The Question: Is Nigeria’s future save?

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Yesteray’s egg is the chick of today that will be tomorrow’s cock or hen. Since our early childhood education, we have always been told that we are the leaders of tomorrow. Indeed we clamour for it but we should ask ourselves if we are ready to step into the shoes of leadership that will turn Nigeria around?
Most of us, if not all, were not alive during the Nigeria’s military age but history made us understand that most of the heads of state we had were in their youthful age. Gowon was 32 when he became the head of state, and his successor Murtala Muhammed was 37. Their regimes were not unconnected with youthful exuberance but then it was minimal. Many of the top politicians of the first republic were in their youthful ages at the apex of their political career, yet they were heroes.
However, the attitudes of young bloods in politics nowadays is characterised with such rottenness that is almost legendary. Just like their “biguns” at the top of political strategies, students’ leaders now adopt what can only be compared with racketeering and devoid of intellectual motivation.
Nigeria politics today is characterized with food distribution (stomach infrastructure) to the electorates; this reflects the decadence in the Nigerian democratic system. It is quite sad that this has replicated itself on campus where we believe intellectuals who will be at the corridors of power tomorrow are bred.
Unfortunately, our students’ leaders have forgotten what they stand for, losing their dignity day by day. They make the politicians see students as gullible beings that can be easily lured for their personal ambition. Many UI students have lost hope in the present administration of Students’ Union led by Huntersola; but for the administration to renew its image, it gets worse.
Our president has dropped a stain that kills the integrity of our union when he led the so-called political gods among the students to the governor’s residence purposely to collect money to buy our votes for Abiola Ajimobi; even though he is corrupt, should our leaders tread the path?
Just like the Yoruba adage: the sheep that follows the dog will eat faeces. Our leaders have chosen to mix with “Radical brother” without checking his antecedent. He might have been a past president of the union; we should ask what his contribution was to the union during and after his tenure as the president?
He will probably tell us stories that won’t be meaningful to our existence as a union. If this is the kind of person we follow, we won’t probably grow and we might probably be digging the grave of the union and deeming the image of that ‘Canaan-land’ Nigeria wished.
When the bad becomes norm, the shameful things become decent. It wasn’t surprising to see “labzy” share on Facebook that the first time he collected money from a politician was when he was in Tedder hall while his chairman took the largest share to show that collecting money from a politician is a tradition. Should this be so?
Even though, we never imagine what that student had in mind before trekking all the way to Queen Idia and Obafemi Awolowo hall from Mellanby hall every morning just to sponsor students’ transportation after our Nnamdi Azikiwe brothers who love their neighbours more than themselves had helped them wash their thanks forgetting theirs.
We should demand accountability from this administration as much we search for those who will not tread the path of his predecessor.