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Young Men, Please Stop Publicly Attaching Yourself To Politicians by Ofodirinwa: 6:32pm On Mar 06
Some of you are aspiring to be politicians. Some of you are aspiring to be leaders in one capacity or another. Nwanne, please, don't do it by being the public support club or mouthpiece of a Nigerian politician. It has never worked for any living soul on God's green earth.

Best way to enter politics in Nigeria
Quietly. Quietly attend party meetings. Quietly introduce yourself to politicians by showing them what you can credibly deliver. When they needs boys to do campaigning (offline), canvassing, printing materials etc, make yourself available. Go above and beyond and show that you can reliably deliver something they need. If it's your ability to bring out a group to come and vote (women's meeting, students union etc).

If they say 'we need ten youths' and you bring 10 youths consistently. Your value increases. Make sure people know you're the one who did it too. If they say we need 100, and you bring 100 consistently, even more. If you can assure victory in your ward or local government or help in the assuring of the process, then you have begun your career. Because you have credibility



How NOT to enter politics
Going online and being the public supporter of one politician or another. Even if you brought them 1 million votes, they will never believe it was your online efforts. Then, you make enemies with everyone who doesn't support that politician. Then those who support the politician will eventually leave you because the politician, as a politician, will humilate you and betray whatever nonsense you are saying online in their favor. Nigerian politicians don't believe individuals online are responsible for their success or have an impact as most hyper-online youths don't vote and most elderly nigerian people don't understand the internet well.

All you are doing is killing the one thing you need to succeed as a young person, credibility.
Even if said governor is the greatest of all time, don't become a public mouth piece for anyone because you are giving them full control of the thing you need to succeed in life, your credibility.



When it's time to bring people to vote, if you have attached your credibility to someone who disgraced you in the end, nobody will listen to you. You can support and love politicians but it is a childish error to be their cheerleader online because you cannot edit the internet

I am close to the process, and I am also a business owner. I have terminated contract negotiations when I encounter these types of people because it tells me they will tie the credibility of my company to some mumu governor or president. I learned this lesson the hard way when I hired an unnecessarily avid Buhari mouthpiece. As Buhari panned out to be a failure, my clients who were aware of his online behavior brought it up and in that moment I felt stupid on behalf of the mumu. It is annoying to be struggling, have an idiot contribute to the struggle, then give your money to someone who uses their data to campaign unnecessarily for the idiot's fan club captain.
Re: Young Men, Please Stop Publicly Attaching Yourself To Politicians by Ofodirinwa: 6:35pm On Mar 06
worst, some of you are business owners and will devote the public face of this business to one politician who, because of the nature of politics, will at minimum offend 50% of your potential customers.
Re: Young Men, Please Stop Publicly Attaching Yourself To Politicians by Dalohad: 6:55pm On Mar 06
Ofodirinwa:
Some of you are aspiring to be politicians. Some of you are aspiring to be leaders in one capacity or another. Nwanne, please, don't do it by being the public support club or mouthpiece of a Nigerian politician. It has never worked for any living soul on God's green earth.

Best way to enter politics in Nigeria
Quietly. Quietly attend party meetings. Quietly introduce yourself to politicians by showing them what you can credibly deliver. When they needs boys to do campaigning (offline), canvassing, printing materials etc, make yourself available. Go above and beyond and show that you can reliably deliver something they need. If it's your ability to bring out a group to come and vote (women's meeting, students union etc).

If they say 'we need ten youths' and you bring 10 youths consistently. Your value increases. Make sure people know you're the one who did it too. If they say we need 100, and you bring 100 consistently, even more. If you can assure victory in your ward or local government or help in the assuring of the process, then you have begun your career. Because you have credibility



How NOT to enter politics
Going online and being the public supporter of one politician or another. Even if you brought them 1 million votes, they will never believe it was your online efforts. Then, you make enemies with everyone who doesn't support that politician. Then those who support the politician will eventually leave you because the politician, as a politician, will humilate you and betray whatever nonsense you are saying online in their favor. Nigerian politicians don't believe individuals online are responsible for their success or have an impact as most hyper-online youths don't vote and most elderly nigerian people don't understand the internet well.

All you are doing is killing the one thing you need to succeed as a young person, credibility.
Even if said governor is the greatest of all time, don't become a public mouth piece for anyone because you are giving them full control of the thing you need to succeed in life, your credibility.



When it's time to bring people to vote, if you have attached your credibility to someone who disgraced you in the end, nobody will listen to you. You can support and love politicians but it is a childish error to be their cheerleader online because you cannot edit the internet

I am close to the process, and I am also a business owner. I have terminated contract negotiations when I encounter these types of people because it tells me they will tie the credibility of my company to some mumu governor or president. I learned this lesson the hard way when I hired an unnecessarily avid Buhari mouthpiece. As Buhari panned out to be a failure, my clients who were aware of his online behavior brought it up and in that moment I felt stupid on behalf of the mumu. It is annoying to be struggling, have an idiot contribute to the struggle, then give your money to someone who uses their data to campaign unnecessarily for the idiot's fan club captain.





The idiot you employed, was he Lordviccodaguru? That buharist mugu wey hunger wan kill sotey he no fit buy data nowadays. grin grin

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