*A WAKE UP CALL TO THE NIGERIAN YOUTH FOR THE AGITATED CHANGE OF THE POLITICAL VIBES & MUSIC.*

BY:
UWODE E.JOSEPHINE
jojoamaniarea@gmail.com
23/01/21019

The change Nigerians seek is not embedded in rocket science but a political reorientation. Nigerian youths are at their worse again, proving themselves as people who lack the political foresight to bail the nation from the political Summersault enmeshed In from decades past and in present times.

Rather than being change agents with a sense of responsibility and accountability, they have affirmatively lost their moral compass and sense of political judgement to give direction on the right route to drive the nation on the path of nation building.

At the expiration of every political season, they are too quick to play sanctimonious and exonerate themselves as catalyst of economic and political dilapidation .

Intellectual dwarfism describes better in excellent terms the attitude of the Nigerian youth in deciding whom to be entrusted with governance responsibilities. Following aggression and determination to get emancipated from the shackles of old recycled politicians and letter writing experts fondly called post masters, the "Not too Young to Run Bill" was birthed. The question begging for answers is how political willing and prepared are the Nigerian youths to take the bull by the horn and in essence make the bill reap pragmatic outcomes?.

Footages from the PDP and APC campaigns across the country unearth the statistical dominance of the youths, which resonates their misdemeanor and mischievousness of queueing behind and escorting politicians with wrinkled minds to the Ware House of Power while they remain at the gate begging for access. This puts them in the position of political Levite's rather than the tithers. They are still thrilled and fantasising over rhetoric promises of political appointments as a roadmap to taking leadership duties at the apex of affairs (Presidency). What a deceit!!!.

The application of the faulty political formular by Nigerian youths who ought to be the active players in the political scheme of things over time, have held the nation spell bound. Buttressing this point, drilling into history to explore some of the wrongs that need to be right becomes indispensable. The likes of Ken Sarowiwa, Nnamdi Azikiwe and their iconic achievements explains the vibrancy and intellectual capacity that young sharps possess to deliver efficiently and effectively. This translates the necessity and the fact that the country is overdue to produce another breed of vibrant and resourceful leaders.

Any one with a sense of rationality would have envisaged a calculated move by the young presidential aspirants Kingsley Moghale, Fela Durotoye and Omoyele Sowore to have merged to procreate a formidable third force. Who says its not possible?. The impossibility can only stem out of the youths thinking and acting impossible.

The disjointed state of the mission statement of the three affore stated young aspirants under perceived mushroom political parties , deters millions of Nigerian youths from having the confidence to risk their vote for perceived inconsequential candidates as further commonised by the attitude of the PDP and APC presidential hopefuls who see themselves as no people of equal stake with the three other aspirants, thus defining the presidential debate to be a contest of Buhari Versus Atiku rather than a presidential debate that captured other aspirants. That enough is insulting and condescending on the part of the Nigerian youths.

Amidst all odds, as a matter of alacrity, I write to appeal to the three presidential aspirants to form a consensus arrangement and throw their weight behind the most resourceful among them.

On the other hand, Nigerian youths who constitute the lager percentage of the voting population should not be threatened by the noisy campaign activities of the party weight and money bag politicians.

In reasoning tall, its better to waste a vote on resourceful hopefuls with the confidence of contributing quota to nation building than casting vote for old hacks whose political ideologies are obsolete and don't align with the perquisite of the 21st century politics. Voting anachronistic set of politicians is a continuous endorsement of the longevity of the suffering and smiling system of governance.

With the application of the presidential candidate merger formulae and the resolve of Nigerian youths to vote their counterparts, the parading of noisy and incompetent aspirants who parade themselves as masquerades that must be feared by all in the polity can be sent solo and exiled in order for Nigerians to sing a new song at the dawn of a new political era.

Political admonition in this sense requires the aforementioned modalities ; as a shortfall of this standard will amount to a leveraging of the nation on a money wakes up and conscience goes to sleep politics that continues to put the nation on a reverse gear and takes us back to our ugly root rather than reaching aspired collective destinations.

A post mortem into the chain of governance in Nigeria, reveals the unusual can be made usual with a sense of determination. If the PDP could be negated after 16years consecutive rule and the APC birthed , the birthing of a third force successor is attainable through the unflinching appetite to cause a change and decisive voting choice that is change driven rather than sentiments that entails sacrificing meritocracy on the altar of mediocrity.

Nigerian youths, it is time to unsubscribe to the hydra cabal mega party philosophy and hostage possession that can go battle cost if Nigerians are serious in playing politics with a sincerity of purpose and aggressive pursuit of course towards effecting positive change.

No rocket science is required in getting Nigeria work again. The PVC and how it is transparently used is the fixer recommended to correct the party weight and money bag style of politics which stand as a killer syndrome to good governance.

The progress we seek as Nigerian youths must not produce expected outcomes instantaneously, but let's be partners in progress by sending signals to the old politicians that we are a tidal wave that will in no distant time sweep them off the polity. Do not be afraid to try but make a giant stride as the" journey of a million mile begins with a step". Its not too late to correct the anomalies as February 16, 2019 is around the corner and with a sense of ideological and attitudinal change we can surmount this mountain before us to become a mole hill.

As long as there is the consistent application of the the faulty political formular by voting incompetent elements into power, the governance equation can never be balanced.

*UR PVC UR LICENSE TO A GREATER NIGERIA. VOTE WISELY!!!*