Ever since I was young have always heard that the youths are the future of this great country, Nigeria. I can’t dispute that because the youths are estimated to constitute 70% of Nigeria’s population, So I can unequivocally say that if Nigeria is failing, the youths are to take the blame and they are also tantamount to the edifice of Nigeria. We have been facing obnoxious leadership problems in the country for a while and solutions don’t seems to be forth coming and what the youths keeps doing is to blame the leaders and not look for solutions.

I see 2015 as tomorrow because it is fast approaching like a tsunami and it is an opportunity to determine the future of this country for bad or good. But the question I want to ask the youths is that- what are we doing to enhance a credible election in 2015? Are we still going to trade our future for money or temporary material things?

The reason why am writing this piece is just to bring to our notice the alarming rate at which the youths do not participate in the elections. We don’t engage in partisan politics and also majority of the youths don’t even vote. Am privileged to be doing my intern at an INEC office in my state and I noticed that most people participating in the PVC registration and collection are not youths, it is disheartening to see aged men and women, even octogenarians queue-up to get their voter’s card whereas the vibrant youths are nowhere to be found. Thank God it is jet age, all what the youth does is to attack, altercate, and castigate each other on social networking websites and blogs,political thuggery has now gone digital. Am also guilty of that but what we face to realize is that all the political analysis, philosophies, debates, arguments on the internet ends there. The most significant benefit of the social media during elections is for campaign and we should know that our thoughts there don’t influence the outcome of the elections.

Also when you get to political party’s youth meetings, you begin to wonder whether those present are truly youths. I don’t blame them though, I blame the youths that finds it hard to participate. Maybe we are afraid to associate with corrupt politicians and being too religious or just too busy with our daily activities but believe you me; we can’t achieve the change we need with such nonchalant attitude.

It is high time we stopped being frivolous and take our radicalism, activism, analysis, opinions on the social media to the polling units. If only we know the level at which the youths can influence the elections then we will begin to participate in politics and get the change we need, our dream of being the foundation of this country only be a surreal.

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My brother the worst thing is that the youth are the ones clammoring for a 75 years old general who toppled and truncate a legitimate govt that was the voice of the people to rule again and again. Some droids are here in nairaland attacking anybody that is against this old men i.e egift with over 39 topics and 3000 post within the last five days.
Cramjones with over 80 topics and 4000 thousand post within the last 1 week.
As for Barcanista et al with over 200 topics and over 40,000 post i have nothing to say.