I would like to talk about an interesting figure in the forthcoming elections; Omoyele Sowore. He has been campaigning with the premise that youths are the leaders of tomorrow, using a sell-able message as leverage for his elections next year. Since his campaign, we have not heard him say anything pertaining to how he intends to create jobs, boost the economy, solve insecurity issues or provide constant power supply. His campaign is just about gathering the youths together and taking power from the old; as if that is the biggest problem we have in Nigeria.

Nigeria had always produced exceptional youths as leaders in many ramification, we have had President Jonathan a much younger president considering Buhari’s age. But having youths in position is far from the solution to Nigeria’s problems. We need people to tell us how they intend to turn around the country’s fortune for good and not people that will us that they are going to scrap the national assembly. Scrapping the National assembly will only compound the myriads of problems we already have in our country and not solve any. If the NASS is scrapped, how will the executive be checkmated? It sure means that the president and ministers would have super powers to do as they so desire.

I like Omoyele sowore bold steps towards becoming the next president; I appreciate his effort as a youth, but the truth is that he cannot be trusted. Sowore has always been a con man, an individual that in several occasions have been accused of blackmail is sure not a fit for Nigeria president. His news outlet ‘sahara reporters’ is used as a witch hunting tool to target government officials he does not fancy or people who refuse to pay him his desired ransom. We do not need a bigot or a blackmailer ridding on the back of our youths to achieve his personal ambition. If sowore want to be president let him leave this youth narrative, come out as a candidate and contest elections with others. The Nigeria youths do not have consensus candidate yet, and even if we do it definitely will not be Omoyele Sowore C.E.O of a blackmailing news site.


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