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You don’t think Obi is a good fit for the presidency?? Fine. Just point us to the person who is and we’ll vote for them.
Also y’all can’t repeatedly keep dismissing this one candidate without presenting an alternative with better prospects.
I got a Director of Engineering offer in big tech earlier this year. Top 10 US big tech. I was stoked.
It got rescinded weeks to my start date. I was devastated for months. I kept wondering why I would get the offer only to get rescinded and I started wishing they had just rejected my application.
But now I know why I got it. I got it to prove to myself that indeed, I am at that level, and I am making impact at that scale (because my impostor syndrome is terrible. I am literally always scared 😂😭)
Fast forward to today, I’m about to start adding so much value in my current role and I feel peace, purpose, and excitement.
A lot of times, that rejection (no matter the form it comes in) is redirection 💕💕
Nigerians are going to have to be as wary of Obi's cult members the same way we were wary of General Buhari's cult members, same way we warned about their propensity for violent and mindless support. People who cannot imagine life without a deity to worship, where they can suspend all common sense and become vicious against any who dares question their holy saviour. Nigeria will not change with this addiction to personalities and cults. It will change when no politician is above scrutiny, when Nigerians do not lower the bar for their tribesman and preferred candidate. Because every rotten thing the APC did in its primaries, was replicated in opposition primaries. And we see the candidates complaining loudly. If you claim your candidate is better, then you must lift the bar, not lower it. You do not help your candidate by kneeling at his feet and fellating him, while growling at those who point to the semen on your face. Get off your knees and treat politicians like those who work for you, not like cult leaders and messiahs. Ask yourself, do you want Nigeria to change, or do you want a new face in charge of your oppression?
We need to stop promoting these fatuous and simplistic “big bad West” narratives as a counterpoint to African development, which appeal to the visceral sentiment by repeating a “primordial fact of all history”- nations seek to dominate others for the benefit of their citizens.
1) The international market economy is NOT a branch of the International Red Cross
2) African nations are very much capable of directing their own resources and navigating the interminable course of their own destinies. To argue otherwise is to deny them of agency - 60 years after independence (where was China 40 years ago?)
3) You don’t hear that argument in Asia which shares a similar experience of colonialism.
4) Dangote and Kasapreko and Aba leather goods, etc are selling across Africa.
I said the narrative is simplistic. Let me tell you a story. I have spent the last 5 years and millions of my own money having invented a digital system for local currency Exchange (a retail component of the PAPSS currency exchange) that allows Africans (54 countries, 42 different currencies) to use their local currencies for cross-border trade (USD exchange depletes national reserves and attracts $5.3 billion in yearly costs).
The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
And African Central Banks? Only very few have responded positively. Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)
Make of this fact what you will.
We’re not ready for prime time
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Received 2 rejection emails from companies I love.
- Scaled 4 rounds
- Showed demos & recommendations,
- One of em (a FAANG) sent rejection after almost a one month wait
Jobs come & go but I’m in good health and surrounded by family & friends that love me.
Grateful for life.
My favorite book in high school was actually a four-volume set of books called "The World of Mathematics." My parents (neither of whom went to college) gave it to me as a present more than 50 years ago.
My dear @AishaYesufu,
I remember when you retweeted this quote of mine which in full reads: "Defend ideas. Not people. Never defend people. People are fickle, complicated. And even when you defend ideas, interrogate them until they prove worthy, fit for purpose; refine them. Ideas will not sneak up on you and have scandals. They will not be greedy and betray you."
I am recalling this because I think that of all the people I know who are entering politics, you are one of the most honest in intention, one of the most passionate, one of the least driven by pecuniary and parochial interests. And I see now that you have been somewhat edged out of what should have been an opportunity to participate freely and fairly in the primary elections for the FCT Senate seat.
In a sane country, just based on your history and capacity, you should have won that primary or at least had the chance to fairly compete. But I fear that so fiercely attaching yourself to an individual, (who himself is flexible and moving where he thinks he stands a better chance of a ticket) is going to make you increasingly defend processes that cannot be defended, like the way your own race was handled. Of course loyalty in politics is important, however the person you are loyal to is increasingly being pragmatic and will align himself with people you will have to defend against many of your own stated principles. For example, if you were not part of this process you would have condemned the (selective) decision not to conduct primaries for the seat you were vying for as undemocratic.
I also remember, just weeks ago, how passionately you encouraged Nigerians to register for and fully support the ADC as the political entity that was capable of moving Nigeria to a better place. Today you are asking the same people to join the NDC which your principal has moved to. You have said that even though Obi is your principal you will speak your mind if something is not right. I still believe you. But what has changed? Is the NDC better? Does it believe more in democracy? Are there better, less corrupt politicians there? Or is it that any political party that Obi joins, suddenly becomes the party that will liberate Nigeria? Why should Nigerians support this new special purpose vehicle (as opposed to just holding their noses and looking for halfway decent candidates across party lines)?
Another question is, what is your threshold for speaking truth to power now that you have joined politics? When he teams up with people you know to be corrupt members of the same political elite you have spent years denouncing? When you have been undemocratically edged out of a seat you should have contested? When he aligns with someone you have called corrupt in the past will you still "focus on the bigger picture"?
As a person who wants to trust you (and for others who will support you in your political journey) what is the brand of politics we should expect from you? A person who will follow Obi no matter where he goes? An independent conscientious politician who defends ideas and democracy instead of personalities? Will you drop the Aisha Yesufu brand that we know and love: the one who fiercely defends democratic values and speaks truth to power regardless of who is involved? Or will you be a pragmatic politician, going where there is a likelihood of political success?
None of this is calling you out. These are real questions I have, and I write it because I know you are also the kind of person who will speak up even when people they know are involved. And I know you are capable of critical thought.
Yours in democratic solidarity,
EJ.
Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare:
A highly educated Afghan woman.
First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University.
Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.