LEADERS OF TOMORROW

An open counsel to the youth

I say no to this phrase, we youths have been called leaders of tomorrow every single day where and when is the tomorrow coming, I disagree to this phrase after all the youth are the majority in the country, why can’t we be the leaders of today?

The youths are the labour force of the country, The youths are the one who determines the infrastructure and development of any country today.

 I am not yet calling for a protest but am now calling for a revolutionary and total overhaul of the Nigerian electoral system.

In Australia the minimum age for seeking office is 18 years, in 2010 Waywott Rot was elected in house of representative.

In Canada the minimum age to run for public office is 18 years.

And for Denmark is 18 years  

France 18 years, Germany 18 years, Israel 21 years, Iran 21 years.

And even the world super power US has 35 years as legitimacy to run for president.

 Note if you are between the ages of eighteen (18) to age thirty-five (35) then then you are a Nigerian youth.

Now who says the youths are just too naive? Where are those who say the youths are inexperienced and novice, are we any different or better than other nations abroad?

Who are those in government offices stealing our money, and taking them to another man’s land are they the youths?

The former British Prime Minister David Cameron said “if the same amount of money stolen from Nigeria for the last thirty years was stolen in the UK we would have seized to exist”

The last time Nigeria had a youth as a key office holder was in 1953 when Mathew Tawo Mbu of cross-river was appointed as the Federal minister of labour at age 23, even at then some elders were still against him but Nigerians could testify then that his service was a success.

Kim Jong Un of North Korea became supreme leader at 27 and North-Korea is still developing and progressing and even more advanced in technology as compared to Nigeria.

With all our Elders and Fathers in the government we are yet to see what they have done if not causing crises and looting public funds buying unnecessary jewelleries owning cars and assets, building hotels and houses abroad, One in the past boldly came out and said stealing is not corruption.    Then I pose this question what kind of leaders are we having in Nigeria.

If not for the current president, Muhammadu Buhari who is now trying to save their neck, but we all know there are shameless others who can never change their ways, after all a saying goes when you try to fight corruption, corruption fights right back at you. 

Yet I wonder with all this stolen funds all they seem to develop in is pot-belly and plump-chicks they don’t even look healthier than you or i, some even fall terminally ill and so on.

Well greed has no limits, and they would continue to deteriorate if they don’t desist. Now since the inception of independence where are we, have we moved forward or backward, everyday are we going a step forward and two backward? 

I don’t know what your answers are but look around you have we really progressed?, have we really achieved?, Can we compete with the world? Are we free or still in shackles by our own leaders and elders?

Youths the time has come, it is time we get prepared and our voice and actions be heard.    

By Abdulmateen Yusuf

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