An advocacy group, Africana League, has charged Nigerian youths to actively participate in the politics and leadership selection processes in order to have a better future.
The group also said the Nigerian youths can not keep waiting for the next 70 years for a non-existent messiah that will take the country to the next level.
Executive director of the league, Glory Ukwenga, who stated this at a world press conference in Abuja yesterday, advised the youths to engage in processes that will put Nigeria on the map of global leadership as a superpower nation.
Stressing that the league does not aim to create a political party, Ukwenga said the group aims to train, nurture, incentivise and facilitate the ascendency of patriotic leaders across various political parties who are committed to the idea of nation building so that regardless of whose party emerges from elections, they can have minimum standards of skilled, conscientious and effective front-runners across all levels of governance.
She said: “At Africana League we ask even more pertinent questions; Does it make sense that we should all give up? If we give up, what about those who look up to us and are willing to fall in line if they see us take the right steps? Who will lead them?
“Should we wait for the next 70 years for a non-existent messiah by which time if we make it to that age, our lives will be filled with regrets of mundane living, waking up, eating, working unpleasant jobs, quarreling with our partners and procreating? Is that all there is to life?
“If Nigeria as it is cannot give us the hope for self-actualization, can we not find a way to give it to ourselves? Whatever will be the outcome of the Nigerian nation, the fact remains that it would be our responsibility to figure out solutions that work, solutions that take into account the realities of our Nigerian limitations and solutions that are therefore adaptable to the dynamics of our unpredictable society. This is the value that we as young people bring to the table of leadership.”
She further stated that, “Our claim to the quest of credible leadership is justified in our exposure to multi-cultural realities, in our capacity to think, in the adaptability of our intuition and in our boundless
energy and resilience. Our grit has been tested over no less than six years since 2017, we have been content with small accomplishments, we have learnt what works and what doesn’t, and now we are ready for great strides.”
