“My first point of call is to create this new tribe, and the new tribe is not a political party. It is a movement focused on values that shape human progress. In this, we understand, look, this politician settles against one another by talking about ethnicity, religion, and all of that.
“Nobody has become richer because of the ethnic group he comes from or has had a better life because of the religion he comes from. So they use it, and in this age, it’s very easy to play propaganda politics and put people against one another. In the end, everybody loses.
“We play a zero-sum game. So let’s accept certain fundamental values: the dignity of the human, human solidarity, and work ethic—all of those things.
“So we have an initiative to then say, Here is a political platform in development that’s values-driven, that has to have an ideology and goals that people can be held accountable for. All of this must be in place and tested before the people.
“It can happen fairly quickly—more than people realize. Look at what happened in Senegal. It can become more challenging, depending on how the young people in Senegal manage it.”
“Much more than that. I’m saying that we cannot exclude people because we’re creating cohorts; these are guys who know that what they did was not what’s best for the Nigerian people. They regret it, and they don’t know how to deal with it because of the nature of politics. To survive, they keep playing those funny games.
“Also, cohorts that deal with actually building a political party framework that delivers on the kinds of parties that are structured around the world—this is a party plan—this is where we’re going.
