NIGERIA YOUTH WAKE UP TO YOUR
FEET AND SAY NO TO YOUR DEFEAT BY COMR YAHAYA ZAKI
I carefully x-rayed the political climes in Nigeria since the advent of democracy, and I intentionally omitted the pre-1999 era for obvious reasons. We are all aware that it has always been the same cabals since the independence and the military juntas. Nigeria is endowed with young talented people who are doing great in their various fields, name it, Engineering, Science, Arts, Education, Commerce, Agriculture, Entertainment, Fashion, Banking, Entrepreneurship, E- commerce, Divinity, among others, except in Politics. I said except politics and I mean it. Most of the few young people who are on the corridors of power are certainly not in power because they don’t even know what goes on in there. Many of them are not too different from being house Boys and Girls. The political Godfathers will not allow or listen to them but only to command them and nothing more. The argument has always been that young people are not matured or experienced enough to handle a complex country as Nigeria, you know, this sort of assumption is a calculated attempt to blackmail the young people into accepting that they are incapable because those who gained power at their very young age have never planned to relinquish or quit the stage for others to come in, they rather prefer to fill in their own children and relatives. Nigerian youths are brilliant in all aspect of life, they are resourceful, genuinely skillful and can handle any task given to them, but here, the political gimmicks are thinking otherwise, they see youths as mere objects of voting, instruments and the roles the old people have confined these young people to are to continue to use them as political thugs, errand boys and girls in the names of Personal Assistants, Senior Special Assistant on this and that. Looking at what is obtainable in other country like the US, UK, Canada, and other advanced country and even some African countries, you will be hearing that a boy or a girl of 21 years is a member of parliament, but in Nigeria, the old politicians don’t want the young people to come close to the real political leadership, they have invented and set all manners of barriers to stop them from being competitors. It is only in Nigeria you are eligible to vote when you are 18 years but you cannot aspire to contest for leadership unless you are 30 or 35 years old, even at 30 or 35 there are offices you cannot aspire for, is this not ridiculous?.
In the same Nigeria, we have seen toddlers, children become kings, Ezes, Emirs and took over traditional leadership to lead a lot of people. Why is Politics so different? I am asking, if that is the case, the same constitution which was deviously crafted to stop the young people from aspiring for leadership should also say that, eligibility to vote is when a person turns to 30 or 35 years. To my knowledge, the old politicians who are all people of the same circle irrespective of which political party they belong do not only use age as barrier to prevent our young people from aspiring for leadership, they invented all kinds of tactics such as ethnicity divide, Religious divide, political violence, Money politics, rigging, diabolical means e.t.c which ordinarily will scare and put fears in our young people who have not muster enough courage to toe their line of do or die politics, I am not encouraging any young person to take after them please. The same old politicians the young people wants to kill themselves for either in APC or the PDP in Nigeria are sensible enough and have started aligning, horse trading and forming coalitions to forge a common front ahead of 2019 just like they did in the past elections, can’t the Nigerian youths also adopt this aged long strategy to unite to get powers, how long will the youths continue to be pawns in the hands of these political elites? To the old politicians, most of them especially, it is about power grabbing and not a venture or quest to transform the country, they are aware that the more transformation and education to the mind and soul of Nigerians the less the power for them, but the youths are thinking otherwise, the youths wants to make their marks known, they want to make names that will last for decades through serious development and transformation of the country. To an average young person who wishes to aspire for political office, the first thing your friend and family will ask you is that “hope say you don cook yourself”. This is very sad and ridiculous because that has been the foundation laid by the old crooks to continue to remain and perpetuate themselves in leadership. I sincerely hope that the youths will seize the 2019 elections to make a remarkable difference since the invention of our democracy.



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This is a wake up call to all Nigerian youth, but the youth of today are lost in their quest to make quick money and slay, the reason why we are not moving anywhere. And the truth is that until the day the people that the british relinquish power to gets their hands off it, nothing will change in this nation, we still use the same colonail and military system to rule in our so called democratic govt.