Nigeria, Jan. 17 -- POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS AT THE HEART OF THE 2023 ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA.

PROTOCOLS AND SALUTATIONS

In agreement to the primacy of gratitude among human virtues, please allow me to begin today with words of gratitude. I am most grateful to Chatham House, Dr. Alex Vines and his team for the global impact of their mission and commitment to engagement with Nation building in Nigeria. In providing this global platform to interrogate the vision of those seeking to lead Nigeria, at this time when clear existential threats as I will discuss shortly are pervasive across our dear country, this Chatham House event challenges us to new thinking.

We have alarming insecurity that has led to loss of many lives and propertie...