United Kingdom slam 3000 pounds Visa bond on Nigerians: Prince Frank Ukonga appeal to H.E. David Cameron to stop the implementation in the spirit of commonwealth of Nations.

United Kingdom slam 3000 pounds Visa bond on Nigerians: Prince Frank Ukonga appeal to H.E. David Cameron  to stop the implementation in the spirit of commonwealth of Nations.

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga the chairman SDP Edo state appeals to the Government of the United Kingdom and to His Excellency David Cameron to reconsider the proposed 3000 pounds Visa Bond on Nigerians traveling to the United Kingdom in the spirit of the commonwealth of Nations and the great brotherhood of Nations being developed by the new policy thrust of the Union of Commonwealth of which the United Kingdom Government is the unquestionable leader of such a great union of Nations . Most of the Nations in the Commonwealth were former British colonies and in the spirit of Mother/ Son and Daughter relationship it would be apolitical and unfriendly to begin to slam such bonds on members of the Commonwealth great family, rather this is the time to come to the aid of Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa  to help solve the security challenges and stand by us as we need all the moral and material support of the entire friends of Nigeria to be able to survive this truculent, turbulent times in our historical development.

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Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- Chairman SDP Edo state of Nigeria.

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Frank Ukonga lecture 25: Salvaging the world/Western Civilization from Economic and cultural collapse: the urgent need of 3 -5 trillion dollars bailout, a Functional Overview

G8 LEADERS OF THE WORLD

Frank Ukonga lecture 25: Salvaging the world/Western Civilization from Economic and cultural collapse: the urgent need of 3 -5 trillion dollars bailout, a Functional Overview.

The World/Western civilization is heading for an economic and cultural collapse at the first quartile of the 21 century. There is an urgent need of 3-5 trillion dollars for the western hemisphere if they are to maintain status quo ante bellum into the middle quartile of the 21 century. There is also an urgent need to reinvent the west culturally, educationally and in the aspects of competitive production, reinventing new bilateral production relations, in the evolving world of laser fair and pluralism.

Historical perspective: The west has been spent out in a war of necessity in the Middle East, her NATO allies and the United States. After about 3 decades of continuous wars in the  Middle East; the attention and focus of the west to winning this wars was diverted from economic and industrial conquest of the world. And as in an oxymoron they ware   inevitable wars to keep the status quo of the world and guarantee the leadership of western hemisphere. So the west and NATO Alliance are on the right track but at the expense of economic and industrial competitiveness in a world of laser fair.

Marshal plans and Bail Outs: The first and second world wars witnessed deliberate

injection of fresh bailout of the economies of the western hemisphere by the United states as in the Marshal plans and the Breton wood Heritage and similarly the middle east wars of the past 3 decades can be assumed as the 3ed world war particularly in the financial and material costs which though astronomical but a necessary bitter pills to maintain world stability, peace, and detente..And the current era of post war economic crash must be tackled by same stimulus package if the west is to keep the status quo ante bellum and survive the economic and industrial down turn.

The Crash of the West: In contemporary times it is becoming obvious that the crash of the west is a Causality of a combination of economic, industrial and cultural melue that has drastically plummeted to truculent margins. The unemployment statistic is staggering as some western Nations have as high as 30 to 40 % of its productive work force unemployed. The comparative competitiveness of the western  industries has  lagged behind many emerging Euro Asian Tigers in the aspects of mass production and perhaps of affordable  quality service delivery to the world market. The Research And Development and Research and innovation portfolio of the west in the aspects of investing competitive edge has also been portable in the past 4 decades which has adversely affected the demands of western origin goods in the international markets due mainly to prohibitive cost of production caused by the opulence of the middle and upper quartile of the previous century which jacked up the living standards of the west in the halcyon days of comparative western leadership of the global village economically , industrilly and culturally.

Post industrialism vs. industrial concepts: A functional analysis: The western economies led by the United states have leap fogged and frog jumped into a novae height of post industrialism but with feet of clay which got crushing at the least prodding in the world of economic and industrial competition from dangerously calculating industrializing Nations of Emerging g Asian Tigers who out of cheap labor and at the  mortgage of quality has pulled the carpet from the feet of western Nations with impunity , and indignation. A Functional approach to this phenomenon should witness the west devaluation of its convertible currencies, and taking a step backward into the class of reinventing competitive production lines and the evolution of novae bilateral and multilateral production and industrial relations which would modify the concepts of laser fair and that of GATT and WTO slightly steadily tilting the protocols of “the game without rules “ to the advantage of the western side of the divide.

The west holding the Bull and the Euro Asian Tigers Milking it: The western world is spending trillions of dollars, men and women and great material investment in keeping , and maintaining world peace, stability and avant-garde progression into the future while Euro Asian Tigers are busy milking the bull. As soon as the West librated Iraq India, Indonesia and china moved in peddling their cheep goods with a cynical diplomatic melue of a friendly lesser evil to the newly liberated states of the Middle East. This became acceptable and tolerable to the vast majority of the Middle East. Same thing they did in Afghanistan, Egypt, Tunisia and the bulk of Asian Minor and Africa. While the west were busy assisting to establish vibrant democracies in Africa; as soon as this is achieved from Nigeria to Ivory Coast to Gabon to Congo  and South Africa the Euro Asian economic and industrial expansionist enters the emerging democracies with cheap sub standards goods of Africa variation classified as underdeveloped aspects of the world but with huge economic , market, and industrial potential.

Sino –West/World Relations: China in Vision 2020, Targets doubling GNP by 2020: There is an urgent need for the west and the G8 to critically evaluate the Sino West and Sino World relations which from critical analysis is furnace out of a crass policy of economic and industrial expansionism and domination of the world by whatever means possible. In contemporary time the Sino World relation has been taken to new heights of Arms race, space competitiveness , information , industrial colonization and imperialism of the global village. This became evident in the recent congress of the Communist Party of  China where it posited a target of doubling its Gross National Product by the year 2020 and rejiging the communist party bringing in more intelligentsias as well and a new policy trust in R and D R and I. And a new offensive to colonize many African Nations and other emerging democracies of the world. If the Sino West / World relations are to be continuously tolerated then China is  expected to provide the bulk of the bailout fund of at least 2 trillion dollars of the needed 3-5 trillion dollars bailout of the world from economic collapse. Otherwise there is the urgent need for the west to reevaluate the Sino west relations based on economic and diplomatic Balance of trade relation and the urgent need for  the protection of local industries from dangerously calculating expansionists.

The EEC-PIGS Relations- the imperatives of a new approach: The problems of the PIGS States of the EEC in the context of acute economic problems has snowballed to new thinking that the problem may not be that of illiquidity but insolvency which manifested out of decades of industrial and economic stagnation and uncompetitiveness in the emerging order of laser fair. Whence this coupled with some taint of financial and budgetary recklessness that has led to an astronomical debt burden of more than 350 billion dollars unserviceable and insolvent. A bad case. This secondary backlash of this manifested in inflation , unemployment and closure of many businesses within the wealthiest world economic community the EEC. And for the bail out to be effective there is the need to exercise some control over the economies of the PIGS States by the finance department of the EEC and also to directly manage the bailout as conditionality for assistances otherwise it would be a forlorn hope just pouring hard money into the economies of the PIGS States in the sake of bail out.  And in  general for the EEC to remain wealthy and healthy there is the urgent need of all member states to conform to budgetary and financial control of the economic and financial regulations and recommendations of the EEC perhaps there is the need to persuade Britain and Germany to accept these new conditionality’s for the benefit of all member states and the new world order in generality.

United States- EEC Relations: The United States is a traditional partners of the EEC and the relation has become a Siamese marriage of convenience but in recent times, the United States are trying assiduously to decouple itself from the economic quagmires of the EEC and looking inwards to rejg its internal economy. This strategy has excercerbated the economic woes of the EEC in general. But the right thing to do is for the United States to come out boldly to salvage the EEC from this economic crisis by providing a sizable portion of the bailout fund for the world to be back on sound track. In this context the United States whose debt portfolio is in the neighborhood of 20 trillion dollars will not edge over if it  goes a little further in to a new debt of 2-3 trillion dollars to bailing out Europe, United States and Africa from immanent economic collapse . The idea of H.E. Bill Clinton of the clintonian economic theory of recalling American funds in excess of 2 trillion dollars outside of America for the bail out of United States economy is good but in the Schumpeterian sense, is a parochial polit economic thinking. As these strategy potent grave dangers for the future world outreach and significance of the united states in  an emerging new world order  of finance backed diplomacy and economic reciprocities. Dialectics and historical movement of capital has proved without doubt that shrinking inwards is a dangerous strategy as it cost far much higher to reposition modern states to same status quo ante bellun after a brief period of shrinking which though envisaged as temporary but begins to wear the semblance of reality and  permanence in a portable distance of history yonder…..as symptoms of a state in decline. We must differentiate the methods of bailout of companies with limited liabilities from the bailout of Nations and states. The ingenious bailout of Lee Iacocca of Chrysler motors in the 90s by the applications of shrinking concepts and prudent reallocation of funds and functions cannot be near similar to the bailout of the United States economy and the world in the 21 century. And in this context Adams smith, Ricardo , Keynesian and classical economic theories are at Concordia that more capital injection and infusion would always be needed and applicable for bailout of Nations in decline. Of course we need to harp on prudency, invigorate research and development, research and Innovations addressed to  become more competitive .And even drastic policy of restrictions on imports addressed to protect local industries could be considered as rational and expedient. To encourage exports the United States may kill several birds with one stone by considering devaluation of the dollar by 7-10%. Which will just be adequate to provide the bailout funds for the world as well as rejig the United States economy back on track?

Sino United States Relations: There is the urgent need for serious bilateral talks between the United States and China addressed to reposition the trade imbalance between the two great Nations which has made china richer and the United States resilient.

Sino African Relation: Malam Sanusi Lamido the Governor of the central Bank of Nigeria, in his well publicized article published by Vanguard Newspaper of the 16 th of March 2013, has warmed all African states of the new trends of underdevelopment that is unfolding in Africa due to the dumping of sub standard Chinese goods in the African market and closing the shops of local manufacturers as dangerous and potent grave dangers that will inhibit there rapid industrialization of African countries and proffers solution of Sino African relation on the basis of technological transfer attached to access to the African market in the emerging Sino African relations which many sees as a rightly guided streams of consciousness.

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

Chairman SDP Edo state & Presidential Aspirant 2015

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Prince frank ukonga comments on the G8 summit of 2013-the world need at least 2 trillion dollars to bail it from economic collapse-

Prince frank ukonga comments on the G8 summit of 2013-the world need at least 2 trillion dollars to bail it from economic collapse-

The new cooperation of the G8 is good but will not solve world economic crisis..what is needed is a marshal plan that will require the G8 investing about 2 trillion dollars to recapitalize the capitalist western hemisphere after the 20 years of middle east wars most western nations are spent out and by the laws of Malthusian regeneration of wealth, the capitalist west needs an injection of new big capital every 100 years to rejig the system to its new level or perhaps maintain status quo anti bellum...and that was what we americanologists expected president Obama to propose to her European partners when he visited Britain in 2011 April to address the joint session of the British Houses , he was expected to recreate the Yalta spirit of the meeting between Wilson Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin which heralded the new world after the second world war...but unfortunately by act of omission and commission this was derailed, and this would have given President Obama

a place in history of the level of Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln..but now it had been derailed...,that was why i posed the question of the European economic crisis to the students of Eton, Sorbonne, Princeton, Yale Oxford, Cambridge and all Ivy league universities of the world and they could not solve the problem... the solution is above...the world has to come together to raise at least 2 trillion dollars to bail the world from economic collapse..

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

 chairman SDP Edo state of Nigeria/presidential aspirant of the Nigerian Federation 2015

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Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga Morns the death of Alhaja Abibatu Magaji the Matriarch of the Tinubu Family AND offer my deepest condolence to His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and family.

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga Morns the death of Alhaja Abibatu Magaji the Matriarch of the Tinubu Family AND offer my deepest condolence to His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and family.

I prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga today morn the death of Her Excellency Alhaja Abibatu Magaji the Iya Oloja of Lagos state, the Iya oloja of Nigeria, and Africa. Your times witnessed the most monumental transformation and revolution in the affairs of the Yoruba Race,Nigeria and Sub Saharan Africa. You are a great mother to all of us who you have blessed at various times and the blessings are coming to pass in our lives and i prince frank onaivi ukonga is a living testimony of the prayers and blessing you gave me during the novelty match of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola at the Alimosho football pitch. You blessed me, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Oluremi Tinubu at the same time, same day and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has redeemed his own blessing to become the governor of Osun state, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu has redeemed her own by becoming a Senator of the 7th Republic, i have tried to redeem my own blessing by contesting the senate of Edo North in 2011 and the Edo State governorship polls of 2012 and hopefully soon my own time will come.It is only painful That you left without seeing me become the governor of Edo state as you would be the mother of Edo state when i become the governor. But nevertheless i wish you the best of every thing as you sleep in the bosom of our lord.Amen.
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Chairman SDP Edo state./ governorship candidate Edo state 2012.

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Prince Frank Ukonga wishes all Fathers of the world ; Happy Fathers Day.

Prince Frank ukonga SDP Chairman Edo state addressing the press recently.

Prince Frank Ukonga wishes all Fathers of the world ; Happy Fathers Day.
The chairman SDP of Edo state Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga wishes all Fathers in Nigeria, Africa and the entire world with the celebration of Happy Fathers Day. This is a period to reflect on our great roles as fathers of our families, Nations and the World
on our shoulders rests the destinies of our family, Nations and the entire planet. we should emulate the virtues of rectitude addressed to jockey mankind toward better standards of rational eudimonia.
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Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga

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Prince Frank Ukonga,SDP Edo state, greets all Nigerians and all Social Democrats of the World on the occasion of June 12 anniversary.

MKO Abiola of SDP

Prince Frank Ukonga,SDP Edo state, greets all Nigerians and all Social Democrats of the World  on the occasion of June 12 anniversary.

Today June 12; we celebrate one of the greatest revolution in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa where more than 16 million Nigerians came out to vote for SDP 20 Years ago to usher into being the government of Basorun MKO Abiola in one of the most freest and fairest polls in the annals of Nigerian as well as sub Saharan history.Though the election was annulled by various acts of omissions and commissions; the subsequent events that followed snowballed as the remote and direct progenitor of the contemporary democratic dispensation of the past 14 years in Nigeria.We commend the activities and tenacity of all Nigerians and our fans worldwide who are stakeholders in the Nigerian project for standing by Nigeria at the hour of greatest truculence. Above all it will be proper 20 years after June 12 to officially repair the winner of the June 12 election properly in history. Which will translate to recognizing the Mandate of Basorun MKO Abiola officially and position him appropriately bya bill to Recognize and acknowledge  the period of his  mandate as the era of His Presidency posthumously.

Long live SDP, Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Henry Ogbemudia- secretary SDP Edo state

Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- Chairman SDP Edo state.

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ITV Debate: 14 years of Democracy in Nigeria- 1999-2013 Score card: Held on Sunday 2ed June 2013 @ itv studio Benin.Discussants H.E. Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- SDP Leader Edo state, Hon. Peter Eson former Special Adviser to Edo State Government on Foreign Affairs , and Director of Public affairs Edo state, Hon. Greg Ogigua, moderator Ace presenter Mr. Wilson.

ITV Debate: 14 years of Democracy in Nigeria- 1999-2013 Score card: Held on Sunday 2ed June 2013 @ itv studio Benin.Discussants H.E. Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- SDP Leader Edo state, Hon. Peter Eson former Special Adviser  to Edo  State Government on Foreign Affairs , and Director of Public affairs Edo state, Hon. Greg Ogigua, moderator Ace presenter Mr. Wilson.

Itv Mr. Wilson: Welcome to this Itv debate on scoring the Nigerian 14 years of Democratic dispensation. As the President of Nigeria  is marking his Mid term anniversary and stock taking, President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the public to score his government and the democratic dispensation addressed to be more interactive and committed to adequate service delivery to the electorate.How would Hon. Peter Eson score the 14 years democracy in Nigeria.?

Hon Peter Eson: I give the democratic dispensation of the past 14 years a pass mark. I score the era 52%. A lot has been achieved within the past 14 years in Nigeria in the context of quality service delivery compared to the preceding era but much more still need to be done…

ITV Mr Wilson: And how would Hon Greg Ogigua score the present administration at its mid term stock taking. ?

Hon Greg Ogigua; I score the achievement very low at 25% based on the facts that most of the so called economic growth of above 6 % said to been recorded by this administration is ambiguous. The sources of the data and other data gathering and processing instruments  in the country is abysmal and the so called growth might be concocted as against other countries like Ghana and also in Europe where you can boast of authentic statistical analysis of the economy and the overall productivity and performance of the government.

ITV Mr. Wilson: His Excellency Prince  Frank Ukonga, how would you score the 14 years democratic dispensation and perhaps the mid term scorecard of this administration.?

H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga:I score the democratic experience of the past 14 years in Nigeria at 55% with due reasons of comparative hindsight of preceding administrations in Nigeria. And here I am not been ambiguous but specific on the achievements of all the 3 tiers of governments, the Presidency, the Legislative as well as accessing other institutions and Ministries. In the past 14 years Nigeria  was able to pay off a huge debt of over 60 billion dollars and we left the debt club, previously Nigeria was using a sizable chunk  of its GNP to service external debts leaving a very portable sum inadequate to finance the economy but  the story is different today.We have above 50 billion dollars in external reserves. Nigeria in the past 14 years also went into  consolidations of many of its weak institutions like the successful banking consolidation, the telecommunication privatization and consolidation that made Nigeria currently one of the fastest growing telecom industry in the world,Privatization of companies, consolidation of the Aviation, educational, and improvement in the power sector which is expected to impact positively on the Real Sector of the economy… I think the macro economic stability has been achieved so far…

Itv Mr Wilson:  Do you agree Hon. Peter Eson with the analysis of H.E. Prince frank Ukonga on the question of Macro economic stability of the country.?

Hon. Peter Eson: I agree with the analysis of Prince Ukonga, but then I must emphasize that our currency has been unfairly devalued as against the dollar and other international currencies at 160 Naira exchanging for one dollar… when I was traveling to study in the United States some years ago  the Naira exchanged at one to one to the dollar, And when I was working before I traveled I earned less than 100 Naira as salary and it was enough to pay rents, bills and sustain my family of 4 with my spouse. But today we earn huge salaries and yet not enough.. which is the question of inflation caused perhaps by unequal exchange rate and other reasons…

ITV Mr Wilson : Does Hon. Greg Ogigua subscribe to this views?

Hon Greg Ogigua: I do not subscribe to both views of Prince Ukonga and Hon Eson. In the case of  currencies devaluation ,it is suppose to favor internal economy and generate exports, I want to recall when I was living in  England we took advantage of the Naira devaluation to export the Guinness stout lager beer as a bottle of Guinness made in Nigeria was selling for as high as 3 pounds in England while it was selling for less than one pound in  Nigeria. So myself and some of my colleagues made brisk business in Exports of such commodities of Nigeria products due to the currency devaluation. Also countries like Japan and China deliberately devalue their currencies to encourage exports…

Itv Mr Wilson: H.E Prince Frank Ukonga., You mentioned  the aspects of weak institutions in Nigeria , how far would you access the strengthening of Nigerian institutions in the Past 14 years

H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga: The past 14 years has witnessed tremendous overall of the Nigeria political economy. As in the democratic institution for example Prof.. Atahiru Jega of INEC is doing his best to consolidate the Nigerian political parties in to manageable formidable strong institutions of say 10 political parties in Nigeria and over 35 political parties had been proscribed addressed for them to form mergers with the ones seeded. Also the Banking consolidation was a great achievement and you can put your money today in the bank in the universal banking system of Nigeria and go to sleep, our Banks hav e branches all over the world , not many countries can boast of this feet yet,. Also the deregulation of the Petroleum industry has also helped to evolved Nigerian multinational Petroleum companies like Oando etal…and the overall privatization exercise of Soludonomics has made the Nigerian economy more competitive of quasi market driven as against the mixed Keynesian model of yore that was fiscal driven..i think Nigeria is on course in the context of macro economic restructuring  and stability.

Hon Gred Ogigua: I do not subscribe to that view of Prince Ukonga. Most of the achievements of the macro economic restructuring of Nigeria was done at the be-heaves of suffering of the masses of Nigeria , the dividents of democracy has not trickled down to the common masses of the Nigeria. Lots of people lost out in the Banking consolidation and what would had been ideal was for the NIDC to be established and allow the Banks to grow to meeting the required standards but rather we saw a forced consolidation and mergers of Banks and institutions of strange bed follows; creating unemployment , hardship on the people. The privatization exercise was also shabily done at the expense of the masses.And that is why some people preffer the benevolent military dictatorship of Latin American countries as role model for Nigeria.

ITV Mr Wilson : whats your take on this Hon Eson?

Hon Eson: well I would say that Nigeria is still developing though it appears that we take two steps forwards and one step backward which is not very good for the polity. The lack of continuity, corruption, lack of maintenance culture in the context of infrastructural development is also a bane  as well as lack of genuinely committed leadership.

H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga: The question of redundancies, hardship and poverty in the polity mentioned by Hon. Gerg Ogigua are the reactionary backlash of the restructuring of the polity and the economy.. normally in any macro economic restructuring there will be winners and losers but the overall effect on the polity if well managed with some poverty alleviation package could have ameliorated the effect on the populace. I think there were several poverty alleviation packages from the administration but perhaps was shabbily implemented and this boils down to the issue of weak institutions in Nigeria which I wrote about in my  celebrated book  21 PROTOCOLS OF POWER. In Nigeria and Sub Saharan Africa we have strong individuals and weak institutions and this is abysmal; we are looking at a situation where the strengthening of the institutions will continue into the future like the Local Government institution that is closer to the people may soon become autonomous and be more committed to service delivery to the people, the Judiciary, the Legislative, the Real Sector are gradually becoming more assertive and with time may become more formidable. Same with the military and Police institutions as formidable subordination to civilian authority and it takes some time for this greatness to take shape. But we seem on course..Also the Power and education  sectors gamane to tranform the Real Sector is a majour top priority of President Jonathan administration which is commendable.

Hon. Greg Ogigua: The analysis of Prince Ukonga is embellished. The power sector has not really unproved spectacularly but a mere rescheduling of power from the rural areas to the cities to look like an unproved generation and distribution achievement. We have been on 5000 mega watt of electricity generation for the past 20 years and more and what we expect is a revolution in that sector. And the same thing goes for many other sectors like the FDI, Economic growth, and what have you. I believe also that lots of tricks and gimmick is being played to give an impression of overall improvement of the economy and the polity.We have acute insecurity problems and the question of National Sovereign Conference and inter tribal relations is still hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles…

Itv Mr. Wilson: So whats your parting words in the context of the scorecard for 14 years of democracy in Nigeria Hon. Eson?

 Hon Eson : I still stick to the 52 % that I have score the democratic experience and hopeful that we shall begin to witness more improvement in quality service delivery to the electorate in the second half of President Jonathan 8 th Republic.

ITV Mr. Wilsom : Whats your parting words Hon. Greg Ogigua?

Hon Greg Ogigua: I remain with the 25% score and I was even rather generous  and would expect more commitment and dedication in the aspect of quality service delivery in the second half of this administration.

ITV Mr Wilson: And H.E. Prince Frank Uonga, what are your parties words?

H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga; I would like to see more consolidation of our weak institutions . I am mostly concerned on the macro aspects of the country and the economy and if we have strong institutions , corruption,unemployment, mismanagement and many ills bedeviling the polity will become portable and manageable nevertheless I score the entire democratic experience of the Nigerian state high @ 55% and would like to see improvement in future.

ITV Mr Wilson : Well we thank all of you for honoring our invitation to ruminate and debate on the problems and prospects of the past 14 years of Nigerian Democratic dispensation, and we hope that the relevant authorities would take a cue from the views exposed here today at ITV studio  Benin City by the stakeholders in the polity and act on them to jockey Nigeria to the Promised land of an economic giant by 2020. We thank all our viewers in Nigeria and abroad for staying tuned. Regards.

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