There's nothing wrong with a youth becoming the President of Nigeria,afterall, the current president of France is a youth. In the same vain, there's absolutely nothing wrong with an old man becoming a President. In Malaysia, a youth was voted out to give room for a man in his nineties (92, to be specific) to become the President!
Age is NOT a Barrier In Governance!
We have one of the youngest governors in Kogi's State House. Please, go ask an average Kogite how gladly he would like to vote him back to power next electioneering year in the state to see things for yourself!
My point is that age is no barrier to good performance,neither is it a guarantee of good governance. So, for someone to come out to campaign and the main point he has against his opponent is advancement in age or the weakness that comes with it is quite disappointing and disrespectful to our old folks!
If you've got better offers, you should spend time to communicate them to the people and leave the person of your opponent(s) out of it. Nigeria's got too many problems for room to be made for the attack of personalities during campaigns. Like I said earlier, there's nothing wrong with a youth taking over power and I am in fact in support of it. What I would not have is a RUDE youth taking over the Aso Rock!
The Current Set of Youths Aren't Ready
I'll like to begin with the comments and reactions of the Youthful Presidential Aspirants during the Presidential debate. They showed a very high level of disrespect for those presidential aspirants that were absent. They attacked their persons freely without hindrance. None of them deemed it fit to show constraint and make polite excuses on their behalf (for their absence).
I was expecting comments like 'Well, it's quite unfortunate that they couldn't make it, for reasons best known to them,they couldn't make it, especially, Mr President that I wish to tackle on some of his policies that I see as anti people. It's painful, though, but, nonetheless, the debate must go on and I know, he would get to see the playback of the debate and hopefully respond to whatever issue that's raised.'
That's how people of courtesy do. They don't attack or tongue lash the opponent behind their backs just to score cheap political goals. It was so disrespectful and honestly, in my opinion, disqualifies the aspirants from becoming President. I mean, if they could be that rude as an aspirant, only God knows how far they'll go when they become President.
Sowore Goofed!
The most promising of them all,to me, is Sowore, the owner of Sahara Reporters. But, unfortunately, he turned out to be the most rude of the youth aspirants. He's so direct and throws courtesy to the winds!
The other time, on TVC, he was interviewed along with Moghalu.While Moghalu was trying to be gentlemanly in his approach, trying to prevent direct confrontations, Sowore continued to provoke it (direct confrontations) with every opportunity he had. Well, that's just about the point.
Sowore goofed BIG TIME when he was asked concerning the minimum wage. One of the Anchors asked him how much he would pay as minimum wage? My brother just spit it out without thinking about it. He said that he would pay the sum of a hundred thousand Naira as minimum wage. While I was still trying to handle the shock,he let out the bombshell!
Sowore claimed that the decision was actually a product of careful research on his part. He was so confident and so proud of his submissions that he went ahead to attack Moghalu who said that he would firstly study the situation on ground after his ascension to power before he can decide on that. He accused him of not being sensitive enough to the plight of the Nigerian workers!
Sowore goofed coz, he failed to realize that the only consequence of salary increase is inflation and the devaluation of the Naira. What he failed to realize is that the price of everything shoots up in matter of weeks that the new wage regime begins. Would discuss that in subsequent posts on this blog,please stay tuned.
According to Sowore, Nigeria can pay, but, the question is that how much would you pay Directors and Managers when you pay Gardeners and Gatekeepers N100 000??? When I said that these guys were not ready on facebook, some guys spared no time in attacking me over the matter. But, can we say Sowore who's promising a N100 000 minimum wage ready to take charge of Nigeria???
Hell No!
What I Expected From The Youths
I am in full support of the 'Not Too Young To Rule' mantra. But, we shouldn't be in a rush to take power. I was expecting the youths to test out the waters, learn on the job by starting small and from the grass root. I expected the youths to begin their political career from places like the Councillorship, LG Chairmanship and at most, the Governorship....certainly not the Presidential part. I would have expected the youths to occupy the State Houses of Assembly and the National House of Assembly.
I expected the youths in politics to first of all build their political careers so that they wouldn't be hoping to win Presidential elections from winning Presidential Debates. The current crop of aspirants had NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICAL CV to proof their worth. They've got nothing other than their sharp mouths, the more reason they were disappointed that Atiku and Buhari wouldn't do debate.
Fellow Nigerians, I've got a lot to share with you concerning the Elections, yet, I don't want to overwhelm you with too much info. I'll stop for now so that you may digest what I've shared so far. I'll see you on Wednesday!
God Bless Nigeria!
Age is NOT a Barrier In Governance!
We have one of the youngest governors in Kogi's State House. Please, go ask an average Kogite how gladly he would like to vote him back to power next electioneering year in the state to see things for yourself!
My point is that age is no barrier to good performance,neither is it a guarantee of good governance. So, for someone to come out to campaign and the main point he has against his opponent is advancement in age or the weakness that comes with it is quite disappointing and disrespectful to our old folks!
If you've got better offers, you should spend time to communicate them to the people and leave the person of your opponent(s) out of it. Nigeria's got too many problems for room to be made for the attack of personalities during campaigns. Like I said earlier, there's nothing wrong with a youth taking over power and I am in fact in support of it. What I would not have is a RUDE youth taking over the Aso Rock!
The Current Set of Youths Aren't Ready
I'll like to begin with the comments and reactions of the Youthful Presidential Aspirants during the Presidential debate. They showed a very high level of disrespect for those presidential aspirants that were absent. They attacked their persons freely without hindrance. None of them deemed it fit to show constraint and make polite excuses on their behalf (for their absence).
I was expecting comments like 'Well, it's quite unfortunate that they couldn't make it, for reasons best known to them,they couldn't make it, especially, Mr President that I wish to tackle on some of his policies that I see as anti people. It's painful, though, but, nonetheless, the debate must go on and I know, he would get to see the playback of the debate and hopefully respond to whatever issue that's raised.'
That's how people of courtesy do. They don't attack or tongue lash the opponent behind their backs just to score cheap political goals. It was so disrespectful and honestly, in my opinion, disqualifies the aspirants from becoming President. I mean, if they could be that rude as an aspirant, only God knows how far they'll go when they become President.
The most promising of them all,to me, is Sowore, the owner of Sahara Reporters. But, unfortunately, he turned out to be the most rude of the youth aspirants. He's so direct and throws courtesy to the winds!
The other time, on TVC, he was interviewed along with Moghalu.While Moghalu was trying to be gentlemanly in his approach, trying to prevent direct confrontations, Sowore continued to provoke it (direct confrontations) with every opportunity he had. Well, that's just about the point.
Sowore goofed BIG TIME when he was asked concerning the minimum wage. One of the Anchors asked him how much he would pay as minimum wage? My brother just spit it out without thinking about it. He said that he would pay the sum of a hundred thousand Naira as minimum wage. While I was still trying to handle the shock,he let out the bombshell!
Sowore claimed that the decision was actually a product of careful research on his part. He was so confident and so proud of his submissions that he went ahead to attack Moghalu who said that he would firstly study the situation on ground after his ascension to power before he can decide on that. He accused him of not being sensitive enough to the plight of the Nigerian workers!
Sowore goofed coz, he failed to realize that the only consequence of salary increase is inflation and the devaluation of the Naira. What he failed to realize is that the price of everything shoots up in matter of weeks that the new wage regime begins. Would discuss that in subsequent posts on this blog,please stay tuned.
According to Sowore, Nigeria can pay, but, the question is that how much would you pay Directors and Managers when you pay Gardeners and Gatekeepers N100 000??? When I said that these guys were not ready on facebook, some guys spared no time in attacking me over the matter. But, can we say Sowore who's promising a N100 000 minimum wage ready to take charge of Nigeria???
Hell No!
What I Expected From The Youths
I am in full support of the 'Not Too Young To Rule' mantra. But, we shouldn't be in a rush to take power. I was expecting the youths to test out the waters, learn on the job by starting small and from the grass root. I expected the youths to begin their political career from places like the Councillorship, LG Chairmanship and at most, the Governorship....certainly not the Presidential part. I would have expected the youths to occupy the State Houses of Assembly and the National House of Assembly.
I expected the youths in politics to first of all build their political careers so that they wouldn't be hoping to win Presidential elections from winning Presidential Debates. The current crop of aspirants had NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICAL CV to proof their worth. They've got nothing other than their sharp mouths, the more reason they were disappointed that Atiku and Buhari wouldn't do debate.
Fellow Nigerians, I've got a lot to share with you concerning the Elections, yet, I don't want to overwhelm you with too much info. I'll stop for now so that you may digest what I've shared so far. I'll see you on Wednesday!
God Bless Nigeria!
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