Thread by @MoghaluKingsley

My Nigeria Unity Agenda: Here’s how, as President, I will unify Nigeria, reunite Nigerians, and kill ethnic tensions:
1. Ensure structural justice and equity and increase economic opportunities in all parts of Nigeria. Support #Restructuring back to real federalism.

2. Fairness to all: Equal treatment under the law (no sacred cows, regardless of ethnic/religious affiliation).

3. Transparency. A leader builds trust when he/she has no hidden agenda and this is obvious in leadership actions and policy.

4. Patriotism education and propagation

of a vision of Nigeria that creates unity of purpose amongst all Nigerians. This will also be propagated using mass and social media (no “Twitter Ban”, instead we will use social media for national healing).

5. Communication. As President I will convincingly articulate a clear vision of Nigeria, communicated directly to our countrymen and women through town hall meetings across the country’s six geopolitical zones, speeches, press conferences, and other fora. We can rise. Yes we can!

6. Encourage healing exercises for the events of January 1966-January 1970, including truth and reconciliation, through public hearings convened by state governments. Rwanda has done this with its post-genocide “Gacaca” trials. I played a role in the international

dimension of this healing process as Legal Adviser & Spokesman for the @UN International Tribunal for Rwanda that indicted and prosecuted the architects of the genocide including former Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, Col. Theoneste Bagasora, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (former Minister

of Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women!) The International tribunal delivered the first-ever judgment by an international court for the crime of genocide. Other examples of national healing exercises : South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Truth and

Reconciliation Commision of The Gambia, and Canada’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. The report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission of Nigeria (Justice Oputa Panel) created by then President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 to investigate human

rights violations by Nigeria’s military regimes and reconcile communities in conflict, was not implemented, largely because of @SupremeCourtNg decision that state governments, and not @NigeriaGov , had the right under the 1999 Constitution to hold public hearings.

This is my vision for One Nigeria in practice. Unity in action, not “by mouth”. Unity in diversity (restructuring). A country where too much injustice and inequity exists can’t be united. And without unity we can’t achieve much because there is for now now shared vision of what

Nigeria means to each of us, its politics, and its economy. But it can be done. I apply for the job, because it needs to be done. I humbly say: I can.

I drop my mic.

*there is for now no shared vision...*