by Ayo Akinfe
Anyone aspiring to be the president of Nigeria in 2023 must be prepared to achieve mythical and biblical feats. Such a person must set him or herself impossible tasks to be completed by the end of eight years like the 12 Labours of Hercules such as:
Ayo Akinfe
[1] Wiping out Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) in the northeast of the country
[2] Getting every single cattle herdsman in Nigeria settled into one of six mega ranches to be located in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Niger states
[3] Generating, distributing and transmitting 50,000MW of electricity
[4] Eliminating the current scourge of kidnapping, banditry and the crime epidemic plaguing the country
[5] Increasing Nigeria’s current 3,600km of railway track to 40,000km
[6] Abolishing the current federal allocation formula and getting Nigeria’s states to become wholly self-reliant
[7] Getting every foreign manufacturer who supplies goods to Nigeria to open a manufacturing plant in the country. At the moment, Africa accounts for just 1% of global manufacturing. We need that figure to be at least 15%
[8] Increasing the literacy rate to 95% from the current 60%
[9] Increasing the doctor-to-patient ratio to the World Health Organisation (WHO) minimum of 1:1,000 from the current 1:2,500. India has for instance surpassed the WHO threshold
[10] Eliminating ethnic prejudice by getting Nigerians to see their state of birth as their state of origin
[11] Get us to generate at least 20% of our power from clean energy. This will be achieved through the construction of several mega solar farms and the world’s largest wind farm along our Atlantic coastline.
[12] Getting at least 50% of all elected and appointed officials to be women. Maybe start off by passing a law making it compulsory that we must elect at least 18 female state governors
