The Founding Executive Director Centre LSD Leadership School, Dr. Otive Igbozor, has called on Nigerians to encourage their wards to study courses that would benefit the country at large.
According to him, the objective behind the initiative is to portray an ideology that can lead to improvement in the life of citizens, especially the poor.
“Ideas rule the society. Part of the problems we have is having resources but lacking ideas or initiatives to build on them.”
Dr. Igbozor stated this during the ‘Annual Otivism Lecture’ to mark his 61st birthday celebration with the theme: ‘Otivism and Ideology; Addressing Contemporary Nigeria Challenges’, on Thursday in Abuja.
He said, “We must look for ideas to rule Nigeria by looking for people with the ideas, adopt and use the ideas. And for those who want to destroy the country we must use ideas to destroy them.
“Our focus isn’t the government but people. If the people buy the ideas, then we will have the kind of convert we want for Nigeria. We are well over 200 million but only 8 million voted the president into power because if the people imbibe and know the accurate ideas to use, they will vote and the ideas will flourish.”
He further said that Nigeria lacks good ideas that is why the country despite its enormous resources has not developed as expected.
“The ideas being discussed today are useful for the development of Nigeria, i.e. provision of health services, education, dealing with climate change conservation and environmental protection, dealing with agriculture, youth empowerment, gender equality and social inclusion.”
In his keynote lecture, lecturer with Base University Dr. Stephen Izu said, Otivism is an idea that teaches on different aspects of society.
He said, “The bottom line is that he tries to advocate the human side of power for the good of humanity. It is an ideology not just abstract but concrete, i.e. it can be used as a tool for positive change in the society.”
He added that Otivism has shown that he is a man that has gone ahead of his time as proven in ideology which will bring about inter-generational equity and security by ensuring that it is built on justice, laws, and sustainable development.
“A concentration of not just the present but the future,” he added.
The keynote speaker promised to add ‘Otivism’, to the school syllabus.
Earlier, the wife of the celebrant Mrs. Ejiro Otive Igbozor, described him as a motivator and supportive growth. Adding that, you can’t be around him and not grow because he is not threatened by his wife’s ambition or growth.
“And that’s why we’ve grown together,” she added.
Expressing himself, the Executive Director Centre LSD Mr. Monday Osasah, said the celebrant is a man on a mission, a true mentor, leader and father to all.
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