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YOUTHS AND YOUTHISM FOR 2008
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YOUTHS AND YOUTHISM FOR 2008

I draw my inspiration from other progressives like Martin Luther king Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Patrick Lumumba, etc. who employed their vast wealth of erudition, experience and resources to extirpate their various societies from the abyss of social, economic and political quagmire.

I am greatly motivated by the immortal words of Empero Hail Sellessie of Ethiopia who says, and I quote It is the ignorance of those who suppose to know and the unwillingness of those who suppose to serve that make it possible for evil to triumph”.

Today, the state of things in Nigeria is as disheartening as just as it is ingenious. If I am asked to comment on the condition of things in Nigeria and if I am to put it bluntly, I will say that Nigeria is probably the geo-polity some European scholars had in mind when they postulated, though wrongly, that African by the chemistry of his composition, his psychology and attitude of the (sic) mind can never come up in this world, he has been sentenced to a life- long servitude to the yellow and pink people of this earth”.

After a painful period of self truth, retrospection, I have come to realize that we the youths prevaricated so much that our passivity has come to be taken for docility, we have become so indifferent to power that today, we have been overtaken by power-seekers, we have mistaken the loudest complainers for our good to be the most anxious for our good and betterment, we have mistaken serenity for saintliness and today, we are at the verge of mortgaging our destiny to a terrible perdition and sell the future of our children with such a heavy discount!

The message is for us to wake up from the cocoon of political servitude and pessimism. It is time to take our destiny in our hands for experience has taught us that no self-professed messiah can love us the way as or more than we love ourselves. It’s high time as 2008 is approaching, we ask ourselves the type of leaders we need. Do we need leaders who are vainglorious, selfish, myopic, toutish and unreliable? Do we need leaders who use us and dump us? Do we need leaders who use us and sacrifice our prestige, sense of pride, interest and comfort in other gain political relevance? Do we need leaders who vainly pride themselves as being richer that our States and Local Govt.when in essence they are economic parasites on us?

We need leaders who can muster courage, erudition and steer the ship of the continent. We need leaders whose achievements and antecedents, though not orchestrated, are conspicuous even for the blind to see. We need leaders who will always embrace the ethics of dialogue, diplomacy and constructive engagement and not militant confrontation in bettering the lot of the governed. We need leaders who will not polarize the good people of Nigeria along other Nations dichotomy for their own selfish ends. We need leaders who will not hesitate, if circumstance so demands, to pay the supreme price to better the lot of the people.

Finally, we need leaders who will not arrogate power to themselves but will regard themselves as the servants of the people and will not hesitate to relinquish the scared mandate which they hold in trust for the people when we so demand.

This is a task, God willing, all of us should jointly do because in the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

“When evil men plot, good men must plan,
When evil men bomb and blast, good men must build and bind

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love;

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate unjust status-quo; good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice” “I hold this truth to be self- evident that all Nigerians are equal!”

Let your leadership provide comic relief in the market place. We pray that our own child, Abia should not be the market button.

Alas, falsehood. Corruption and abuse of power have been allowed to feaster for too long. Abia State has been mired in the purgatory of misgovernance and want. Our economy has been distorted and disfigured by lame, unproductively and incapable hands. The hitherto united people of Abia state have been polarized along old Bend/ Ukwa-Ngwa axis for the resonance. We the masses have become negotiating tools-, which must; like the filthy tissue paper is discarded once they assume power.

Comrades, having been misled and misdirected into the wilderness of political blunder, squandamania and deceit, let us spew out the chloroform of pseudo-contentment that could anaesthetize us into further malaise. Let us do our best to support our individual communities and the youths in them, they remain the only detribalized friend of ours who can clear our path off such clusters that waste our people, sap our energy, paralyze our polity, strangulate our economy and dampen our collective spirit, and lead us to our rightful position in the comity of state. If Abia must be lead out of the woods, we must embrace a disciplined, and experienced leadership. Such leadership is such a rare occurrence in generations that ones lost. It takes decades and even centuries to be regained. Examples abound. Ghana prevented Nkuruma and Nkurumaism and Nigeria should Awo and Awoism from been realities but today, the people are searching for Nkuruma and Awo they did not value when they were with them. In the same vain, I wish to predict with all modesty that if by any act of omission, Nigerians should prevent the youths and youthism of real leaders from becoming realities of 2008. Nigeria will enter into generation of decadence, devoid of orientation and duration and the ship of the state will be drift. We would then, embark on along and fruitful search for real youths and youthism- God forbid!

Comrades, I must remind you that the struggle which we have consciously embark is one in which we be absolutely discipline. Be put on early notice that the leadership of youths will never condone indiscipline. Since we preach against certain vices in Abia Society, we should not contradict our teaching. If we embark on the habit of practicing the opposite of what we preach, our admonitions will not only know it’s force and potency but also, we our selves are bound to forfeit claim to credibility.

Again, it will be self- defeatist if we should think that the struggle is for self-enrichment. I must also remind us that the struggle is not going to be won a platter of gold. We are certainly going to meet both setbacks and triumphs but I pray that we meet them with equal mind. After all, it was Peter – not the Apostle peter – bur Peter the hero of Walpole’s novel entitled fortitude who after life has dealt terrible blows on him. Said “ it isn’t life that matters but the courage you bring into it ” Blessed are all trials that demand courage for out of these cometh the making of a man”. Again, V.I.Lamin ones said; “Man’s greatest possession is life and since it is given him to live but ones, he must so lives that while dying he might say, all my life and strength were given so the finest cause in the world – the liberation of mankind”.

It is upon this note that we embark on this sojourn from the known to the unknown. It is therefore, with brave heart, with confidence and hope that we move from this twilight into darkness unabashed in our resolute resolve to support and encourage our idol youths and unshaken in our faith in God that this sojourn will be heralded by a glorious and victorious dawn in 2008.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY.

Washington Dick

March 7, 2008 | 4:14 AM Comments  1 comments

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