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Hon. Mbonu speaks at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and explores a run for Nigerian Presidency

February 20, 2018 by Admin Leave a Comment

Mbonu speaking at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

“We have seen the light, and we are not going back to darkness!” – Hon Sam Okey Mbonu

In a star-studded Event, featuring Hollywood Stars, business executives, and professionals, including notable Los Angeleno’s of Nigerian descent, in California, Hon. Sam Okey Mbonu, was honored as one of the most accomplished Nigerians in the United States, at a special event in his honor, at the “Airforce One Boardroom at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California”.

Mbonu is the “first” African leader to be honored at a reception at the famous “Airforce One Boardroom at the Ronal Reagan Presidential Library”. Mbonu’s recognition was preceded by a reception for the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, on the same day and in the same venue, thus underscoring a shift in global leadership to a newer generation.

Mbonu in his remarks decried the depth at which Nigeria had descended, due to a leadership vacuum at the center. Mbonu stated that in a globalized world, any failures in leadership in a large country like Nigeria, would be apparently glaring at the world stage. Mbonu invoked the spirit of Ronald Reagan, America’s greatest president of the 20 Century who’s immortal words were that, “The future does not belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the Brave”.

Mbonu stated that the brave in any given society were those who have the courage to confront systems that held people down, and to restore the dignity of humanity when societies fall short. Mbonu also called for the new generation of Nigerians to hearken unto the words of former US President Barack Obama who said, that the new generations were “the ones we’ve been waiting for”!

Mbonu recounted his rise from a humble childhood, having been reared by parents who were educators in Nigeria, and his life of public service from a young age, to his accomplishments in the United States, as a Washington DC Policy Advisor, Consultant, and Media Analyst, who provides strategic advisory to US institutions, including the US Conress, Organization of American States, various US institutions, and the media; on Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa matters.

Mbonu arrival at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library California

Mbonu is also co-founder of the Washington-based Nigeria and Africa focused Think-Tank, the “Nigerian-American Leadership Council (NAL Council)”; he had also previously served as a “Commissioner for Housing & Community Development in Maryland, United States”. Mbonu was in 2015 designated a “powerful voice on US-Nigeria matters” by the US media giant MSNBC. In his remarks, Mbonu regretted that in recent times, the world had watched as Nigeria slowly and hopelessly descended into, strife, chaos, and gory images of murderous religious-fanaticism, on international television.

Mbonu said that based on the situation in Nigeria, he had formed a “presidential exploratory committee”, to offer solutions to Nigeria’s current problems of chronic under-development and strife. Mbonu stated that his public service in Nigeria would focus on two man areas, “Electric Energy and the provision of sufficient Water Resources across the country.” Mbonu stated that he would center his public service in Nigeria on what he called “the Power & Water Agenda”; he believes that once electric power is created, the Nigerian economy would quadruple and strife would be reduced to insignificance.

In his conclusion, Mbonu stated: “Some of us have been tried and tested in the most rigorous environment in the world, the United States. We have integrity, we are clean, we are fresh, and we do not have corruption charges on our neck, anywhere in the world”.

Mbonu further admonished Nigerians, especially the youth, that: “We must all strive to make a difference, and in the immortal words of America’s greatest civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward,” because, the river only flows in one direction: “FORWARD”!

Mbonu added, “We are the one’s Nigeria has been waiting for, we are the 21st Century, we are the digital age, we are the incorruptible, we are global citizens, we have seen the world, we have seen the light, and we are not going back to darkness!”

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