Written By: Jacobs Dunga
The presidential aspirant of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of the Nigerian youths.
His Excellency, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in on Tuesday as the elected president of Senegal amidst a lot of excitement and hope for the African youths.
President Faye becomes the youngest president in the African continent thanks to his electoral victory in the recently conducted elections in the West African country.
Sowore, 53, a multiple professional who retains the vision to change the Nigerian political system has called on youths to become more proactive and ambitious.
The University of Lagos alumnus condemned the petty attitude of the Nigerian youths as concerned with politics while enjoining them to get more involved in changing the trajectory.
“Our young people are concerned with doing what I call tag along. They are more interested in becoming special assistants to governors or senators,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“I have not seen that clear aspiration on the part of our young people to become leaders.”
Should we be willing to witness such an event in Nigeria as happened in Senegal, Sowore stated that the youths of Nigeria have got to become more visionary and aspiring in the politics of the state.
“You cannot be young, mission-driven, and a visionary and go and hide your bushel under some of these old people who have no idea of how to even operate a phone,” He said.
“Youthfulness is also important in the sense that you need leaders that are alert and capable and responsive and do not have to spend half of the time in the hospital,” the AAC flagbearer said.
Nigeria is one of the leading nations in Africa but the political system in the over 200 million populated states is a far cry from the expectations of the electorate.
Source: www.thenewindependentonline.com
