AGENDA 2019: ABUJA CLIQUE CONNECTION, NIGERIAN YOUTHS NOT REALLY READY TO RUN.

Comparative analysis of Nigerian youths engagement with politics and the manifestation of any democratic interactions amongst the youthful population of Nigeria with the sole purpose of political mobilization to redefine socioeconomic and geopolitical architecture of Nigeria is not encouraging.


I am a keen observer of socioeconomic and geopolitical developments in Nigeria in relation to the dynamics, attitude, arguments and the level of political sagacity employed by the so called "politically conscious" youths and I must confess they lack the proper understanding of the framework or superstructure on which existing clientelist, pseudo-democratic, cultist, rentier capitalist system under which they perambulate operates.

One of the fundamental principles they neglect to take into consideration is the philosophical pronouncement that those who own the gavel of power, authority, influence and means of production in a clientelist, pseudo-democratic, cultist, rentier capitalist system under which they perambulate have a distinguishing characteristic of self-perpetuation. Therefore, any attempt in using persuasive argumentation in the direction of democratic easing for Nigerian youths full participation in governance shall be met with a brick wall.

Nigerian youths are daydreaming post-transition forgetting that the demand for change and restructuring would require revolutionary zeal and sacrifices without which nothing tangible can come out of their intellectual exchanges with entrenched interests who are hell-bent on consolidating their hold on power.

I am of the opinion that we are post-transitioning given the turbulence and distortions experienced in our polity social and geopolitical terms coupled with the ''non-transformative'' docile demeanour of Nigerian youths to stamp their political aspirations on developments concerning governance in our clime.

Nigerian youths should have capitalized on the confusion within the transition epoch by setting agenda for existing political parties given their numerical strength by pro-activity via a revolutionary take over of existing party political infrastructures using the avenue of political parties youth wings. IT IS EITHER YOU TAKE POWER FROM WITHIN OR WITHOUT.

 A critical look at the basket of #NOTTOOYOUNGTORUN reveals extreme incoherency in setting socioeconomic and geopolitical agenda simply due to lack of knowledge and incompetence in using the mechanism of social capital and technology to engender a revolutionary vanguard of youths to take over power using social media as an instrumentality for mass mobilization.

Deeply disappointed with #NOTTOOYOUNGTORUN looking at the total number of people who marched on @nassnigeria in respect of age discrimination. This is a divided youthful population with a movement without any grassroots support just imagine Biafra agitation garnered more grassroots support. A movement that lacks community level participation would not fly in effecting sociopolitical change #NOTTOOYOUNGTORUN is draped in the garment of those Abuja Clique who are themselves not really marginalized enough to push for liberation perspective or orientation.

It is noteworthy to state here that Nigerian youths must be ready to pay the ultimate price within the purview of what I call participatory action if they are really ready to run. Please take a cue from Venezuela, Tunisia, set an agenda for an egalitarian society now. Stop seeking a piece of the crumb or looking for paraphernalia of office to garnish your ego.