Title:

YOUTHS AS
NATION
BUILDERS

BY:

Rev Dr. Ayuk,

E.S

DEDICATION
The book is dedicated to God Almighty and all the
Youths in Nigeria.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly, I acknowledge the Almighty God for giving me
excellent wisdom, Knowledge and understanding,
above all the divine direction to package this book.
Secondly, I will appreciate my dear wife Mrs. Pastor
Magdalene Sunny Ayuk for her love and continuous
support for this book.
I thank the National Chairman of the People
Democratic Party Alhaji Dr Bamanga Tukur,(con) Mr.
Yakubu Shedam The youth president of Nigeria for
his able support and a National Youth Leader of the
Peoples Democratic Party,Hon. Abdullahi Hussaini
Maibasira. Also my beloved friends and brothers Barr.
Ojong Nicholas Agbor and Barr. Clement Manyo Oru
Assam.
Let me use this opportunity to thank Mr & Mrs
Owonifuja Fatai O. for their immense contribution
toward this project. I acknowledge Dr. Lanre Adebayo,
the Director General of the People Democratic
Institute for making this dream a reality. I thank Hon.
Victor Abang, SA to the Senate President for his
moral and financial support toward the packaging of
this book.

INTRODUCTION
Although Youths in Nigeria have suffered nonrepresentation of what was known, thought-of, or
experienced before and at the instance of good
governance. It is quite embarrassing to know far
more that youths only have been managed as
instruments of violent and destruction.
This book Youths as Nation Builders in Nigeria
provides contemporary, simple and memorable guide
to the leadership positions of our generation. It is
therefore a definite landmark, commendable
contribution to scholarship and a bold attempt to
solve crude political mastership problem commonly
referred to as Political Fathers. The book is
seasoned like a dish with the requirements of the
day.
Youths as Nation Builders are to make use of the
government promises of youth participation in
development, policy formulation and implementation.
The book provides youths the
opportunity to
examine strategy for implementing the policy agenda
on youth participation in governance. Stakeholders in
government at National, State and Local Levels

should
be
aware
of
the
socio-economic
consequencies of week youths participation in
governance as its been manifested in social vices,
youths poverty, insecurity, unemployment and
underdevelopment. At the moment the National is
faced with high level security challenges, this can
explain how and why we should design the
institutional frame work that will reframe the mindset
of the youths from restiveness and digression. What
tools, principles and methods work best for a
comprehensive design of action system which
contextualizes and under pin youths in the overall
development planning system of all governments
and institutions in Nigeria as a positive step toward
greater
development
performance,
poverty
reduction, reduction in crime and violence and the
delivery of the Millennium Development Goals, vision
20:20:20: in the contexts
of the transformation
agenda of Mr. President .
The book shall provide in practical terms the
performances of responsible youths in Government.
Taking cognizance of all the sceneriors in the youths
system and sub system,
pro youths policy
formulation, maintenance and intagration, and
effective ways of operating and checking for
adherence to good moral conducts, standards,
concepts and practice as well as stabilization of the
change occasion by youths imbibing excellent moral
values. The book also demand for instrument for

stabilization of specified goals and solutions an well

as tools for monitoring and evaluating youths
progress in governance. Only the morally upright
youths, should play strategic role in Nation building,
our
governments
should
build
functional,
organizational and institutional capacities to ensure
youths engagement in National Development as
contained in the transformation agenda. This book is
a sensitization that strengthen demand for more
practical actions that metamorphoses from a world of
hopelessness, crime and violence to a new world of
hope, orderliness,peace and perfect transquility in
the development policy design, and implementation
at all levels. The book provide a road map on how the
youths
should
conduct
themselves
for
a
comprehensive youths participation, perspective
participation and functional engagement in National
development planning and governance.

Daniel Webster in one of his books quoted if we

work on marble it will perish. If we work upon brass,
time will efface it. If we build temples, they will
crumble to dust. But if we work upon mens immortal
minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with
the fear of God, and love of fellow man, we engrave
on those tablets, something which no time can

efface, and which will remain memorable in the

history of man kind.
The youths in the society began to deviate from God
moral conducts based on the thuggery orientation
given them by corrupt and selfish masters. Their
masters rather than telling them truth about life,
deceived them and threw them into a world of
falsehood and so a Godly and up right orientation
must given and a solid foundation must be laid to
exhume the youths from a world of hopelessness,
crime and violence to a new world of hope,
orderliness,
peace
and
transquility
in
the
development policy design and implementation at all
levels. This book provides a roadmap for how youth
should conduct themselves for a comprehensive
youths participation, perspective participation and
functional engagement in National Development
planning and governance. The youths had suffered in
the past, like sheep without shepherd. They lacked
orientation on how best to develop the potentials in
them. The isolation from leadership, in the past
traumatized their development as youths, this can
easily be seen through the way youths roams the
streets and villages in the society, with their youthful
potentials in thorough subversion, the negligence of
the youths derailed their future development as well
as compounded their woes of hopelessness and
despair. They resorted to become objects of armed
robbery, ritual killings, examination malpractice,

thuggery, hooligans and miscreants in the society.

The woes of the Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda, Kidnappers,
and Militants etc. youths in the past are attributed to
lack of education, direction and orientation. These
are due to the negligence of the past leaders towards
youths development.
The good life of the youths supposes to be an
embodiment of excellent aspirations, Future Leaders
and force of integration and unification in the society.
But through negligence by the past leaders to
develop the potentials in the youths, many of them
became contumacious rather than integrative
elements in the unification of our society. This
depreciated our societal values, forcing many to
constitute nuisance to the society today. The book is
written in order to restore, unite, re-energize and revitalize the mental consciousness of youths, which
had been infiltrated with high moral decadence. It
teaches the youths how to curb their aggravated
social vices, and creates direction and guidance on
how to make meaningful impact in the administration
of the society where they belong. The past leaders
imbedded a hopeless future in the youths as well as
the un-exploration of unique potentials in them. This
forced the youths to be unguided in their moral
principles of life, whereby they live as if tomorrow
does not exist. Their ways of living indicates a
tragedy of doom creating a gloomy atmosphere and
betrayal by those they entrusted their future in their

hands. This book is put together to re-orientate the

youths, on how best to attain relevance in the
society, and how to eschew violence. The book
infuses youths with knowledge, which inspires
direction, and enthusiasm towards self-development.
Youths as Nation Builders is a book which in great
measures creates awareness, on the roles of youths
to stabilize their positions in the society and how best
to protect democracy and its dividends. It also
implores youths in leadership to erect structures,
which will develop the youths in the future.
Furthermore, it calls on the leaders to refocus on
more solid values of developing the potentials in
youths, which will sustain them in future, rather than
dissipating energy and resources on some current
populist
selfish
agitations
that
are
always
retrogressive and stands as an impediment to the
progress of the nation. The book implores the leaders
to create foundation for legacies, which youths will
build on for their future benefit.
Our founding fathers and Mothers of this Country who
came from very humble backgrounds, amiable and
impeccable, were able to co-ordinate their reasoning
faculties to live sacrificial lives contributed all their
might to ensure that Nigeria as a Nation remain one
united Nation and to ensure that Nigeria as Nation
must be freed from British imperialistic tendencies
that in capacitated our united existence and created

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us into regional blocks like Northern Nigeria, Western

Nigeria and Eastern Nigeria. Imperialism totally
destroyed our loved cultural and traditional beliefs
and practices.
They began the demolition of our well adhered
moral conducts giving way to alien practices. Our
founding Fathers and Mothers came together
irrespective of tribe, religion, language, culture or
tradition to put British imperialism to an end with the
attainment
of
independence
in
1960.
The
encouraged inter-tribal marriages and sang the song
of peace, love and unity in their different regions.
They introduce civic education into our schools
curriculum to teach moral conducts that will enable
our youths build a better Nigeria. They were not
corrupt, not sectional, not greedy, and not over
ambitious but respected everyone and lived
accountable and transparent lives.
The advent of the Military in Nigeria bastardized
the morally laid foundation; first civic education was
removed from curriculum and was replaced with
social studies, then began the moral decadence in
our society as moral education was no longer taught
in schools. The situation became worsened with the
coming of corrupt civilian regimes that empowered
youths with arms and ammunitions for their selfish
interest and later abandoned them. These youths
became nuisance to the society, forming themselves

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into criminal gangs like the Militants in the SouthSouth,Boko Haram in the North, kidnappers in the
South-East, Robbers and ritualists in the West.
Our founding fathers and mothers of this country
were with famous achievement. They lived noble life
worthy of emulation by the citizen of the Country. The
following were heroes and heroine before and
independence,
Bayajidda,
Oduduwa,
Usmandan,Fadio, king Jaja of Oprbo, Queen Amina,
Mohammed El-kanemi, Nwanyereuwa and Fumilayo
Kuti. Then came Nigeria independent heroes like Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Sir Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa, Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, Herbert Macauley and Sir Ahmadu
Bello.
These founding fathers and mothers ensured
good welfare packages for their subjects, they
promoted the existence of peace and unity in their
areas of control and authority. They maintained law
and order, they could easily step down for others.
They promoted and protected the interest of their
subjects. They organised their subjects so well that
the goals of their societies were achieved.
Our politicians today rather than following the
foundation of our founding Fathers and Mothers
resorted to promoting states of origin syndrome,
tribe, crime, violence, thuggery and all kinds of vices
that have rendered many youths useless, that if not
by the help of God would have turn the Nation apart.

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However, Nigeria is blessed with all manner of

potentials that can still stand out to portray the
qualities of good leadership as taught by our
founding fathers and Mothers. We have youth leaders
today who shun bribery and corruption, who break
religious and tribals barriers, promote inter-tribal
marriages, friendships, and believe in hand work,
honesty, and accountability and transparency. They
have love for the Nation and respect for fellow
Nigerians.
The likes of Mr.Ekpenyong Ita Director General, State
Security Service, added modest achievements to the
service by giving a good fight against Terrorism and
insurgents. According to the Guardian Newspaper of
16th September 2013, the State Security Services
graduated 385 Cadets, the Kano award of
N14.2billion IPP contract boasted the efficiency of the
service. The service under the able leadership of Mr.
Ekpenyong Ita was able to create a formal platform
for undertaking consultations that brought about the
most recorded achievements. With the promotion of
education and the continous training and retraining
of staff, it has equipped the service against crime,
violence and terrorism. The State Security Service in
no small measure has been able to curtail the
activities of looplums, Boko Haram, Armed Robbers,
Kidnappers, Ritualists, Millitancy, Child Trafficking and
Prostitutions, to mention but a few. The State
Security Service in Delta state has a new detention

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facility meant to enhance its operations. The modern

complex, designed for high profile suspect was built
and handed over to the security outfit by Niger Delta
Development Commission
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland
Revenue Service, Popularly referred to as Revenue
House, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, is efficiently and
effectively gathering revenue for the Nation, for
appropriate and adequate planning for the teaming
youths population, and for President Goodluck
Jonathan Transformation Agenda to be successfully
implemented. The Federal Inland Revenue Service,
under the Leadership of her Chief Executive Officer,
Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, is part of its ongoing
reforms. Seek to maintain successful track record of
consistent Personal achievement for atleast 16 years,
of which a minimum of eight years.
The Mid-term Report of the Transformation Agenda,
according to National Bureau of 29 th May, 2013, the
Federal Inland Revenue Service has contributed
immensely to Community Service, Women and
Youths Employment Scheme. The revenue accruing
into the National Purse, from the Revenue House is
been accountably and honestly used by the Federal
Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development,
for the provision of houses for the low income
earners and infrastructures for the development of
towns and cities.

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Abubakar Dahiru Mohammed, Inspector General of

Police,
inline with Mr President Transformation
agenda since his assumption of office has been
working tirelessly in the last two years. He has been
uo to the task in tackling one major problem
confronting
President
Goodluck
Jonathan
administration which is Insecurity. The Nigeria Police
Force under the leadership of Inspector general has
decisively dealt with Boko Haram in the North, Piracy
on the Nigerian water ways, Kidnapping, Pipeline
Vandalism, Armed Robbers and a host of other
security challenges across the country. Abubakar
Mohammed came at the time of high insecurity in
Nigeria. He is a tough and radical officer, who has
actually given criminals and terrorist tough time. He
is providing a model leadership to the force, and has
been able to check the increasing criminality. He
ordered the removal of police checkpoints across the
Nation. The policy of zero tolerance to corruption has
since lead to the dismissal of some officers. His eagle
eyes are on to purge the force of corrupt element.
Through him, the bulk of the corruption perpetrated
by the police at the various road blocks, and police
stations have been reduced to the minimum through
various reforms executed. According to Frank Mba,
the Police Public Relation Officer, that the police
under the present Inspector General are a discipline
force that regularly evaluate the conduct of its
officers in order to ensure orderly policing. The

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Inspector Generally has been working very hard to

redeem the image of the force and transform it to a
new police, so as to restore public confident in the
force. He makes sure that the policy is in the
investigation base. Plans have been concluded to
expose officers and men of the force to intelligence
and detective training programs to do away with the
crude and reactionary fight against crime. Abubakar
Mohammed decided to boost the moral of officers of
the force by proposing fifty thousand naira minimum
wage to a constable and has put in place other
welfare packages for the hardworking officers.
President Jonathan in the last two years has
increased budgetary allocation to the force and this
has enabled the force under the present Inspector
General to acquire sophisticated weapon and
equipment to
fight crime,
to
sustain
the
transformation agenda of Mr. President. Today Police
officers are been given award for their gallant and
responsible performance across the nation and at the
peace keeping operations across the globe. The case
in point is that the Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Area E, Festac town Lagos Damien Okoro who was
able to Shun Fifteen Million Naira bribe to do his work
without fear or favour . He was conferred with
meritorious award and certificate of bravery by
President Goodluck Jonathan on the gruesome
murder of Cynthia Osokogu, a post graduate student,
murdered by her facebook friends in Lagos.

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Mr. Donald Duke, former Governor of Cross River

State, Senator Lyel Imoke, the present Governor of
Cross River State, Dr. Emmanuel Oduaghan,
Governor of Delta State, Nuhu-Ribadu of EFCC, Nassir
El-Rufai of FCT, Dr. Dora Akunyili of NAFDAC, Godswill
Akpabio Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State,
Barr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Governor of Lagos
State have shown that with good knowledge about
Nation building that brought turn-around on the
development of the society. In the past, we had seen
that youths were unfairly maligned, in the leadership
of our society, so in view of the present situation, it is
a privilege to put together this book to educate
youths on how to sustain their relevance in the
society and how best to protect their leaders from
detractors. Youths can redeem their incarcerated
potentials, when they coat themselves with good
moral conducts; it is the only way to arrest
hopelessness, idleness and vandalistic behaviors in
their lives. With the book youths as Nation Builders
the youths can discover wisdom and dynamism in
their lives, which will propagate better conducts in
the society.

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CHAPTER I
YOUTHS ASPIRATIONS
Youths in the society have dreams and aspiration.
This is vital because it provides, ample opportunity to
make decisions, which can take one to his aspiration
or in making the choice of a leader who will take him
to his dreams. Youths aspire to live in unity, diversity,
and to dwell among people who are peace oriented
but when these aspirations are daunted by selfseeking leaders in the society, they always turn to
harbinger of despair, making accomplishment
unattainable.
The emergence of youths in leadership today is
attested to the fact that youths are learning from the
past history. Our past leaders have deceived us
greatly with their old fashioned pattern of leadership,
making us to live on empty promises and falsehood.
While their pockets are growing every day to our
detriment. Today where is Structural Adjustment
Programmed? Where is operation house for all
Nigerians by 2010? Where is Operation Feed the
Nation?,
and
where
is
Poverty
Alleviation
Programmed? Look at the state of roads, schools,
hospitals and electricity, even petroleum and water

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board are all-malfunctioning. Where is the hope of

the youths under their leadership? The self-imposed
political elites then, misled us and severely
devastated our aspirations. They were busy building
sky scrappers and private schools, without any
attention to our public schools.
How long can we be driven by blind emotion? Must
we continue to live a subordinate life to elites who
never see any thing good in our future well-beings?
As youth who have the abilities and the capacities to
stop wrong leaders from ascending the thrown, It is
most appropriate we stand our ground, to protect
those who are already there, instead of making our
selves available tools for mischief makers, who are
only out to pull down our youth leaders in
government whom we have found to be credible. Let
us in one accord unite together to keep them there
and get more youths to join them. We must
encourage our present youth leaders to exterminate
all unwholesome structures of our past leaders.
The crises in many States of the Federation are
reflections of youths shattered aspirations. Our
leaders in the past found joy in keeping us idle in
order to use us to assassinate, victimize and
disorganize those considered as political enemies.
They refused to create jobs, because they will no
longer lure us to perpetrate their evil, when we all
have veritable means of lively-hood.

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How long will the youths continue to be available as

weapon of destruction? The complexity and
perplexity of the situation in the Nation have made
youths in a society to reach an alarming proportion
of violence that requires a vivid answer to this
question. Can Nigeria produce excellent Nation
builders?
The youths as Nation Builders are a blessing to this
generation. A society that has no youth as a leader
should know that their future is not guaranteed. In
other words, youth leaders should know the
aspirations of the youths in the society.
The youths are in need of societies with good societal
values, society with good plans for their youths
sustenance and realization of their dreams. The
duties of our leaders are to create jobs and improve
the standard of living for the common man. Inspired
leaders who can maintain high level of justice and
fairness to the citizens, leader who will repair roads,
upgrade the hospitals and school and leaders who
are so visionary about a better tomorrow.
As youths are aspiring for more leadership positions,
there are things the youth in general will not want
from their leaders.
(1) We dont want leaders who will use our resources
only to flex muscle with their political rivals.

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(2) We dont need leaders who are poised to destroy

our tomorrow again.
(3) We dont want leaders who are money and war
mongers, because they lack visions to implement
structures for youths development.
(4) We dont want leaders who are drug patrons
(5) We dont want leaders who are in sensitive to our
cries
(6) We dont want leaders who always apply divide
and rule principles.
(7) We dont want leaders who smile in the face of
blood shed.
The emergence of youth leadership is a sort of relief
for the whole youths in the society. It has proved that
youths have overcome unbearably, Intolerable and
melancholy state which the past leaders placed on
them. So we need to maximize our support for those
in leadership in order to excel in our aspiration. A
look at the political and religious crisis in the past in
some parts of the country you will understand that it
was youths that killed themselves. The cause of this
was the past leaders insensitivity to some sensitive
issues and their inability to manage the youths. One
thing youths should know is that, for us to kill
ourselves in political and religious crisis is
tantamount to gross misinformation and wickedness

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that resulted to marginalization, unemployment and

lack of education. Now that we have hope of a better
future, we must learn how to have high regard and
value for our dear lives. We must note that those who
incite us against one another never partake in such
violence. For decades, youths had been subjugated
to failures and rivalry, accusation and blackmail,
using one to maim another in the name of politics
and religion. Now is time to face realities, realities in
a way that, those that incites us to crises are afraid
to die in crises. Under normal circumstance, which
youth in his right mentality will accept to die for a
million naira? We should relent from making
ourselves available for those mischievous men in our
society. The truth is that any one who incites youths
to violence is mischievous in his intention and he is
poised to put the progress of our youths to
stagnancy. For our aspiration to materialize, every
youth in the society now must raise valid objection
to the instigation of our dangerous political elites. It
is significant to stand in opposition to their schemes
to create havoc. The progress of this society is not for
adult, but for youths, because we are the propelling
machine of every society.
The foundation of progress we destroy today will
affect us tomorrow. The domination of our past leader
will continue to exacerbate if we fail to put up strong
resistance to their inducement.

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In the history of mankind, no good father who meant

well for his children will allow his children to die in
violence; no good father will sit down comfortably
seeing his sons and daughters roaming the street in
idleness. How can a loving father be comfortable with
his daughters becoming commercial sex workers and
sons bathing in streams of blood during crises?
Youths indulgence in drug, child trafficking, abuse of
any kind and other criminal activities that are
inimical to our welfare is as result of negligence by
our leaders. Our lives in the past were endangered
with their manipulation of our mentalities, but today,
we are out of the wood, because we have our own
youths in leadership. With this in mind, we must try
to reject the antiquated policies of the past leaders
on us, and then embrace our youthful leaders who
will design structures to take us to our aspirations.
As youths are living in expectation for better future,
we must do everything possible to dissuade our
political fathers to stand aside and watch youths with
vision to create a turn around in the leadership of the
society. Now that youths with good moral background
are in leadership in Nigeria, it will be a collective
responsibility of youths to up-hold themselves with
good support towards their leadership, considering
the level of crime in the society. We need to ask
another question, must we kill our fellow man before
we become prominent in the society? The answer is
No. Crime of any sort must be denounced; to

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embrace our peaceful living that has been known for

community love and hospitality.

CHAPTER II

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THE TRUE GENIUS

Who is a genius? A genius must have a vision, must
add values, must be a leadership culture and must be
focus. A genius must be a servant to his followers
must be industrious, should be polite while discussing
with his followers. He must be accessible to his
followers; He must not be far from his followers. He
must be a well disciplined person, must be impartial
as to be fair to all his followers. He must be able to
communicate freely and easily to the larger society.
He must be tolerant because his followers are made
of different characters and attitudes. He must not too
rigid in handling issues affecting his subjects. He
must be intelligent, brave and dynamic enough to
face any situation. He must have interest in the
problems of his subjects. He must be honest,
transparent and a good follower.
To acquire a true genius one need to learn from the
past. Despite our ingenuity and great learning, we
are still entangled to leadership failures because we
lacked knowledge in making the choice of our genius.
Bitter experience of violence and brutality still linger
in our memories simply because, we have sold our
birth rights. One thing to note, Is that the history of
the past is in a better position to dictate leaders with
stupendous knowledge about leadership. The likes of
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, chief Obafemi Awolowo, and
Alahaji Tafawa Balewa, were leaders who laid

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foundation for better society. But unscrupulous selfseeking politicians emerged and destroyed the
foundation.
They are leaders who only sublime us below
conscious level, leaders who suborn us to failures and
lawlessness, leaders who cannot substantiate their
emergence in leadership with clear evidence,
bastardized the structures of leadership build by our
founding fathers, leaders who are busy stunting our
progressive processes, are these people our true
genius Samuel Taylor Coleridge in one of his books
wrote, if men could learn from history, what
lesson it might teach us`. But passion and party
politics blind our eyes, and the light which we
experience gives us the rays which shine behind us.
When history is created in leadership and success, it
is appropriate to meditate on its general effect to the
society, when such history will be easily forgotten, it
has adverse effect on the aspirations of any peaceful
community. In our society today, we have not learned
from the past. Since the coup of Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966
till date, it has been a history of one failed leader to
another, must we continue in this way?
As a responsible son or daughter who is less
privileged, my utmost task is to pray for my country,
state and locality in every election year. Right from
the days of old, I have been a crusader of total
eradication of the oppressive tendencies of the

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leadership of old, against the youth mandates of

tomorrow. My dreams and aspirations are to see a
genuine intellectual and a more determined troop of
capable youths, with foresight pedaling the boot of
governance of our dear Nation. A genius who is
logical in his approach to strategize on fundamental
issues, a genius who is
rational and evenly
distributing the dividends of democracy, or a genius
who is conscious in assessing the level of
performance. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo came close to
be the genius, but was cut short in actualizing his
performance. The yeaning of the people of Nigerian
grew
stronger
after
Alhaji
Tafawa
Balewa
administration collapsed.
It is not surprising that Nigeria, particularly Northern
Nigeria remain under developed, since the
insurgence of Islamist commanders in the north,
combatant militant in the south south, kidnappers
in the south-east, and ritualist in the south-west and
many other pockets of bloody groups. Many
governors tested leadership and left without
significant impact in their states, all they left behind
are disappointment, failures and frustration marks on
the citizenry. In 1999 Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,
former President of Nigeria came to Power; there was
the insinuation that he might be the true genius. His
emergence brought relieve to the people of Nigeria.
With quality manifestoes, the people looked unto
him, to implement reforms which can change the

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lives of the common men in the Nation. As a peaceful

man, Chief Obasanjo was able to contain the
atmosphere, which stirred up violence and
disorderliness in many state. Is peaceful resolution to
some controversial issues in the country made the
Nation true heartland of the West African Region. In
Chief Obasanjos era, Nigeria was not only the most
peaceful Nation in African but the most habitable
Nation of the Federation of Nations in the world. Chief
Obasanjo used the resources of the Nation for all. But
what are the legacies for the Nation to build on which
his leadership left behind? Take a look at education,
health, power, culture, road, aviation sector, sporting
facilities e.t.c was he able to fit into your dream of a
genius in leadership? Nigeria is in dire need of a
genius as a leader, the political environment of the
society had been traumatized, that without a genius
with unique potentials, the society will continue to
reel on the influence of the corrupt elites. At the
search of a genius, we must be conscious of the fact
that many politicians are jostling for the number one
post, many of this leaders nurtured the believe that
their aspiration are what the Nation need to excel,
while many believe that with their financial
Buoyancy, they can plant themselves as genius in
our leadership even to the detriment of the people,
Nigerians must be careful in collaborating with
leaders with selfish desires.

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To be a genius in leadership or in business you must

posses good and practical idealism, the desire to
correct the ills meted to the masses by past leaders,
and the desire to liberate the Nation from the
continuous grip of self-centered individuals. We
shouldnt first be thinking of our self-satisfaction or
personal enrichment; rather, our utmost priority
should be centered on satisfying, the needs and
yearnings of our people, so that we could make
ourselves most acceptable in the society. At the end,
we need to ask ourselves this question, how many
leaders had grown to the next level of leadership
from their various Local Council Areas, States, and
the Nation at large? You can never be genius when
you are self centered, power monger, and when you
dont have any positive agenda towards the
upliftment of the people. Politicians who fall in this
category can only go miles, always deceiving the
people in believing that they are God sent. They are
oblivious to the fact that, they have nothing to offer
the masses, rather than pride, arrogant, pains and
despair, which have been unconsciously imposed on
the lives of innocent citizens. A genius is a genius,
and can only be born not made.
While dreaming about genius, you must not allow
your conscience to be dampened from its rightful
position. Throughout history we have despotic and
dictatorial leaders crowned with barbaric tendencies
against the youths due to their selfish ambitions.

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These leaders mesmerized their followers financially

to fan the flames of their emotion in order to commit
unspeakable atrocities, ranging from political
assassination to maiming innocent lives and
properties. The principles of freedom and justice,
security of lives and property can be greatly affected
and endangered when their dream of a genius is
tampered with. In some states, politicians who lacked
grass root culture went to churches and mosques to
liaise with leaders to legitimize their claims as God
sent. Even traditional rulers were lured into political
maneuvering in all this, the attributes of a genius
cannot manifest, because the potentials are not inbuilt. Like in many states where maneuvering and
blackmail are the orders of the day, people go
willingly and happily fighting for politicians who are
not genius.
A man, who believes in his dreams, cannot fight for it
to manifest physically. People who fight to actualize
their dreams are those whose values and believes
are molded by the false philosophies of the day.
While some believe that their politicians are superior
to others, and thus deserve to be dominant. Thanks
to almighty God for the lives of Nigerian Citizens,
what a peculiar people? Where unity in diversity
reigns, religious tolerances are guided by the
principles of peace. The youths in some states never
believe that fight is inevitable part of the natural
scheme of things, or some kind of biological

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necessity. Though Social Darwinism fostered the

ideas for example, that fight is a legitimate means of
eradicating those species not worthy to survive.
People in many states of the federation dances
foolishly to the drums of political crises, they forgot
to think of the millions of people, who had died in the
hands of unscrupulous politicians.
Today in Nigeria, people unanimously agreed that
Shame will follow the man who will lure them
against their leaders. The mixture of religion,
tradition and politics by those selfish politicians
cannot induce a single Nigerian to condemn their
leaders. Many politicians had already seen their
aspirations to leadership as unattainable, they now
fashioned instruments or weapons for destruction,
and find their ways into the lives of some barbarians
in the streets in order to use them to cause violence
and destruction on the masses. Nigeria should be a
hospitable and peaceful oriented people, and should
not in any way dance to the drums of mischiefmakers.
The youths in Nigeria should not indulge in crises
that will make the Nation ungovernable and
inhabitable, because this will paralyzed economic
activities and moves the Nation backward. It requires
patience, zealousness, commitment and dedication
to make it real; so all hands must be on deck to
achieve this goal. We must not allow any one to stunt

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or truncate the developmental policies of this

administration led by His Excellency Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan, President and Commander-in-chief of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. We need mass support of
all youths and elders of the Nation for effective
transformation agenda of the Nation, in the shortest
period of time. For many years the progress of the
Nation had been stagnated, but today like the biblical
Jews in the wilderness, Nigeria has finally settled in
the promise land with President Goodluck Jonathan as
the Moses of our generation, what a relief?
With the avalanche of beauties in the new face of the
Nation we can be bold enough to accept our
inheritance. Now that those who struggled in vain to
disrupt Gods ordained leadership had failed, it is
pertinent for youths to rally round the present
leadership and give overwhelming support for it to
excel. Youths had suffered empty promises, vain and
false manifestoes. History is made today with
emergence of a good visionary leader. He is a youth,
full of wisdom, ideas, has the technical capability for
infrastructural development and above all has the
fear of God. What a genius in time like this, time has
gone for empty promises and diversion of funds
meant for hospitals, roads, schools and other public
utilities to few individuals account. President
Goodluck Jonathan meant well for the Nation and
should be given the support to forge ahead. The way
his Federal Executive Council was constituted, it is

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glaring that this present leadership will touch the

lives of every community and clan in Nigeria, given
the desired peace and perfect tranquility. Unlike the
administration, where few individuals held the
Federation at its jugulars, looting us to stupor. Today
the story of Nigeria has changed, we have found our
dream builder and a genius in His Excellency
President Goodluck Jonathan, and therefore many of
us had disagreed with Hogel philosophy on life,
because we have learnt from history. Today, we have
the premonition that our president will take us to our
aspirations, there is indication that he has come to
serve and to serve well. We deserve something far
more dependable than fallible human philosophies of
the past leaders. We must avoid the tragic mistakes
of our past leaders and the crises which rocked the
administration of some Nations. Let us begin now to
think of what will guide us as united entity in order to
attain our aspirations.
We dont have to allow ourselves to be sucked in
conflicts, by people who are desperate to destroy our
destiny. The paramount factor which can guide our
aspirations to its actualization is to live by example
not by emotion, we have casted our votes for
President Goodluck Jonathan to lead us, so let us
protect his leadership from sniffers who will always
do anything possible to frustrate his good
programmes for the Nation. To God be the glory for
the emergence of this genius. In his transformation

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agenda, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan dwell

extensively on his transformation agenda by
establishing good governance, building institutions
and consolidating democracy, looking at Nigeria as a
divine project. Within his few years as President; he
has been able to breath life into the Nigerian Human
Commission by bringing it out from the shadows of
military legacies. He enforced the right to free and
fair elections and promotion of democratic society. He
practicalises freedom of the press and expression,
more importantly he ensures there should be
effective remedies for human right violation.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonethan demonstrated a
high level of ingenuity by promoting the
independence and effectiveness of the legislature by
institutionalizing
independence
of
the
legislature/Executive, the President neither interferes
in the selection of the Presiding Officer of the
National Assembly, nor temper with the legislative
oversight of executive projects. There has been
excellent collaboration between the legislature and
the executive in fiscal responsibility through the
MTEF.
President Jonathan did not face the issue of
corruption lightly. He has been dealing with the
dragon decisively and with the developing
challenges, ensuring fair hearing as the eases roles
in.

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President transformation Agenda met with stiff

opposition from the insurgent (BOKO HARAM) in the
northern part of Nigeria. He is able to adopt new
approaches to fight insecurity by protecting the state
against terrorism and insurgency. The Judiciary was
not left out, as their independence and the integrity
of the administration of justice in Nigeria, with the
National Judicial Commission liaising between the

Judiciary and Government.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan demonstrated a
very high level of pragmatism and charismatic
ingenuity in economic and social performance in the
following areas:- global developments, domestic
developments, job creation, fiscal developments,
monetary sector developments, financial sector
developments, capital market developments, and
external sector developments.
There are basic key reforms and outcomes in the
financial sector, fiscal policy, power sector, Petroleum
sector, ports, aviation, public sector, data generating
process, agriculture, education, health, economic coordination, infrastructure developments and foreign
polices.
The Government of President Jonathan has a very
high score card in governments and cultures; the
National Identity Management System has been put
in place to ensure the true nationality of Nigeria. His

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Government is a Government of accountability in the

public service and the use of public funds. In Foreign
Relations and Economics Diplomacy, the President is
putting Nigeria in the right perspective in ECOWAS,
African Union and the United Nations, and other
bodies, particularly now that our Nation has been
chosen be a member o the Security Council of the
United Nations, this is a big plus for the President.
The President in his transformation agenda thought it
wise that for economic to be sustain, the productive
sector must be look into holistically in the areas of oil
and gas, agriculture, trade and commerce,
manufacturing, solid mineral and metals, water
resources, culture, tourism and entertainment,
science, technology and innovation.
The provision of quality and affordable infrastructure
is the cardinal objective of his transformation
agenda. A number of power generating stations have
been commissioned by the President to boost the
light sector. In the area of transportation, rail
transport has been resuscitated, after seventeen
years of deadness. The sea and inland water ways,
roads and aviation, are all perfectly functioning with
massive innovations going on in these areas. Housing
and
urban
development,
information
and
communication technology have received a boost
and a pad from the President.

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The Private Sector in not left out as it is fully

receiving support for the President Transformation
Agenda, and the outcomes of these supports are
glaringly seen and felt by all, this in because of his
driven zeal to transform the Nation.

CHAPTER III
OUR HOPE
What should the government and business tycoons
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youth poverty and inequality, stop insurgency and

violence, kidnapping, armed robbery, ritualism and
human trafficking so as to build National social
consensus, empowered local economic machinery
and fast track national transformation agenda by
providing
a conceptual youths skills for socioeconomic analysis of youth engagement approaches,
towards enhancing prospects of youth projects and
programmes design for excellent management and
delivery. The government should be able to put in
place strategic planning skills and techniques, create
enabling environment, that oversees communication
system, that will promotes advocacy and youth
management knowledge, management processes
and competencies.
Our hope of a better tomorrow and higher
participation of youths in governance can go along
way by the government allowing the establishment of
youth clubs in schools where young people or peer
groups can meet each other and take part in various
activities that promotes good moral up bringing in an
atmosphere
of genuine cultural and moral
enthusiasm that will further breeds competition,
hardwork, honesty and accountability.
The government should be able to organize
regular leadership training for youths across the
nation by establishing youths centers where youths
meets to receive leadership training in all areas of life

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and to share ideas

that promotes peaceful coexistence among the youths, these centers should
have youths hostels that provides cheap and simple
accommodation and meals. From these centers,
talents can be discovered that will be used for the
economic and political growth of the nation.
Looking at the case of urban distractions, the rural
impoverishment and their gross consequences on
youths development, one may wonder, of what
foundation can youths attain their prospects in life.
Actually youths have long been isolated in this
society, where decisions of personal gains took
precedent rather than the collective interest of the
masses and this forced the past leaders to lay
foundation, which affected the development of
youths. They deliberately conditioned the youths in
vicious circle of imperialistic tendencies for decades
because; they lacked visions of laying good legacies.
The precarious situation, which youth found
themselves, have made them to remain underdeveloped, because there was no legacy to build on.
Our past leaders only implemented reforms which
wrestled with the welfare of the society. While we are
busy reducing our trousers and skirts everyday, they
were busy buying new ones, because they easily
outgrown the ones they had.
Since the inception of democracy there has not been
any that had raised the hope of the citizenry than

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this present youths leadership. The foundation of our

hope has now been laid. Today our destiny has been
positioned for us to drive into a blissful future.
Today, our hope for tomorrow is to start planning for
a better future. With good conducts, the youths in
leadership will provide intellectual leadership
expected in the new millennium. To achieve this
legacy of hope, the youths in leadership should avoid
exhibition of gross indiscretion and never should they
mix up selfishness with leadership. They should know
that they are not of the class of yesterday again,
their actions and inactions have grave implication, for
the polity and integrity of the youths in the society.
They should not act like past leaders, who failed to
take into cognizance the salient fact, that they have
youths at hands to develop. As leaders, you need to
arm yourselves with immense moral background to
sustain your character. This will help you withstand
external influence, which suborned past leaders to
failures. With articulated moral background, you can
build in yourselves, visionary policies that can sustain
youths in future
It is not an exaggeration to say time is life; with
a Nation like Nigeria that has celebrated her 52 years
of independence to ensure that almost everything in
life is somehow configured to time. The life of every
youth is structured to last for a specified time,
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the Nation is today in view of youths development, it

gives a strong indication of what we have done to the
development of our youths. The level of socioeconomic, political and religious consciousness we
give our youths today to a large extend determines
where the Nation will be in life tomorrow.
Apart from governance, the youths should be able to
be taught to have business mindset, no longer a
matter of choice but the compelling necessity of life,
these days, that white colar jobs have become a
nightmare following the teaming unemployed
graduate roaming the street of the Nation. We must
strive to derive maximum values from our youths.
This Nation must not waste or misuse our time but
must work very hard to cultivate excellent, hardwork
and honesty in the attitudinal patterns to our youths
to enable us invest our time wisely, prudently and
productively. The result will be peace, rest,
orderliness and timely achievement of youths goals
and visions.
Youths management have become very crucial that
government at all levels, corporations, rich
individuals, consultants and experts in youths
management should be drawn in to shape the youths
mind set. We must properly prioritize the critical
goals and issues that concerns our youths to enable
them achieve success where others might have failed
due to poor management of the youths

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We have seen men like Chief Julius Ama Orji, the

Ochiri Ozuo Eda who as a youth under very harsh
economic
conditions,
unbearable
political
atmosphere, was able to tailor his mind out from
crime and violence but chose the right way of doing
things, he was able to rise to a pinnacle of success by
sheer dint of hardwork and is vehemently bent on
contributing to the Nation and blessing the lives of
others through his experiences, his ordeals, his
challenges and progress especially helping youths to
rise above their limitations and inspire them to
greater heights
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity and
The Federal Ministry of Youth Development must
create new business outfits or ideas that will be
beneficial to the Youths and invite top business
magnets who should come and share their
experiences or introduce their businesses to the
youths to emulates, ideas got from this magnets
would go a long way helping the would be business
youths to stabilize and grow. Without an iota of
doubt, our youths will rapidly develop into a unique
brand that cannot be ignored in all spheres of life.
The National Orientation Agency must intensified
effort in rebranding our Youths by coming up with
giggles, posters and adverts that will remold the
Youths perceptions and aspirations, giving hope to
their dreams. The Federal Ministry of Culture, Tourism
and National Orientation must organized seminars,

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symposiums, and conferences to re-enact our Culture

and Tradition for the Youths to imbibe.
As a youth, you must strive to keep to your moral
principles of good conduct, respects, caring and
loving one another. Self impose discipline should be
your guiding principle that will easily be evaluated by
all. When one believes in himself as a leader of an
immense quality, he doesnt need external pressure
to reform other youths in the society. Now is the time
to develop our future. You as leaders have no reason
to fail. If we fail whom do we blame? You can only
succeed as leaders, when you believe in your ability
to create impact in the society. By creating
employment opportunities for the youths. Assisting
youths in paying WAEC or NECO registrations, pay
bursary and scholarship allowances to youth in
higher institutions. The impacts must be seen in
infrastructural development such as; hospitals,
schools, markets, electricity etc, that will touch the
lives of the youths and the people in general.
Today leadership has changed hand; our hope must
be established in the society, youths took to violence
and crimes, when they lacked hope of survival. The
negligence of our past leaders forced youths to take
arms against their leaders. Look at the cases of Alhaji
Asari-Dokubo, of Movement for the Emancipation of
Niger-Delta, (MEND) Ganiyu Adams of Oduduwa
Peoples Congress (OPC) and Raph Uwazuruike of

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Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of

Biafra (MASSOB) the Boko Harams, these youths are
today fighting because of the negligence of the past
leaders to develop the youths in their various
regions. Their agitations which were misinterpreted
for secession was to see their youths develop today,
for better tomorrow. The involvement of youths in the
crisis of Niger-delta today is, as a result of no good
planning for the development of the youths in the
society. Youths are today enrolling in militant groups,
and oil pipe lines vandals and thieves, because they
are tired of unemployment. The hope and aspirations
of the youths were thwarted, due to insensitivity of
their past leaders who had no ideas on how to plan
for a better future. Today we are in a crime prone
society, trying to lay the foundations that are
supposed to be laid for decades. What a situation?
There is no doubt that youths in the society need
peace and progress. They need quality education and
good condition of living. But how can the youths
survive under a leadership which is bereft of ideas
and moral principles? How can they live in peace,
with leaders who have dislodged them of their
inheritance of better development? Really one can
see that youths suffered restrictions in the past.
Restriction from happiness, restriction from peace,
unity and progress. They were restricted from good
condition of health, good jobs, good market
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God deposited in youths. Infact, they are restricted

from all the glamorous incentives of life, they are not
accessible to their political representatives both State
and National Assemblies. While the past leaders are
growing younger everyday, the youths are growing
older, what an experience? No record of difference
between a youth of thirty to fifty years old or an elite
of sixty to eighty years. So it has become obvious
that, the years youths spent under the leadership of
the old school politicians are far shorter than the
years they will spent in old age. What a great
difference?

There is one thing about life, that nature can never

lie, and no matter how they have redesigned the
youths, their destiny can never die, though it may be
delayed. The destiny of the youths has been restored
today. They had found their ways back to leadership
and one objective they need to accomplish is to build
the society with good foundation about the future.
Our hope has been established, and will be embraced
with joy to the amazement of those who misled us in
the past. Youths should wake up from their slumber,
to denounce those things that fashioned their futures
in the past. They should denounce the use of arms to
achieve their aspirations now that there is room for
dialogue in order to design a better future. How long
shall youths continue to die in arms struggle? You

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must drop the arms and encourage the youths in

leadership, to create room, for proper planning. Hope
should be embraced as the only legacy for better
tomorrow, if youths must excel in life.
At the close of the 20 th century, statistic showed that
about 60% of the Nigerian population is made of
youths. A situation in Nigeria that an average day
nearly 10,000 youths contacts general diseases
through sexual immoralities. Atleast a rape will be
committed within a day, why a murder committed
within a day. Nearly 2,000 would divorce, 3million
watch things not fit for human viewing, 90million can
of Beer will be drunk, and some 2,740 youths will get
pregnant with over 3,200 abortions. Over 3million
smokes cigarettes, Marijuana and even take cocaine.
This is a simple sample of a single nation like Nigeria.
The reason for raising up promising youths as our
hope of tomorrow in a Godly way by both clerics of
the Christian and Muslim religion cannot be over
emphasize because when we fail to raise the youth in
a Godly manners the consequences are enormous.
Many Christian and Muslim parents lament their
youthful waywardness despite their efforts to bring
them up in a Godly way. These religious involvement
and strict monitoring of our youths, our society is
daily worsening as our youths continuously involve
themselves in crime and violence. Parent must learn
to teach true values in our youths. Many parents

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today are confused as to work true values of life are,

hence their inability to inculcate into their children
certain values that can help shape their lifes
positively. When parent fails, youths will be left for
other youths, neighbours, peers, movies and
television to teach them whatever seems good.
Parent must know that the youths will have today are
leaders of tomorrow. Parents must endeavour to
meet the basic needs of their children. These involve
providing of good shelter, cloths, food, education,
moral and spiritual support and availability. Many
pastors and Imams and their workers
of great
commitment suffer a great deal from being victims of
wayward youths as a result of not been available to
ensure they live the example of what they believe
before them, and ensure they lead their youths to
personal faith. The question is when have you as a
parent called a child and one on-one taken time to
preach to him with the hope he or she will come to
the knowledge of salvation.
Parent must be firm in correcting their children, both
the Holy Bible and the Quran spelt out ways and
methods in which children should be discipline in
order to help the youths to imbibe certain Godly
behavioural patterns that will take them to their
mountain tops. Youths as Nation Builders and as our
hope of tomorrow must be given parental brought-up
that will not end until each youths is gainfully
employed, after we have given them basic education,

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Formal and Informal that can help them to be selfindependence.

The youths aspire to have a Nation that profess
solution to the problems of National identity. Youth
should be encouraged to marry outside their ethnic
group. People with different religion should be
encouraged to tolerate each other. More unity
schools should built by Government and rich
individual to encourage youth from different
background to come together and interact with each
other. Tribalism, ethnicism and quta system should
be discouraged. National Youth Service Corps should
be intensified to check a problem of National identity
as Corpers are posted outside their state. National
Cultural and Sport Festivals should be organized in a
rotational manner from Zone to Zone. National
symbols like National Flag, National Anthem and
National Pledge must be practiced and recited by
every youth. All these attempts are towards National
integration.
In conclusion parents are products of the youths.
Genuine Godly upbringing of the youths through true
Biblical and Quranic ways of raising Godly youths
must be taken very seriously because the mantle of
leadership of tomorrow will be passed to them.
Government at all levels, corporations, rich
individuals, parents and religious bodies, consultants
and experts in youth management must put their

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hands on deck to ensure that our youths truly remain

our hope of tomorrow.

CHAPTER IV
YOUTHS AS NATION BUILDERS
There are three factors that evolves in Nation
building
Ability to ascend to leadership as youths
Ability to sustain the leadership
The buildings of structures that sustain a Nation.
Youths who struggle their ways to leadership, need
every youth in the society, to stabilize and to sustain
their positions. The sustenance on the throne cannot
be attained without due support of the youths in the
society. In this regard, it is mandatory for youths to
do everything morally right to support and sustain

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their youthful leaders, who have good intentions for

their growth.
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was successful in his
leadership in Nigeria because he was quick to
recognize where he came from, he was a product of
humility and obedient child to his parents, and so
was able to adhere strictly on the custom and
tradition of his parent. He respects morality and
upheld honour and glory for his dear Nation. He
never deviated from the laid down tenets, no wonder
he has lived a very visionary, discipline and gallant
life his watchwords are accountability, honesty,
transparency and hardwork, and therefore he
received an over whelming support of the youths in
the Nation. At the end of his leadership, there were
legacies on which youths in Nigeria today are
developing their future. In the Federal Republic of
Nigeria today, eighty five percent of the leaders in
the society are youths. Today its the sole
responsibility of youths to rally round their leaders, in
order to sustain them to deliver the dividends of
democracy.
When youths in the society pledges their poor
leadership uncompromising support and loyalty for
their leaders, those who extenuates their poor
leadership qualities before now, will be kept away
from disrupting the good intention of our youthful
leaders. Our roles as youths in the society are to

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peacefully secure this leadership for the future. We

must learn to keep from those overbearing,
insatiable, selfish politicians, who never think of any
think good for the youths. God designed our
liberation from the mental slavery of our old school
politicians, so we can never groan in pains and
anguish again, if we do not allow ourselves to be
used by politicians, who do not have the welfare of
the youths at heart
The building of structures that sustain a Nation
brings to bear Chief. Raymond Kayode Aworinde who
is doing business, touching lives. He is a successful
businessman and the Chief Executive Officer,
Aworinde Investment Limited, Whose Businesses
ranges from Hotels, Night Clubs, Agriculture, Import
and Export, Transportation, Haulage, Real Estate and
General Contractor in Nigeria. He is the Agbaakin of
Ibadan Land. All his projects are geared toward
generating employment, providing services for the
people, preventing Capital Flight and providing
locally produced goods for Nigerians. Aworinde
investments are multi- million Naira Company in
Nigeria and fully involved in Corporate Social
Responsibility activities. Scholarships are being given
to brilliant students from poor background, vocation
training is also offered to teaming youths to take
them off the streets, while giving them meaningful
future. His organization equally makes donations to
Universities and other higher institutions of learning

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across the country to support human Capital

Development. His business helps to create a
prosperous and more equitable world for every
aspiring youth. His advice to Nigeria youths as been
that no Nigerian youth should condemn another, but
should be supportive to neighbors, remain focused
and be hard working, the sky shall be beyond their
limit.
The youths in the society, should know that time has
come, when all should do every thing right to defend
their ascension to leadership in order to enable us
build a strong and verial Nation. We must break away
from politicians, who before now had lured us to exvoto. Time has come, when selfishness should be
extruded in order to embrace, the spirit of harmony,
peace and progress, which are meant for this
generation of youths. Our present grip to leadership
must be protected, if we shall lay legacies, upon
which the foundation of our tomorrow will be built.
Youths, in no less measure, should endeavor to curb
youthful exuberance and should purge their
adulterated minds, to avoid further entanglement
into complications. Those who looted our treasury will
not be happy seeing us, carving out meaningful
means of livelihood for our tomorrow. So we should
beware of such politicians. This is time youths, should
see themselves as builders of tomorrow , this will
enable them shun activities that may mar their social

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disposition, or other things which will easily

complicate their moral values in the society, e.g.
Robbery, corruption, cultism, assassination, and
militancy. Abstinence from drugs and violence will
help to acknowledge the realities of the rascality
which had impeded our development, far beyond our
imaginations.
One-thing youths should write, at the back of their
minds is that, progress cannot be achieved, in a
society that is full of chaos and fracas, peace is the
only element, which generates progress, so youths
must imbibe, in the spirit of peace to achieve
success. With peace, the youths in leadership will be
guided, to give their destiny meaningful direction. No
leadership will succeed, without the support of the
youths. The crises which has in many occasions,
destabilized the progress of many States of the
Federation, may not find its way again in the society,
if youths play their roles effectively.
Now that youth with ideas had emerged in
leadership. There is the tendency of eschewing
rancors and bitterness of mind, but with oneness of
purpose irrespective of religion, political party, state
of origin or language, we should be able to work for
the development of our various localities and society
at large. The society is the inheritance of youths;
therefore they should not allow politically motivated
instability, to undermine the progress. Anti-social

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activities will affect youths development. The

calamitous experiences, which undermined the
progress of many states in the past, should serve as
a deterrent to the youths presently. The youths in
leadership need our support, to uphold the
structures, which shall improve the youths underdevelopment of the past. Youths must unite with the
leaders, to achieve this goal in the society.
We have human rights embedded in our constitution,
such as; freedom of movement, even participation,
freedom of worship, freedom of association, freedom
of religion, freedom of expression etc. today, our
guiding principle is we are leaders of tomorrow
should be with this principle, the efforts of the youths
in leadership will gravitate, the chances of better
tomorrow. With God on our side the present
leadership of youths in Nigeria will take the Nation to
the right place it deserves among other Nations of
the world.
The youths in the society, should understand that,
they will have a difficult task to achieve what they
believe, because those who impeded their
development will try to en-force them to relinquish
their inclination on things, which can generate
success for the youths in leadership. As youths in the
Nation prepare their minds for development,
detractors should be kept at distance. Youths should
master enough courage to curb distraction, because

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it is a weapon for people without hope. Distraction

today may hinder progress tomorrow. Distraction can
also serve as an impediment and retrogressive, to
the foundation of future progress. So all the elements
of distraction should be avoided, in order to harness
democratic values for future development. Recently,
the exploit of some youths in leadership had left
indelible marks on the society, that youths are more
mentally positioned, to give the Nation befitting
developments. Looking at the initiatives of the
youthful Governors in some states and Ministers of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you will believe that
youths have the ability to create, innovate and
fashion out structures for the benefit of the future.
In the petroleum sector, Mrs. Dizeani Allison
Madueke, the Honorable Minister of Petroleum
Resources is using her wealth of experience to add
value to the Nations hydrocarbon resources.
Since her resumption in the Petroleum Ministry, she
swift into action by dealing squarely with the problem
of inadequate fuel supply which has been persistent
years back, she made sure the stable price of the
products in maintained; supervise by the Petroleum
Products Marketing Company (PPMC).
The Minister was able to put in place a credible and
honest crop of PPMC management in February 2011

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till date, no major fuel supply and distribution issues

had been encountered.
The Minister has made it possible that PMS supply to
the Nigeria markets is stable, robust and hitch- free
and available across the Nation at a uniform price.
The years of sleeping in fuel stations looking for fuel
to buy is now a thing of the past.
For effective fuel distribution nationwide, the
following lines were re-commissioned, Kaduna
Suleja lines, Kaduna Kano lines, Suleja Minna
lines, Kaduna Gusau lines, Kaduna Jos lines, Port
Harcourt Aba lines and Warri Benin lines to NNPC
distribution products into their depots, some of these
depots have not worked for over 15years. Since the
Minister came to power, there has been re-action and
rehabilitation of the pipe lines, as they are considered
to be the safest, most efficient, quickest, cost
effective means of distributing products with a
country as large as Nigeria.
Through the help of God, Mrs. Dizeani Allison
Maducke has been able to overcome the harvest of
challenges that are militating against a process of
seamless
fuel
distribution
in
recent
times,
NNPC/PPMC under the leadership of the hard working
Minister, has put in place sales strategy by selling
product as a matter of policy to Independent
Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN),

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major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria as well as

NNPC retail and private depots owners.
The production capacity of these products has
tremendously increased to the meet the yarning of
Nigerians.

In Cross River state, Donald Duke (Former Governor)

uses his youthful experience to transform Obudu
cattle ranch, which is one of the best tourist centers
in West Africa. He established the first castle in
Africa,
promoted
entertainment,
industries,
Agriculture, gave loans to youths to be self employed
and registered students for WAEC in the state. Today
in Cross River state, the Executive Governor, his
Excellency Senator Lyel Imoke has continued on the
Millennium gold of Donald Duke with the opening up
of rural roads across the state, has improved the
unimaginable development done, in Agriculture,
Education, health, Etc. Dr. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa
Ibom state is another personality that has done
beyond human comprehension in the areas of
infrastructure
and
human
development.
(His
landmarks, which are speaking for him) Barr.
Babatunde Fashola (SAN) the Governor of Lagos state
is another youth that has vowed to improve the well
being of his people by his developmental
programmes.
Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela,
the Honorable Minister of Finance and the

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Coordinating Minister for Economy achieved the

highest return on the resources of the Federal
Government and the coordination of fiscal policies
and raising the efficiency of the legislation and
regulation governing the operations of financial
accountability and transparency and the preservation
of practices of public money in the following areas:The co-ordinating Council of Ministry of Finance
was established to coordinate the fiscal policies the
Federal Government and the local governments to
ensure fiscal discipline and in a way balancing the
economy.
Economic and Financial analysis Department was
established.
The Honorable Minister implemented a plan for
the preparation of a medium term budget for 2011
2013 and applying the zero budget by the Council
of Ministers.
Mechanisms for calculating the budgets for the
Federal Universities and colleges were developed.
The provision of adequate housing for the locals
amounting to the tune of four billion Dirham was
given to eight thousand beneficiaries; housing loans
at a total cost of 16 billion Dirham was given to thirty
two thousand beneficiaries, while Government
bears all the expenses and benefits of the loan.

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The foundation of these youthful leaders had made

them remarkable of our generation. It is the role of
the youths in the society to rally round these youthful
leaders, in order to give them the required support to
excel. The youths must be liberated from the
stronghold of our past leaders who mesmerized us
with old-fashioned mentality. Youths in the society
should understand that no leader had ever mobilized
the youths than this present democratic setting. The
integration of youths as Nation builders is a step to
promote youths development. So youths must
uphold this, to m ake their presence felt in the
society.
The Central Bank Governor Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
has demonstrated a high level of integrity and
commitment to service as contained in the Mid-term
Report of the Transformation Agenda in the National
Bureau of 29th may 2013, clearly unveil remarkable
achievements. In the Country Strategy Paper-African
Development, 1st January, 2013, clearly revealed
that the Central Bank of Nigeria has come up with
Capacity Building for Public Private Partnership in
Infrastructure.
Samusi
lamido
made
further
Liberalization and Development of the Foreign
Exchange Market. The Foreign Exchange Market
witnessed unprecedented stability most of which
include the following.

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Unification of exchange rates between the

official and inter-bank markets and resolution of the
multiple currency problems.
Facilitation of greater markets determination of
exchange rates for the naira visa-vis other currencies.
A number of achievements recorded since the
introduction of WDAS, for example- parallel market
appreciation first time in 20years. Convergence of
official and inter-bank rates, thus unifying the two
revision of the Foreign Exchange Manual. Sales of
Foreign Exchange to Bureau -De Change main effort
to gain access Foreign Exchange to small end users,
bridge the supply gap and develop the local BureauDe- Change (BDCS). The Central Bank of Nigeria
under the youthful leadership of Governor, Sanusi
Lamido, Sanusi consolidated the banking sector that
was a course for concern.

Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha even before he

became the Governor of Imo state, he has a low
beginning of a former street hawker, a classroom
teacher who later became a successful business man
and a philanthropist of repute. His activities span the
key areas of Education, Health and Social
Responsibilities and Economic Empowerment. He
founded a non-profit organization. He is more
concern in alleviating the sufferings of poor and
building the youth for a better tomorrow. He used all

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the positions he held ranging from President, Red

Cross Society, President/ Founder, Rochas Foundation
Inc, President Rochas Group of Companies Limited,
Prochancellor, African Bussiness School, and former
Chairman, Board of Nigerian Airspace Management
Agency to greatly influence the behavioural patterns
of the Nigerian Youths. He is down to earth and sees
life as a vapour that appears and vanishes away. With
this Philosophy of life, he is bend on putting smiles on
the abandoned, rejected and poverty driven youths
across the Nation. His vision and mission on earth is
to totally eradicate ignorance and hopelessness in
the lives of Nigerian youths. He promotes unity and
National intergration amongst Nigerian youths, he
believes that to erase differences in Religion,
ethnicity and class will be the best practice in
Nigeria. He has put in place massive infrastructural
development in Imo state. He remains the
Commander, Defender and Model of Nigerian youths.
Rochas Okorocha of Imo State who is very
outstanding in his development programmes, is a
youth sent by God to rescue Imo State from the
verge of total collapse and infrastructural decay and
economic shut down.
The Honorable Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Senator Bala A. Mohammed has in no small
measure made proper use of the Department of
Engineering and the Department of survey to
adequately follow the Master Plan that establishes

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the Federal Capital Territory and its environs. He

ensures effective supervision of the Department of
Urban and Regional Planning and Abuja Metropolitan
Management Council that manages and maintains all
FCTA offices, National Monuments, Secretariats
Contributed Immensely to what Abuja is today.
Senator Bala A. Mohammed made sure the
Development Control Abuja Metropolitan Agency
does not compromise with the set standards. There is
Internetwork Connectivity Service between the
Federal Capital to other States of the Federation.
The Nation News Paper of 17 th September 2013
reported that FCTA repatriates 2,000 illegal aliens to
rid the city of criminals, it also stated that in its
determination to boost the tourism profile of Abuja,
the FCTA and the Federal Ministry of Culture, Tourism
and National Orientation have been able to organized
cultural Carnivals.
Abuja Environmental Protection Agency is a playing a
vital role in the protection of our environment in all
spheres of life.
On September 16, 2013, his administration restates
plans to make Abuja among top 20 capital cities in
the world. 20th June, 2013. Federal Capital Territory
Administration won over 70 court cases in 2012.
Abuja Rail Mass transit project Phase ll (Lots 1and3)
22% 25.57% and the project has since commenced,

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200 million of infrastructures cost $1.6 running

simultaneously.
More roads are being opened; more schools are
established to contain the ever increasing population
within the territory. Acquisitions centers are built to
solve the issue of unemployment faced by youths, at
the end of each training the youths are empowered
financially.
The youths in the society should appreciate God who
made it possible for these ones who have been
tested, by using their verse knowledge to
exterminate the notion, that youths are incompetent,
when it comes to leadership, their fresh mental
disposition, created light to the generation of youths.
With them, youths are beginning to realize that, they
have sold their conscience and destiny in the past to
evil merchants in politics. The emergence of these
hard working governors is another blessing to the
youths in the society. With them youths can retrieve
their conscience and destiny, from the hands of
those, who oppressed them previously. With good
conscience, youths in the states will do everything
morally right to sustain these youthful leaders, in
order to create legacies, on which the future of the
youths will be built.
The Minster of Culture, Tourism and National
Orientation, Chief- Edem Duke has been able to
positioned the Ministry and the country in the global

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map of Countries that earn revenue from source

apart from oil. The Nigerian Tourism Development
Corporation with it Parastatals such an NTDC,
National Council for Arts and Culture, National Troupe
and the National Gallery of Arts to mention a few
have shown that Nigeria like other countries, can
earn huge revenue from marketing Tourism, Arts and
Culture.
The Minister has created enabling environment for
Tourism to thrive. It is currently looking into the
Master Plan that promoted support for the Nations
Tourism Outfits such as Tinapa Business Leisure and
Conference Resort in Cross River State and Olokola
Cultural Resort in Odon State. The Ministry has not
relented in its efforts to preserve the Nations
Collective Cultural Heritage and to use our Culture to
promote Tourism.
The different departments under the Ministry have
been
contributing
to
the
socio-economic
development in the country. The Ministry is
examining ways to create an understanding and
harmony among the different religious and ethnic
groups
The Ministry has launched Tourism FM and Radio
Station meant to give Tourism the right place in our
economy. The Minister has been rehabilitating the
Museums and Archives nation-wide to effectively
position them as famost Tourism sits for Tourism and

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visitor alike. More importantly, its develop a more

vibrant relationship with UNESCO, European nation,
African union and other development partners for the
advancement of culture and Tourism Nigeria.
A new National Cultural Policy has been
launched as well as the organization of workshops to
implement the policy. Nigeria vision 20:2020, the first
National Implementation Plan 2010-2013 for Culture
and Tourism in achieving results.
In Nigeria, youths should know that among them are
people with selfish aspirations, but the true support
of all the youths will keep this self seekers at bare,
while the supports that were given to these
performing Governors and Ministers, should remain
total and complete. The youths should not conspire
against the present leadership in these states and
the Nation at large. The Nation must be united to
avoid instigation by oppositions. Those who felt they
are disenfranchised should wait to see how far the
leadership would go in turning things around for the
Nation. The surrogates among youths, who always
struggle to lead by all means, should be avoided to
forestall imposition of corrupt and inept leadership in
the Nation. Those political masters, who do
underground calculations to make sure youths
remain in darkness, should be avoided, if youths
must move forward in progress. While youths are
playing their roles, the youths in leadership must

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strife to imbibe in honesty and commitment in

leadership, knowing fully well that youths are out
there in the society, are more prepared to work with
those in the various states , in peace and unity just to
attain the expected goals of the citizenry.

CHAPTER V
Nation Building
The inspired gesture of every youth in the society is
how to break free from abnormalities of life, in order
to embrace a society, which is built around peace,
unity and hope, with right thinking personalities
pedaling the boat of leadership. But when the system
negates this Nation, the society will be clouded with
restiveness, hopelessness and retrogressions, forcing
the lives of the youths to dwell in failures and
disappointment. Yes the future of any youths in such
society bleaks when the leadership is bereft of ideas
and policies, which can sustain youths for better
tomorrow. I will continually draw our attributes to the
excellent performance of youths in the likes of the
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and some
`Governors as a clear manifestation of how creative
youths can be in leadership. This has shown that our
creative and perspective minds are previously tied
down and flustered by leaders, who only wanted us
to constitute nuisance to the society. The youths
today are standing up to reprobate the self-styled

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system of old school politicians. With the emergence

of youths in leadership, the youths today have so
much to celebrate for.
The Transformation of Agenda of President Goodluck
Jonathan is a wonderful testimony of itself that
always reminds us of the potentials that God has
imbedded on the youths. We are living witnesses of
the President testimonies of his humbled background,
how he tied his fate and believe in God. As a youths
he was very cautious of the deviating tendencies that
are alien and inimical to our society that have
corrupted many youths. He was focused, not minding
the harsh environmental, economical, political and
poverty driven atmosphere that was unbearably
intolerable, but tailored his mind to succeed in life.
Some of our able Governors and performing Ministers
have arrived as other dynamic leaders who will not
only serve as torch lights, but also as advocates of
their generation. Anyone who has traveled to their
states since the ascension of democracy in Nigeria,
would have seen the speedy transformation of the
states as testimonies of their efficiency and equity in
leadership. These able Governors have put down
undisputable developments that eyes can see and
hands can feel.
Today people can have access to pipe borne water
right in front of their houses. The educational sector
is not left behind, they have restructured the

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educational system in their states, the education

system in states is a thing of joy because, in every
community there are schools with good facilities that
makes studying conducive, some Governors have
free education at all levels. Unlike previously, where
nails tore school uniforms of pupils everyday.
One thing to note is that Nigeria is in Gods hand. No
individual or group of individuals can disorganize the
plans of God for the Nation. Those who want to
instigate fighting in the Nation, using their State
Houses of Assemblies or the National Assembly to
destabilize constituted authority or those who may
think that barbaric method of fighting through the
provocation of youths should watch out because, the
youths in the Nigeria are more matured and well
organized to know their aspirations and how to
actualize them. The youths in Nigeria, should know
that politics is a game, at the same time; they should
believe that any game that is devoid of their
collective interest cannot work. Our youths have
come to understand that some politicians are
masters of deceit and vain philosophers as well as
brilliant satanic orators. The youths in Nigeria should
be aware of the strategies of the detractors, to
disrupt any good leadership in the Nation. But one
assurance is that, the entire youths in the Nigeria are
well informed and have been prepared in their minds,
because they understand the agitations of false
philosophers to be completely fallacies and selfish

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oriented. What can they now tell u0s with the

splendid performance of the present leadership of
the Nation, No politician, no philosopher can turn any
youth in Nigeria against the present constituted
authority.
Youths in Nigeria must be warned not to take any
false agitation that can create unnecessary tension,
tantamount to raising the emotions of the people,
against their leaders. The youths believe that
democracy and its dividends in Nigeria must be
protected. We must refuse to be disenchanted.
Every youth must understand the fact that the
foundation laid today will be sustained tomorrow.
With this in minds of the youths, they must never
allow those who feed on crises to continue subverting
their sense of reasoning. No youth is ready to be
drawn to crises, just to satisfy the curiosity of a
certain man.
The concept of the youths in Nigeria should be on
things, which will gravitate the Buildings of the
Nation to grater height. So the false philosophers
should stand aside to watch the present leaders build
accommodating and hospitable Nation for all.
We all have realized that man dominates man to his
own advantage. So all the false agitations on the
youths cannot derail their moral values again in the
society. Youths in Nigerian must understand that,

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history is very significant and they must learn from it.

George-Hogel in one of his books said that, National
government has never learnt anything from history,
or act upon any lesson they might have drawn from
it. Actually, many states of the Federation today are
victims of history; they have never learnt any lesson
from history of bad leaders. That is why they clamor
for leaders, whom they even know are incompetent
to take them to their aspirations. Thank God for the
good will of the youths in some states of the
Federation. They are youths with articulate minds in
choosing leaders. They are youths who refused to be
misguided in their thoughts and actions. They are
youths who refused to be hurried to fanaticism and
political struggle, they believed in one principle of
being leaders of tomorrow. Today, youths in Nigeria
refuse to be blinded with passion, for a course that is
retrogressive. They should always make the best
choices during elections.
The decision of the youths to support our leaders
today will be of immense benefit to our aspirations,
and cannot be preyed by the ever shifting theories of
men, which have brought pains and misery to many
states. The youths in Nigeria should in totality refuse
to fall prey to the political antics of imposters. We the
youths should always opt for good leaders who are
with simplicity of nature, God fearing , priceless, not
arrogant or power drunk, but must be peaceful

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gentlemen or ladies with the potentials to take us to

where we rightfully belong.
Like the biblical injunction of Ecclesiastes. There is
time for everything under the sun. Time to live and
time to die, time to work and time to eat. Time to
destroy and time to build, looking from this Bible
injunction; one may understand that now is the
appropriate time to build. Our leaders had in the past
destroyed all our developmental structures, because
of short sightedness, but today our match to a new
Nigeria; we can start building structures that will
sustain our future.
For any leadership to build a vibrant society, the
future of the youths must be prioritized as No. 1
agenda in their programmes, many leaders have
failed because they never consider the future of the
youths as an obligation, their leadership owed to the
society. Today, if we must build a strong Nation which
will effect the lives of the masses, we must know how
to organize the youths because there will be
repeated pressures from detractors which will always
pressurize the youths to relinquish their full support
for a legitimate government, to pave way for leaders
who will only come to rub and stain oil on their
shoulders.
A society which intends to progress, must learn how
to curb the activities of detractors among the youths.
One important thing for youths in Nigeria to know is

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that those blind leaders with expired ideas, had

devastated our progressive initiatives, are still
interested to rule us again. They are still working
very hard to get back to leadership. They are striving
to frustrate all our youth leaders progressive
programmes, using the press and media channels to
criticize those we place on our leadership with stolen
wealth. Haven failed in their attempts to subvert our
positions on the leadership of the Nation, they used
most of our youths to seek for nullification of election
of the leaders we elected. Haven failed judicially,
they are raising personalities, who are working
among the youths and their associations to
disorganize our unified aspirations in order to pave
way for their masters interest. Youths must be ware
of these personalities, with their nefarious ambitions.
The youths in the Nigeria should know that, to build a
strong Nation requires their pivotal roles to maintain
peace and order. We must know that pressures of
those past politicians and their aspirations stain the
credibility of their efficiency in leadership. To build a
strong Nation, youths must not allow detractors
among them to have their way, because they have
been used in the past to exploit our future. They
must be impelled not to exhaust their energy trying
to seek their ways back to us. Youths must be
prepared to extirpate all the social evils, which the
detractors deposited on us before.

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For a Nation that need stability in its leadership, the

youths there, must learn how to extol their leaders in
high esteem, than to dance foolishly to the tunes of
oppositions. We will not allow leaders who never
meant well for the youths to rule us again, we can
only succeed in the society if we are ready to extinct
all antiquated leadership structures of the past,
which in many ways had hindered our development
as youths.
This administration under President Goodluck
Jonathan has the vision and technical capability, to
launch the youths to a glorious future, so lets
support him. With his strategic interest in the welfare
of the youths, he constituted 85% of his cabinet with
youths, who have integrity and mandate to lift the
Nation up. The 35% women full of ideas and visions.
The Nation will reach its position in the wheel of
progress, like other Nations of the world. Negligence,
frustration, joblessness, and poverty will no longer be
the bane of the youths again. The youths should
know that, their hands are no longer tied in those
things, which subverted their relevance in the
society.
Youths are now empowered to know the cardinal
roles they play in leadership, this will go a long way
to build the confidence the masses repose on them.
The roles we play today, will display our capabilities
tomorrow, if entrusted with more leadership

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assignments, even at the National level. We should

remember that the old politicians whom we wrestled
the leadership position from their hands, are keen
watching us, so its time we prove to them that we are
mature enough to control our lives. We must prove to
them that indeed they failed us in our aspirations.
Lets begin now to sensitize the society, on how
effective we can manage our rights and privileges in
governance, which had suffered restrictions for long?
We must understand that leadership in democracy is
not by proxy, but by active participation of all and
sundry as youths. Our ability to protect the interest of
our leaders in our domain is what the leadership
needs to excel .interactions, which can hinder the
progress of the society, should be completely
avoided.
Those
who
are
aligned
to
self
aggrandizement, who always misapply their energy
seeking for objects, which can create crises in society
should be avoided. as the youths take up
responsibility of building strong Nation, it is vital to
realize the height of violation which will befall our
collective interest if we betray the confidence
reposed on us by the society. The Hon. Minister of
Information and the Hon. Minister of Youths and
Sports had severally cried out for youths to drop
arms and violence and take up responsibilities that
will build and promote a better Nigeria.
The study of the youths as human beings shows that
in every society, certain youths must perceive that

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leaders violates their social rights as individuals or

groups. Yes as a youth, one is entitled to his
agitation, but how proper is the conduct of such
agitation carried out, is it violently? It should always
be channeled to the appropriate authority for proper
consideration. Flaring up violence cannot build a
strong Nation. So youths are mandated, to conduct
themselves morally in the society.
The Niger Delta Development Commission under Dr.
Mrs. Christy Atako the acting Managing Director has
done so much beyond human expectation. Under her
tenure she acquired one hundred jeeps with modern
communication gadgets and gave to the police in the
nine states of Niger Delta Development Commission,
also acquired one hundred tractors and shared
among the state under its command to improve
security and both Agriculture respectively. The
commission donated eight hundred and eighty
computers and printers to four polytechnics in the
region. Computers and Mosquitoes nets have been
distributed to schools in the region, two hundred
computer sets and one hundred and twenty
computer accessories donated to each of the
polytechnics and colleges of education in the region.
They also shared fourty Fire trucks to the nine states
of the region. Apart from these NDDC has executed a
number of projects on each of the states under its
operation. In Ondo State , has executed project
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in various parts of Ondo State, mostly in riverine Ilaje

and Ese Ondo local government area, which are the
core mandate area of the commission.
NNDC inaugurated 20 projects in cross river state
and has commissioned a number of them. These
projects
include
Roads,
Classroom
blocks,
Electrification and Solar powered water supply to
improve the living condition of the people who have
suffered for a very long time
In Abia a number of projects have been
commissioned particularly roads, also twenty
thousand gallon capacity water scheme was
established in Asa, Ukwa west local government
areas and donated science equipment to thirteen
primary school, eighteen secondary school and four
tertiary institutions. Eighty solar power street light in
Umuoria in Ukwa west has been also commissioned.
In Akwa-Ibom state through the able leadership of
Mrs. Chrity Atako, the NDDC in conjunction with
Exxon Mobil collaborated together to fast track the
completion of Eket Ibano road and a number of
other roads have been executed and some are on
going amounting to billions of naira. A number of
other projects were flag on, many ranging from
electrification; solar powered street lights, solar
powered water system etc have been commissioned.
The same story goes on and on with state like Delta,

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Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Imo, north central, north east

and north west
Historically, Nigerian youths are such wonderful and
meaningful in their perception and organization in all
spheres of life that is why it is a welcome
development to enthrone youths in all offices. The
fact that some politicians have amassed wealth by
looting of our treasury does not confer on them,
some celestial nature of infallibility. We should begin
to see them as human beings like us, so rather than
them, flexing muscles trying to lure us to
complications, we welcome them to a vibrant Nation
which will accommodate all, irrespective of ones
status in life, with the good conscience of the youths,
we have privilege over those things which had pulled
us downward in the past. Lets abhor criticism and
embrace companionship, to give the Nation
enormous support the leaders required to perform.
We must join the leaders
to build a state where
success will no longer be about, fraud, treachery, and
deception but a Nation where success can be
attained through vision, planning, hope and hard
work. We can only excel when we curb criticism. The
new face of Nigeria project is for all, so lets give it a
chance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Rev.Sunday Egiga Ayuk, hail from Boki, Cross River

State of Nigeria. former HOD, Theatre Arts, Cross
River State College of Education, the General
Overseer of Divine Ambassadors Ministry intl.
Presently he lectures with the Universities of Abuja
and Lafia.He has B.A in Theatre Arts, Unijos, M.A in
Arts
Administration,
Unical,
PhD
in
Arts
Administration, Unibadan.He has written
a number
books such as The Great Lunching The Mirror of
War Daily Prayer Guide, Drama Minor, Glossary
of Literary Terms, Making the Impacts of the
Management of Community Theater Meaningful to
the People, Issues and Problems of Dramatic Art,
It is Finished and has contributed several chapters in
other books and Journals

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