PROFERRING SOLUTIONS TO NIGERIA’S PROBLEMS PART TWO

MAKING OUR YOUTHS LEADERS

Nigeria is a great nation with good people, no doubts but our greatness is only on papers even how this greatness can be achieved is only on papers too as our leaders and policy makers focus only on the greatness of their pockets at the detriment of our dear nation.
We all grew up been told that the youths are the leaders of tomorrow but in practice it turns out to be a lie. The same people who tells the youth they are the future leader turns around and hold on to power, simply telling us we cannot be leaders until they die and consequently they all turnout to be the proverbial cat with nine lives.
Building a country of our dream is of paramount importance and we cannot neglect the youths with all their energy in the process of nation building as that will be undermining their strength and usefulness to the society in general. The youths have a huge role to play if and when sustained progress becomes a matter of interest to our leaders. Let’s not forget in a hurry that the man who moved the motion for independence, Chief Anthony Enahoro did that at the age of 30. If he was not too young to be involved in the quest for democracy then we cannot be too young to lead this nation. This brings to mind the words of Louis Van Gaal; if he is good enough then he is old enough. It is also a common parlance among us that Methusela’s age has nothing to do with Solomon’s wisdom.
But the question often asked is our youths ready to leady? The simple answer is no.
A youth that spend hours arguing who is a better footballer between Ronaldo and Messi cannot lead. A youth whose votes can still be bought is not ready to lead, a youth who still spend hours in bet and gaming shops is not ready to lead, a youth who get paid to snatch ballot boxes during elections as was witnessed during the last election cannot be said to be ready to take up the mantle of leadership, a youth that can still defend our old politicians with anything even if it means his blood is not yet ready to lead.
The painful thing is over 80% of our youths fall in these categories. Somebody said never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups and another man said it takes stupid people to elect a stupid president. If we say our leaders are stupid or foolish then we should do introspection and see what we are. The kind of leaders we elect shows our personalities.
We can’t keep complaining if they refuse to leave power to us then we must take it by force, not through violence but through the ballot, as the last data of voters released by INEC showed that the youths are over 50% of registered voters. It is time for our youths to step into the ring and take the reins of power. Our future is in our hands we can’t afford to further leave it in the hands of our present leaders. It is time for our youths to vote youths into power.
To create a better government were the masses are the reference point for everything the government does we need people who are ready to risk anything to create their own destiny and there are no alternative to the youth if we must achieve the Nigeria of our dream.
We have given our leaders the time to decide our destiny as a nation and as a people and with all the resources in their hands they have failed us overtime and now is the time to take our destiny in our own hands because only we can stand for ourselves and only we can chose our destiny.
It is time for our youths to rise, join hands together and build Nigeria. And to build we must remember that we must submit ourselves to be building blocks and to understand that the change you seek begins with you.
We must rise and take our destinies in our hands. It’s not about being a Muslim or a Christian or a traditionalist. We need leaders that will be more Nigerian than religious, leaders that are not regionists.
Whether we right the wrongs of the past and build a great nation is a choice for us to make but if we fail to end the derail, if we fail to end the rot of our institutions. If we fail to end marginalization and regionalism, if we fail to build the Nigeria of our dream posterity will judges us and the children yet unborn will curse us for passing to them a dead country and blame us each passing day for their woes. Not because we failed to make a difference but because we failed to try and instead of trying we joined hands with people who don’t have the interest of the country to destroy our country’
It is time to prove we are not lazy, it’s time to prove we can lead and now let the party begin.
‘Over to you youths’.

Written by Victor Utomi
He is a writer, an entrepreneur, a business consultant and a speaker
For comments, you can reach him via victom.dmay@gmail.com or 08133933149

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Good to know we still have some forward thinking youths in this country!

Instead of the relentless murmuring and grumblings pervasive on this space, we need more critical thinking leaders among our youths who would pave the way forward for this country and take their own destiny with their hands.

I made a similar post here:


https://nairaland.com/5737855/what-vision-nigeria

samuelivingston:
Good to know we still have some forward thinking youths in this country!

Instead of the relentless murmuring and grumblings pervasive on this space, we need more critical thinking leaders among our youths who would pave the way forward for this country and take their own destiny with their hands.

I made a similar post here:


https://nairaland.com/5737855/what-vision-nigeria

Thank you Mr Samuel a youth like you is what is lacking in this country. if it was a thread about Davido and Wizkid or Tacha and Mercy you will experience mass reading but a thread like this they avoid like plague. no wonder progress avoid us as a nation because people who should take the fore front of development are content with taking the back sit.
we keep hoping God will one day come down from heaven to help us or send a Messiah but we are our own Messiah. God has given us the capacity and the resources to build our nation and whether we build or not is totally left to us as a people and as a nation

you will never find such articles on front page, shows that our MODS are youths.
a further prove that our youths are not prepared nor ready to lead

Viktom:
you will never find such articles on front page, shows that our MODS are youths.
a further prove that our youths are not prepared nor ready to lead

So unfortunate.

We will keep on educating them.

Ok

Good. We can do something.

Cc: Viktom edit your post and space it well.....the paragraphing is not cool, doesn't encourage people to read.