“Every generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.”

-Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

The Yoruba Youth Alliance (YYA), which comprises different groups formed by professionals, former students’ union leaders, youth/labour rights activists, entrepreneurs, wishes to state her position with regard to the 2015 Presidential Elections.

Having examined the projects the Government of Goodluck Jonathan has undertaken in the southwest, we are tempted to conclude that President Jonathan has nothing but contempt for our region. The latter-day construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is a gimmick to score a political point and appease the people of the southwest to curry their support for 2015 elections. It is ridiculous that President Jonathan would need to wait until the eleventh hour before he could order for palliatives on the Lagos-Ibadan Road. It is more ridiculous to learn that the Government of Lagos State which has been magnanimous enough to cover the ‘unclothedness’ of the federal government pertaining to the deplorable conditions of its roads is being owed about 50billion Naira. One can imagine how hellish life would have been for the people of Lagos if the Government of Lagos State has not intervened. From Lagos to Ogun;from Ogun to Oyo;from Oyo to Osun,Ekiti and Ondo,the story is the same:it is litany of deplorable federal projects.

In another vein, President Jonathan has failed to create jobs and protect lives and property of the citizens of this country. It is disheartening that the government through a third party falsely obtained money from unemployed graduates in the name of employing them in the Nigerian Immigration Service. In spite of the uproar the recruitment exercise generated, Mr. President does not seem perturbed punishing all the officials that were culpable in the racket and untimely death of promising Nigerian citizens. Mr. Abba Moro, the Minister of Interior who supervised the sham recruitment, still holds his cabinet position.

Similarly, the Sure-P/ FERMA Project which Mr. President has been touting as his major achievement in the southwest region is also a massive deceit. It is sad to note that after about one year when each applicant was asked to cough-out about 30,000 Naira to obtain uniform and application form, no employment letter has been issued to anyone: our youths only loiter around 7Up area (the Sure-P office in Lagos) every day. It is pathetic that the government of Nigeria under the headship of Mr. Jonathan would subject our youths to degrading conditions under the pretense that they are offering them employments.

To cap it, under the current government, more than 200 secondary school students from Chibok have been kidnapped and the military is confused and clueless on the strategy to adopt to retrieve the girls from Boko Haram insurgents who have declared part of the country as their Caliphate.



Considering the abysmal performance of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, we in the Yoruba Youth Alliance have resolved that supporting his re-election will further plunge the country into abyss. It therefore defers logic to hear that factions of the Afenifere and the Yoruba Council of Elders could lend their support to the President’s re-election bid. We regard the endorsement as self-serving and repugnant. However, having identified the personae behind the endorsement, we are unruffled; because the ‘endorsers’ are spent politicians with little or no electoral value. An average Yoruba is aware that they are political jobbers. We can beat our chest that none of these characters can deliver his polling unit to the President because an average Yoruba man/woman is aware that they are

Generals with no battalions. Is it a coincidence that most (if not all) of the characters behind the shameful endorsement are conferees of the last jamboree (National Conference) where they were paid huge amount of millions from the federal treasury to carry out the functions of the National Assembly? It is a rarity for a freeborn Yoruba to campaign openly for President Jonathan’s re-election, except those who have benefitted substantially from his largesse, those with shady pasts and shaky means of livelihood, who have no business venturing into politics in healthy climes.

Conversely, we have perused the manifestoes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and can confirm that the party has the capacity to restore sanity, prosperity, progress to the country. To this end, we have adopted the candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari/Professor Yemi Osinbanjo of the APC. We consider this ticket as the best combination to salvage this country.

Since the emergence of General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo (a son of the ‘soil’ and husband to Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s grand-daughter), we in the Yoruba Youth Alliance have been in the field campaigning vigorously for Buhari/Osinbajo Presidency and the feedback we are getting is very encouraging. We have noticed that many Yoruba people have embraced the Buhari/Osinbajo candidacy as a pan-Nigerian project. We are certain that more than 85percent of the votes in the South-West will be for Buhari/Osinbajo.

But it is shameful that the self-acclaimed Apostles and Scions of Chief Awolowo could not embrace a presidential ticket that has a worthy Yoruba son like Osinbajo on it, a Chief Awolowo’s Son-in-Law for that matter! Where then is their Awoism?

As youth, we believe we will be spending most of our precious lives in the future while these ‘elders’ shall have permanently quit the stage. Therefore, that future and now are very dear to us because any decision taken on our behalf today will definitely affect us later either directly or by implication; either adversely or positively. This publication is not just a rejoinder to their shameful exercise but a generational resentment to the so-called Yoruba elders who are willing to sell our collective future for a pot of porridge. The Yoruba Youth Alliance uses this medium to appeal to the entire South-West Youth to disregard that selfish call by the ‘elders’ as such a call only represents their interest and those of their immediate families.



Elder Adebayo Adedeji-08068151825

Comrade Damilare Lawal (a.k.a. NADECO)-08166908888

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