Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has revealed that marketing the country to the outside world has not been easy after the 2023 general elections.
Attah spoke at the weekend at the 2024 Investiture ceremony of the Institute of Certified Sales Professionals held at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.
The former governor whose lecture was entitled: “The imperatives of selling Nigeria to the outside world in the post-2023 national elections era” stressed the need to sell Nigeria to Nigerians first through patriotic zeal, determination to reconcile aggrieved parties, and developing a national core value shared by all, according to The Nation.
Attah hailed President Bola Tinubu on the intention to launch a National Values Charter which according to him would benefit all citizens.
He said: “Selling Nigeria in the aftermath of the 2023 elections is not by any means an easy job. As has been shown, our actions and utterances that led up to the elections and have since continued after the elections, have left us with two major strikes. The first is that we have a gravely damaged product and the second is that our number one salesman, the president has been badly disabled. But we must not give up.”