2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: NIGERIAN YOUTH NEEDS TO SPONSOR AND SURPORT A YOUTH!* BY: _hon fidel odiase_

2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: NIGERIAN YOUTH NEEDS TO SPONSOR AND SURPORT A YOUTH!

BY: _hon fidel odiase_ 

 Many Nigerian youths harnessed and amplify their voices through social media to demand good governance from these leaders of an older generation. The country riddled with insecurities, poverty, economic degeneration and political instability is one of the many reasons Nigerian youths must wake up to take over the nation’s administration in the forthcoming elections. The development of Nigeria is in the hands of the young and active.

the world belongs to the energetic” is apt in the struggle and fight for good governance in 2023. Nigeria’s leadership needs the young and energetic to catalyse development processes.

The country’s economy has been left in the hands of political hyenas and piranhas in the guise of old and supposedly witty leaders who are bent on killing the economy with obnoxious policies.

If this is not the case, how do you explain the exponential increase of dollars at the expense of naira? How do you justify uncontrolled and incessant killing and kidnapping rampant in the nation; what is the rationale for the increased level of insecurities and brutality citizens suffer under the governance of this administration? The political outlook of Nigeria under this administration is tarnished, and the need for a facelift by people who have the tendencies to redeem Nigeria’s image internationally is the youth who have been sidelined in the affairs of leadership.

This deplorable situation is a wake-up call from oblivion for Nigerian youth to harness our population to demand change with and inclusion of young innovative minds in the nation’s political system. The Nigerian youth population must present themselves as a force to reckon with in the 2023 election by our political activism by raising candidates with people-driven representation and uncompromised prospects for good governance. This political overhaul of gerontocrats will not be without resistance or barriers ranging from suppression to finance; however, the youth-led representation must be resilient in demanding a change of government with their vote and active participation in the 2023 election poll.

We must never be sceptical of the political and economic powers they wield; and if in doubt at any point, we should take a walk down memory lane on October 22, 2020, of the END SARS protest organised and managed by Nigerian youth against police brutality. Frightened by the cooperation of the youth that successfully managed the peaceful protest irrespective of their ethnic and cultural differences before the government sent out thugs to infiltrate the process, the government disrupts the protest violently.