Bro, I’ve listened to the President of Ghana’s speech about 20 times, and that’s a conservative estimate. It was a masterpiece, I swear. That speech will stand the test of time.
That’s how you introduce yourself, no quotes from anybody, just you & your life experiences. Eloquence 💯, choice of words is even more than 💯.
Your speech doesn’t need to be overly academic or packed with book references & quotes. Calm down, digest what you want to say, and deliver it without looking like you want to poopoo.
After spending one month away from Nigeria without handing over to his vice.
Assuming it was a Northerner on seat the SW would be the loudest voice calling for impeachment. Bunch of hypocrites.
Agreed, but that does not answer the point I raised.
The fact that the ADC presidential candidate, VP candidate, DG, DDG, etc., were formerly members of APC or other political parties does not mean every act of cross-carpeting should escape scrutiny.
My argument was never that changing political parties is wrong.
The young man says he was promised DDG New Media. The PCC list comes out and the position goes to someone else. He leaves the ADC the next day. Forty-eight hours later, he is pictured with Seyi Tinubu saying he now knows better.
Aren’t we supposed to interrogate his intentions from the start?
There is a difference between political realignment and abandoning a political platform immediately after a personal expectation is not met. Pointing to older politicians who have moved between parties does not address my point.
More importantly, why should the conduct of the older generation become the standard by which our own generation excuses itself?
It disgusts me, as a young person, to see people in my generation who have spent years condemning older politicians for opportunism, betrayal and transactional politics reproduce the same behaviour at the first disappointment and then defend it on the basis that “they did it too.”
Gimba, you are one of the brightest minds we have on these streets, and I am convinced you understand the point.
If we believe this political culture is broken, then our responsibility as young people should be to break the cycle, not inherit it.
Otherwise, are we really getting involved in politics to change the Nigerian political culture we have spent years condemning, or are we simply navigating our way to the top to do worse than the people we condemn?
You're right. In fact, the entire north is for ADC. H.E Atiku is the only candidate with unscathed, untainted and undiluted assurances of highest number of votes and 25% constitutional thresholds in all the 19 northern states.
With H.E Ameachi on board as VP candidate, the brutal fact which hurts Obi and Tinubu like plague is that @atiku will still doggedly drag the whole of southern region with both of them, all thanks to Atiku's subsidy restoration policy and national appeal.
No fears. Atiku will be declared the 17th substantive president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in May, 2027.
Interesting days ahead.
He was actually sacked as @RiseUpNaija_RUN Zamfara Cordinator a few months ago because we figured he only wanted the media attention and not the work itself
It’s been 133 days since 42 school children between the ages of 2 and 14 (only 4 are 15 years old) were abducted from their school in Askira-Uba, Borno state 💔 Nigerians, these aren’t just numbers, THEY ARE YOUR CHILDREN!!! @officialABAT@GovBorno@ProfZulum, we are all painfully waiting to hear the progress made by security forces to bring them home!!!! #BringBornochildrenHome
and whether we are willing to build a political culture where youth involvement is based on genuine representation, competence and ideas rather than merely on transactions.
That is the lesson I have taken from that encounter in 2014.
He said, and I quote: “Nigerian youths are commercialized.” At the time, I was upset by that statement. I genuinely believed that political relevance should be based primarily on ideas, competence, commitment and the desire to serve not on monetary considerations.
The challenge for Nigerian youths should therefore not simply be whether we participate in politics, but what principles we bring into that participation, what value we create,
particularly on the need for greater youth inclusion and participation in the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) for the re-election campaign of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. the course of the discussion, Senator Orji Kalu made a statement that stayed with me.
Some years ago, in 2014, while I was actively involved with the PDP, I had the privilege of attending a meeting where former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, was also present.
During that meeting, I was given the opportunity to speak on behalf of the youth,