I would like to talk about an interesting figure in the forthcoming
elections; Omoyele Sowore. He has been campaigning with the premise that
youths are the leaders of tomorrow, using a sell-able message as leverage for
his elections next year. Since his campaign, we have not heard him say anything
pertaining to how he intends to create jobs, boost the economy, solve
insecurity issues or provide constant power supply. His campaign is just about
gathering the youths together and taking power from the old; as if that is the
biggest problem we have in Nigeria.
Nigeria had always produced exceptional youths as leaders in
many ramification, we have had President Jonathan a much younger president
considering Buhari’s age. But having youths in position is far from the
solution to Nigeria’s problems. We need people to tell us how they intend to
turn around the country’s fortune for good and not people that will us that
they are going to scrap the national assembly. Scrapping the National assembly will
only compound the myriads of problems we already have in our country and not
solve any. If the NASS is scrapped, how will the executive be checkmated? It
sure means that the president and ministers would have super powers to do as
they so please.
I like Omoyele sowore bold steps towards becoming the next
president; I appreciate his effort as a youth, but the truth is that he cannot
be trusted. Sowore has always been a con man, an individual that in several
occasions have been accused of blackmail is sure not a fit for Nigeria
president. His news outlet ‘sahara reporters’ is used as a witch hunting tool
to target government officials he does not fancy or people who refuse to pay
him his desired ransom. We do not need a bigot or a blackmail ridding on the
back of our youths to achieve his personal ambition. If sowore want to be
president let him leave this youth narrative, come out as a candidate and
contest elections with others. The Nigeria youths do not have consensus candidate
yet, and even if we do it definitely will not be Omoyele Sowore C.E.O of a
blackmailing news site.
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