NIGERIAN YOUTHS: OLISA AGBAKOBA SEARCHING FOR POLITICAL EL-DORADO.

It is the wisdom of the old to avoid burning one's fingers repetitively in the furnace of life because the experiences of the past leave an indelible impressions acting as signpost for the avoidance of future catastrophe. Here is Olusegun Obasanjo on generational shift; ''You should know that some of these young people, whose interest we canvass, have, in the recent past, been a complete disappointment and failures in their various appointed or elected positions.”



Obasanjo's comment corroborates my viewpoints in the following article and I would not be surprised if many in his generation have a vile opinion about the present generation of youths.

The wisdom of the old meanders through Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's counsel given to Olisa Agbakoba in respect of his request to the former president asking him to support generational shift in political leadership in Nigeria but I am perturb by the naivety exhibited by Olisa Agbakoba which reminds me of the behaviours of African leaders after independence who went cap in hand to the imperialist institutions like World Bank and International Monetary Fund hoping for genuine economic support and development loans only to be saddled with neocolonialist development paradigm infested with spiraling debt burden.

Olisa Agbakoba is walking the same path at 64 neglecting one of the fundamental principles for consideration in political philosophy that those who own the gavel of power, authority, influence and means of production in a neocolonialist, pseudo-democratic and influence merchandising system under which we operate in Nigeria 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.

Here is Olusegun Obasanjo again on generational shift; ''The failed young persons” should be disincentives to other young persons ... and not to expect the older would lead the stage for them.'' What is Olisa Agbakoba about? A man in search of political El-dorado for Nigerian youths who are disappointing in relation to governance sustainability and public administration responsibilities or has he just discover the benefits of godfatheristic misadventurism that produced two ineffectual buffoons via the mentoring programmes of Olusegun Obasanjo.

If that is the case, we are in for a long thing. Justin Pierre James Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were not given any political easing in the mannerism of godfatheristic protection; Olisa Agbakoba is seeking in order to rise to the leadership of their various political parties because internal party democracy is an entrenched element within political parties in the western hemisphere and that is what we need in Nigeria party politics.

Olisa Agbakoba must note that Justin Pierre James Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron are both grassroots mobilizers with entrenched pedigree in political engagements, they are not just flukes.

Obasanjo's admonition to Olisa Agbakoba to get himself engage and develop a political framework for mobilization should be seen from the above illustration, sitting on the sideline expecting political patronage or Manna to fall from Ota farm concerning generational shift is self delusion.

Obasanjo was very vivid, no generational shift be ready for the fight of your life. Nigerian youths must take the fight for leadership seriously. Olisa Agbakoba godfatheristic methodology will not do the magic. Here is Olusegun Obasanjo again on generational shift request of Olisa Agbakoba, “I ask you, dear Olisa, you are at a point where you should step forward and develop a mobilisation framework that seeks to rearrange Nigeria on a different basis of legitimacy.”

OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE IS A PHILOSOPHER.
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