Council had claimed it was part of their deliberations at their last meeting, whereupon that call was made, so who then originated it between W.S. and NEC on one the one hand, and W.S. and PU on the other?

But isn't an intellectual of the standing of PU supposed to submit a blueprint to a Party and a Government for which he has an unparalleled sympathy until now that he appears to be on the retreat, tacitly withdrawing from the Government, all because his ministerial bid was binned by the powers that be?

I feel thorougly ashamed that for upward of 56 years that country has continued to grope in the dark and confused as to what economic system/trajectory/model it should adopt - the same confusion is playing out on the political landscape as well as in the cultural sphere.

But what type of economy are we running currently or should we be running currently or what type should we run - capitalist, communist, socialist, welfarist, MIXED ECONOMY or what? Aren't these yesterday's question, somebody?

The Government in which Utomi was excitedly a part until now, when he is half-cleverly and gradually distancing himself from, one, for his inability to clinch the ministerial diadem, 2, naturally, no one wants to identify themselves with failures, especially STUPENDOUS FAILURES, like the APC's, is thoroughly confused such that it has been oscillating from capitalism to welfarism, courtesy of their ill-conceived freebienomcs, welfarism to socialism, socialism to mixed, mixed to theocracy, courting the Middle East, having been abandoned by the capitalist West as a liability, together with their Islamic Development Bank in its bid to outsource the governance of Nigeria to the Muslim Ummah, especially to the so-called "Our Brothers and Sisters" "to come and enlighten Nigerians" and gyrating round and round all over the place, dancing naked with a bowl and longish walking stick singing: Allah bani ku di, bani Allah...," whilst the ship of State totters in the mid ocean in a stormy gale without the captain.

MUHAMMADU BUHARI, NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD A MOST HOLY FAITH IN NIGERIA AND AMONGST NIGERIANS...BUT WHAT WOULD FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT DO (WWFDRVD)?

Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

FDR...The 32nd American President: "...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of selfseekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.

Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.

***Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.

Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

There are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress in special session detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several States.

Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo. Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.

The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States—a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others—the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.

It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.

But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do no less.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of the national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stem performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.

We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.

In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.

Source of the FDR's Inaugural Address: JCCIC

*Since 1901, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has been responsible for the planning and execution of the swearing-in ceremonies and the luncheon for the Inauguration of the President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol.

God bless our Nigeria.

FROM THE VOICE OF ONE...

Proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNTY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON)

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