Shenanigans Of Youths During Politics -By Abubakar Muhammad Usman

Most of the times, it has been hearing that, youths are the backbone of any generation. But, unfortunately! The undeniable truth is that, youths do not pay any radical heed toward honouring their rights by being exceptional in any political thuggery. To come together as youths, in order to build a capacitive country and realise the long buried dreams of our heroes, we must get out of any political violence and seek for knowledge for the betterment of our tomorrow’s tenacity —in the built country.

In any perspective, youths have been observed as the source of political thuggery! Despite all the negligence after election, why don’t we understand that we are only important to the candidates during election but forgotten after? The naked truth is that, their sons study abroad and their masses’ sons do not even study at state polytechnics but few in exclusion. This is the first reason that any citizen should be aware of.

The second worsen part of it is that, every youth become drunkard whenever being in that so-called act! With that, how do we think of becoming something in future? As we all know, without being sensitive, all our dreams are dead.

Without going further, all Nigerian youths need is to acquire knowledge, not to be given any kind of weapon in the shade of campaign. Looking at the current situation, one would be heartily perplexed about how youths are treated whenever the gong of politics is beaten. What pains most is that, leaders who suppose to protect youths from falling into any ferocity by giving any possible support educationally, socially or economically; through giving scholarship, capitals or seeking jobs for the graduates.

As a leader, who did not win the election until youths have lost their lives, got injured or sentenced to prisons during his campaign. What kind of happiness will he get? But, to my surprise, leaders lead to the lost of lives –especially youths, but come to be forgetting the remaining youths and continue living happily. He will not come back to his masses but when the election starts blowing its whistle.

As a youth, like any other youth, I call my fellow youths. We have to come together as one to build our country where long buried unachieved hopes lie, waiting for us to accomplish them. But, my problem here is that, those dreams are unachieveable! Despite none is impossible, but something will be found difficult, and ours require knowledge! Giving the long sight, we would realise that we must seek knowledge first. Being political thuggerists is not ours.

Conclusively, I would like to give a fade voice to my dearest friends, constitutionally, we are allowed to vote to whom we have hope upon, not to be taken away by the dust of some people to follow their candidates. We need to give it a think, find a right candidate of our choice and vote for him. But voting for somebody’s candidate is one among the major problems we face here in Nigeria. Unless if we vote for our choice, then we would get what we hope to get after election.

Abubakar Muhammad Usman is a Nigerian poet, essayist and a story writer from Funakaye local government, Gombe State, Nigeria. He is a member of Gombe Jewel Writers Association, Creative Club Gombe State University and a current Press Secretary at Human Impact Global Initiative. His write-ups have been published by Daily Trust, Opinion Nigeria, Peoples Daily, Applied Worldwide, World Voices Magazine and elsewhere.