With the current economic realities in which majority of states
in the country cant pay salaries, perhaps its past time we
considered a new a new strategy: put a hardcore capitalist at
the helm of affairs. And who better than the countries biggest
capitalist! Here are five reasons why Aliko Dangote should be
Nigeria's next president.
1. Efficiency: Some of the country's biggest challenges include
corruption and bureaucracy. For a man who turned a small
trading firm he founded in 1977 into a multi-trillion naira
conglomerate, managing one of the most bureaucratic nations
in the world should be an interesting challenge.
2. Popularity: any Nigerian home or abroad who has access to
any form of media be it radio, TV or the internet will most
likely know who Aliko Dangote is. With that sort of popularity
selling him as a presidential candidate would be easy for any
political party.
3. Spotless: in a country where almost every popular person
has one corruption scandal or the other, the man has
managed to keep a image clean. In fact, the only scandal he
almost had was when a certain Miss Sylvia Nduka was
rumored to be his girlfriend. An allegation in which both he and
the lady in question denied.
4. Business minded: no disrespect to president Buhari, but he
needs to upgrade his financial intelligence. To spend more
money, you have to first diversify your income stream. The
school feeding program, 5000naira for the poor amongst other
liabilities without having a long term financial sustainability
plan for these programs will end up doing more harm than
good.
5. There is no one else: the main opposition party, the PDP is
struggling with internal crisis. It doesn't look like they will be
producing a president anytime soon. The ruling APC for now
doesn't seem to have any electable presidential material. A
presidential material with popularity and the political muscle to
unite the country, and most importantly one with no corruption
scandal seems to be lacking in the country right now.
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