
Dr Maxwell Ubah
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Dr Maxwell Ubah
@drmaxwellubah
I help organisations align their culture with their strategy to deliver breakthrough performance. Strategy | Culture | Organisational Transformation.





Your Excellency, @atiku, I write this as a concerned Nigerian, appealing to you to help save our country from hurtling towards a cliff. The nation is bleeding. Lives are being lost daily. Businesses are struggling. Nigerians are hungry. Many are confused and even depressed. And the future does not look promising under the current administration. Nigeria needs you at this point. HOW DID WE GET HERE? This is not to apportion blame, but today is the symptom of a mistake made in 2015. In 2014, you believed it was the turn of the North that you left PDP and championed APC as the vehicle of change. That one decision is the major reason we are where we are today. Looking back, Nigeria might have fared better under the leadership of the PDP, as nearly every economic indicator has nosedived under the APC. THE OPPORTUNITY WE MISSED After APC’s disastrous eight years, it was time for the South to lead, based on the rotational principle adopted by most parties. You who championed the turn of the North refused to champion the turn of the South. Had you stepped aside and supported @PeterObi, who was your running mate in 2019, perhaps Nigeria’s trajectory would have been different. THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE YOU Recall that in 2022, many Nigerian youths appealed to you to step down and endorse Peter Obi, but you chose to run under the PDP. Where is the party today? A similar outcome may occur in 2027 if you run under the ADC. While I do not claim to be a prophet of doom, but if you couldn’t win when you had many PDP Governors, I don’t see a clear path for victory for you in 2027. THE APPEAL Now, as we approach 2027, I ask: would you, for once, consider setting aside your ambition to help correct what many see as a mistake in ushering in the APC? For the sake of posterity, can you make this sacrifice for the good of the nation? Can you play the role of a kingmaker and help ensure we get it right in 2027 by supporting Peter Obi as the ADC candidate? You have a choice: you can rewrite your legacy and help put Nigeria on the right track by subordinating personal ambition to the greater good of the nation, or you can pursue the same ambition that contributed to the PDP’s decline in 2023. This may be your one opportunity to make a defining contribution to the nation’s future. I sincerely hope you will take it. When the history of Nigeria is written in the future, 2015, 2023 and 2027 would be defining landmarks. I hope you would be on the right side of history this time. Nigeria needs you to save her by endorsing, supporting, and championing Peter Obi’s candidacy. God bless you. I come in peace.











