If Given the Chance Youth Can Lead Nigeria Better

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Yushau Sani Yankuzo

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Apr 20, 2010, 3:52:26 PM4/20/10

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Dear All,

I listened to an interview with Former Military President of Nigeria Rtd. Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida conducted by A’ishatu Musa of BBC Hausa Service, where the Former President categorically stated that “Nigerian Youth are incapable of ruling this Nation”. As a youth, this statement astonished me, because I wonder the type of statistics Gen. IBB used in assessing the level of Nigerian Youth capability. It is a clear fact that the representation of youth (between the age brackets of 18–35) at all levels of government in Nigeria is not up to 5%. If it is so, then how are their performances or capabilities being assessed? IBB cited an example with President Barrack Obama of the United States of America, where he mentioned that “Obama became the President of U.S. at his age because of the vast experience he acquired through the number of positions he held before becoming President”. Then the question here is, from the way things are going in Nigeria, are the Nigerian Youth giving similar opportunities Obama had at his younger age?

As far as I am concerned, it is very unfair for our aged and “so called” experienced leaders to keep telling youth that they don’t have “the know how” to rule this nation, while they deliberately keep denying the youth the right to build their own capacity so as to acquire this “know how” in question. It is like a teacher failing a student he poorly or never thought at all in class. No one in this world is born with knowledge, skills or expertise. We all learn everything here in the world through practice, which encompasses trying and failing and making a lot of mistakes and learning from those mistakes.

Therefore, my fellow Nigerian Youth join me in telling IBB and his fellow recycled leaders that Nigerian Youth has all it takes to rule this Nation, but only if they would be given the chance to do so by those who already ruled and failed the nation; those who think God created Nigeria only for their own rule and those they feel at safe to impose into power.

Yankuzo

Yusha'u Sani Yankuzo

Zonal Organizing Secretary

United Action for Democracy (North-West Zone)

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Secretariat

by Bukavu Army Barracks, Katsina Road, Kano

Kano State - Nigeria

Tel: +234 (0) 8033477704, (0) 8055558250

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