Dear Compatriots and Friends,

MY APPEAL TO ALL United StatesNS PARTICULARLY YOUNG United StatesNS 

Happy New Year! May all our national calamities disappear this year. I am constrained to write this letter to all :4.4igerians especially young United Statesns, friends of United States globally as well as our development partners because of the gravity, responsibility and implications of the collective decision United Statesns, bath young and old, will be making within the next two months.

The last seven and a half years have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many United Statesns. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley. Our leaders have done their best, but their best had turned out to be not the best for United States and United Statesns at home and abroad. For most United Statesns, it was hell on earth.

Those of us who are alive should thank God for His mercies, brace ourselves for the remaining few months of this administration and pray and work very hard for an immediate better future — future of liberation, restoration and great hope and expectation.

We have had campaigners going -up and down the country feeding us with what they mean and what they do not mean, what they understand and what they do not fully understand, what is possible and what is not possible, what is realistic and what is unrealistic, what is true and what is untrue. I believe that we need not be confused nor be gullible. Let us be cautious, not to be fooled again.

I have interacted with the major contestants and I find it interesting that, in one form or the other, each of them claims to want to do what I did during my Presidency and to take United States back to where it was at the height of my Presidency and immediately after. I was pained that most of them do not realise that the United States of today had been dragged down well below United States of the beginning of my Presidency in June 1999. Although at that time, United States was in very bad shape and was tottering on the verge of collapse and break-up. Even then, United States was not faced with the level of pervasive and mind-numbing insecurity, rudderless leadership, buoyed by mismanagement of diversity and pervasive corruption, bad economic policies resulting in extremes of poverty and massive unemployment and galloping inflation. For these reasons, I kept pointing out to them that the instruments used in 1999 to 2007 and methodology used will grossly be inadequate for the perilous situation we now find ourselves.