How Okorocha’s Son In-law Uche Nwosu Inspired Youth Consciousness In Nigerian Politics

BY ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES
Source>>>https://www.newsflashngr.com/okorochas-son-law-uche-nwosu-inspired-youth-consciousness-nigerian-politics/
Till few months ago, Mr Sowore, the publisher of the controversial Sahara reporters was comfortable in his exotic apartment in the United States of America from where he churns out news and expository essays on some of Nigeria’s highly placed politicians and power wielders.

Sowore’s internet and social media activities, while he coloured it before the public to look like they were inspired by solely humanitarian motivations, were big money spinner to him, as well a big platform that launched him into relevance among Nigerian political and business elites.

No doubt, Sowore, a former President of the Students Union Government in the Lagos State University and a frontline activist under the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has long been politically exposed. However, it is not certain, if the radical Lagos boy and billionaire whistleblower ever saw a possibility for him to run for any serious elective office in the nearest future- at least, not in 2019.

Many young men and women of Sowore’s generation, especially, those among them who hitherto were more comfortable with been addressed as activists, have begun to show credible interest in taking their political fates into their hands.

It is a gratifying reality that younger generation of Nigerians are beginning to stake a formidable claim to the Nigerian project. Instead of hiding behind computers and smart phones to complain, these youths have taken to the podium of politics to argue their case at the highest level, instead of leaving it in the hands of our obviously tiring grandparents.

Before this new youth Awakening spearheaded by Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, Omoyele Sowore and a few others, there have been very young men of less than 45 years of age who have made reasonable impact in our political space since the present Fourth Republic.

Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, Donald Duke, Dimeji Bankole, Bukola Saraki and most recently, Yahaya Bello were all able to rise to great political heights before they were 45, but they are very different from this present crop of youthful revolutionaries staking their claim on the Nigerian power pie, presently.

While these other men were able to beat their way to the top with their heavy purses, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu and the generation of youths he has inspired to throw their hats into the Nigerian political race are young men who have a verifiable history of leadership tutelage long before declaring their intentions to vie for any political office.

They are not moneybags who feel they can buy their way to power, but prepared and very competent leaders who have shown a long suppressed hunger to play prominent roles in the realization of a new Nigeria.

Ugwumba Uche Nwosu takes the credit for inspiring our generation, not just in Imo State, but across Nigeria to take our political fates into our hands. Nwosu, who became a governorship candidate of a major political Party before he clocked 40 years of age is that young man who has succeeded in making Nigerian youths regain confidence in themselves.

It is not out of place that a number of young men who have began to show credible interest in taking up powerful political offices in the country may be doing so out of envy for the audacious political impact recorded by the Eziama-Obaire born seasoned technocrat, but this envy is the positive one.

Ugwumba Uche Nwosu has succeeded in not only inspiring the youths to challenge for their place in the Nigerian political space, but also in convincing a number of our elders to support this charge.

From former military President Ibrahim Babangida to former civilian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, the call for Nigerian youths to take over governance at all levels is resonating loudly and persistently.

Omoyele Sowore and other younger presidential aspirants in the 2019 election may not stand any chance of winning the election, but they would have made a powerful statement with their declaration and if they eventually run the whole hog, then our generation would have succeeded in making a strong statement of intent regarding our political relevance that can only but keep burning up.

Nigerian youths of all backgrounds and orientations have been motivated to begin to think of themselves as the driver’s of the Nigerian rebirth, instead of complacent passengers in a vehicle that is almost getting grounded by the rough driving of our ageing present crop of leaders. Remember, this idea was planted in Imo State by Ugwumba Uche Nwosu and is germinating across Nigeria, to the glory of God.
BY ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES
Source>>>https://www.newsflashngr.com/okorochas-son-law-uche-nwosu-inspired-youth-consciousness-nigerian-politics/