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A WAKE UP CALL FOR NIGERIAN YOUTHS

I write this piece with tears uncontrollably dropping down my cheeks.

I do not know how to get myself together. I have taken time to study the political situation of our dear nation and the future of the nobodies of which I am number one. I cannot help but come to the inevitable conclusion that Nigeria is drifting and that the nobodies must be born poor, raised in scarcity and called to the great beyond in abject penury. There will be no period of joy for him or her irrespective of the language he speaks, his religion or where he comes from. The only prerequisite is that he or she is not born into the ruling oligarchy. We must open our eyes before we all get drown. What has division and disunity done to our senses?

The youths are well educated but thinly knowledgeable, we hardly see beyond the lenses of tribalism, religious bigotry and ethnic jingoism.

We flaunt bogus certificates without really allowing our knowledge to affect our thinking and logic.

What are we to be remembered for when posterity refer to this phase of their history when we existed? Azikiwe, Awo, Ahmed Bello, Joseph Tarka are all in the good side of our history today because they exploited the situation and seized the opportunity created by the evils of colonialism. What about Nelson Mandela and the great war against apartheid?

Has the situation in Nigeria not created a vacuum in our history for Nobel men to fill? It is the only opportunity for the nameless us to get solid names.

As I speak now, this politicians who have held us to ransom for decades have created diversionary stories for us to keep busy with on borrowed data online whilst they continue scavenging on our national Treasury as they always do. Do not be deceived by all these evil antics. Do not believe there is any rift between Fayose and Buhari or any difference between PDP and APC elders. They are all common travellers, with a common agenda; to hold us to ransom and remote-control the future of ordinary Nigerians. They always make sure we do not pass average.

They create divergent stories anytime election is by the way. The issue of IPOB, AREWA youths will start popping up? This are all political gimmicks to keep us away from reasoning logically or questioning the rationale behind their non performance, lootocracy and perpetual sojourn in the corridors of power.

We appreciate the fact that many Nigerians are not happy with the way things are in this country. Nothing of this cannot be addressed under a sincere government. Nigeria has enough resources to go round and keep everybody satisfied, fit and healthy only if judiciously put to use. All we need is sincere persons with pragmatic approaches to the escalating situation of our dear nation. A conducive atmosphere where every Nigerian can freely hatch and harness his or her potentials if sincerely provided, will totally assuage all our grievances.

Our brains have gotten saturated with hifalutin promises which is later abandoned when they get to power only to start the bidding of a few minority.

Posterity will never forgive the youths if we continue in this way whilst our nation is made the laughing stock of the world. A country in which youths like us nurtured to become the most populous black nation feared in military and economy. A country that singlehandedly quelled the coupe in Saotome and Principe. A country once dreaded by the most fierce nations in the world. Arise o compatriots! It is worth shedding our bloods to regain that lost Glory.

Look at Kenya, when young people stood and said enough is enough, they started changing the norm. Their history immediately took a new and better dimension. In Kenya today, a young graduate of urban and regional planning who is just 23years and normally should be carrying her files scouting for work in the deepest streets of Kenya was elected into the house of reps. The most captivating part of her story is that she was very poor that she couldn't afford a party ticket. She had to run as an independent candidate yet kenyan youths stood by her and they got it right. What about the 24year old governor who also got elected?

Their elections got the government up and the judiciary immediately braced up to the realities on ground. First in the history of Africa, the court is annulling the election that produced a sitting president. The most stunning aspect of it is that an election which held by 12th of August 2017 got the decision of the Court before the ending of August. It could have been an endless legal tussle in Nigeria.

Can we not achieve this feet? Can't the strength and vigour we wield on social media be brought to the physical sphere? Or are we weaklings? Of course no!

Am sure we can do it!

Look at Ghana today and how they are successfully luring all the candidates seeking admission into Nigerian universities away because there is no heck of strike and other evil barriers. Nigerian government have abandoned the education sector to deteriorate to the lowest ebbs. Their children school in the best schools in UK, U.S, Canada etc with billions of naira siphoned from our national Treasury, they therefore do not care about our education sector nor do they give a hoot if ASUU is on strike for endless decades.

Whilst expired drugs are provided for ordinary Nigerians in the substandard hospitals in Nigeria, they journey to the last breadth of the world in search of standard medications their own responsible government has provided them.

We must refuse to be divided. Let us get them out before we can consider giving each other barrage of quit notices. Let us decapitulate them before threatening fire and brimstone against each other.

Our political parties are two in Nigeria. That of this oligarchists and the one of ordinary Nigerians irrespective of place, tribe or religion. How many youths have benefited from a president who is from their state or region? It all boils down to their relatives including the ones unborn. The ordinary Nigerians fortunately are the majority. How many of us have our voters cards?

Don't you want to be senator at 20s and 30s? This particular question kept me all the night.

Two young Hausa guys approached me somewhere around area 10 in Abuja. They were looking haggard and beggarly, I wanted to dismiss them until the argument they so vehemently advanced and the free flow of logic and sound reasoning got me. I was wearing a Kwankwasiyya tag, they argued with me for about 50minutes and made a strong case for a certain presidential candidate whom they claim is 36years. I was not concerned about the candidate but I was marvelled at the level of rich orientation they have. I couldn't sleep all through that night. I know within me that Nigerian youths are gallant soldiers wounded and frustrated by the devilish antics of this few oligarchists who have seized power from the people whom it originally belonged to for their selfish emoluments. We must fight like wounded Lions and lionesses .

The plight of the Nigerian youths is the most tragic in the world. After many, long gruellinging years of sucking Garri in school and passing through the unbearable stress and prison-like condition of the campus, face a more horrific life outside with nobody to turn to whilst they(oligarchists) have secured permanent positions for their 7th generations. How long shall this go unabated?

Look at my state of Benue, it is the most gifted state in terms of agriculture, man power and other numerous resources. It used to be the pride of Aper Aku, Joseph Tarka, Joseph Akahan. Today the state is overtaken by flood, ravaged by all evils and the plights of the citizens made worse by the evil and terrifying policies of the infamous state Governor. I had written earlier that there was an urgent need to declare the whole of Benue an IDP camp for relieve materials and funds to be donated to us by well meaning and sincere Nigerians but I was made mockery of, cajoled and called names. Today Benue has become an official IDP camp with every politician dancing surugede ahead of 2019 and trying to show off his or her illgotten wealth and large hearts when they themselves created this very problems.

When shall we learn? Why do we accept peanuts from the piles of naira notes they have stollen from us and allow them to come back again?

Why not collect the money (after all, it's ours) and still chase them out?

Why don't we struggle to get there and take this very decisions for our young selves and our kids.

It might not be about us. The unborn ordinary Nigerians need not suffer again. Let us create a veritable future for them.

Patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice will embark on a nationwide sensitization campaign. Support us, join us so we can heal our nation and set our dear country on the path of growth and development once again. Let us return Nigeria to its original owners (the people). 08160536309.

What will history remember us for? Shall we live and die without a fight? Of what use is life in such a hell?

God Bless Nigeria!

#Revolution2019
#NotTooYoungToRun

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political commentator and civil right activist
National publicity secretary of patriotic Nigerian youths against corruption and social injustice

well articulated... Kwankwaso is a movement that no man born of woman can stop in Nigeria...best article ever

Bobo419:
Two quick points to make:

1) Is that a staged conjugal ceremony or a real one? If it's real, then something is not right ooooooo. Cause that's a clear sign of a poorly feed Sugar-mommy that has no sugar in her.

2) Pastor, you don try. You said there won't be war in the land for 7 years if the people choose to live in peace and harmony. Baba, this your prophecy is wonderful. You're a truly sent from God. The only concern i have is just that even a mad man can prophesy what you just said and it will surely come to pass.

Okay, make i add my own prophecy.......There won't be war in TIV land between the tiv and fulanis for the next 14 years if the people live in peace and harmony with each other.

If you believe in my prophecy, kindly like this Post..... If the Like plenty, aswear, I go go open my on church kwa

This must be a staged marriage. That guy cannot come and marry the mother na

GavelSlam:
These reasons did not exist in 2015?

It did existed but history apathy got us blind from noticing them. The writer is here to put is on the right path and avert that mistake come next election