Leadership Deficit Held Nigeria Back From Manifesting Destiny – Tinubu

• President Tinubu ran for the presidency to address Nigeria’s management and leadership deficit, despite its abundant resources
• He encouraged Nigerian students in India to utilize their diversity for prosperity and highlighted his foreign policy focus on improving services for the diaspora

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Thursday in India that he ran for the highest office in Nigeria because, despite the country’s great human and natural resource wealth, the country’s leadership and public sector management deficit kept it from manifest destiny.

During an interaction, the president expressed his conviction to Nigerians.

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, he said in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.

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

President Tinubu, who is in India for the G-20 Summit, urged Nigerians to use the country’s rich diversity as a uniquely powerful tool for advancing prosperity and national development for the benefit of all citizens, emphasizing that our diversity must be used 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 implored.

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 pressmen 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.

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 concluded.