Revolution of Kwara Youths in politics

by Sambo Muritala Esq. Of Sambo Muritala & Co. Activist Chambers

Progress does not lie in the ex­pe­ri­ence of an old man who had solved sev­eral prob­lems of the world in the dis­tant past as his wits mostly re­side in the past. Every new day breathes out fresh­ness to the world: it brings new op­por­tu­ni­ties which may not be eas­ily dis­cerned with the an­cient ori­en­ta­tion, and it is only ideal that only fresh so­lu­tions are ap­plied to fresh prob­lems with a com­plete re­sis­tance to the old or­ders. Since no na­tion wishes to re­lo­cate to the past, only youths can ap­pre­ci­ate this mo­ment be­cause they are the prod­uct of the fresh rev­o­lu­tion.

I heard a knock at my of­fice door at the early hour of Sat­ur­day, 10^th day of April, 2021. I peeped from the win­dow and I saw a beau­ti­ful brown­ish car glit­ter­ing at my sight ac­knowl­edg­ing its new­ness. I could­n’t tell the brand of the car at a glance but it hum­bled my car at its side. Ad­mir­ing this car, I got car­ried away un­til an­other knock re­gained my con­scious­ness and I hur­riedly opened the door. I met a dark, young, cleaned and hand­some man in an ex­pen­sive, sim­ple and ironed Jal­abiyya at my door step. He was in his late teen. He humbly in­tro­duced him­self and we ex­changed com­ple­ments. I led him to the in­ner cham­bers of the of­fice. I sat down and he po­litely sought for my per­mis­sion to sit on the guest’s chair which I

granted be­fore he ended the re­quest. He had ear­lier booked an ap­point­ment with me on Phone two days be­fore. He was re­ferred to me by an old friend from a neigh­bor­ing state. He sought for my le­gal ad­vice re­gard­ing his pro­fes­sion. I know you will want to ask for his pro­fes­sion. He is an in­ter­net war­lord which some peo­ple re­fer to as G-boy. When he re­ferred to him­self as G-boy, I asked; ‘Ya­hooy­a­hoo? He said; that is an ar­chaic name for am­a­teurs in the pro­fes­sion. Wow! He was so proud of the work and he called it ‘Pro­fes­sion. He pre­sented his is­sues and I ad­vised him ac­cord­ingly. At the end of my ses­sion with him, he paid hand­somely well for the le­gal ad­vice I ren­dered. When he was set to go, I po­litely asked him to school me from his pro­fes­sion’s view too. He jok­ingly asked if I am ready to pay and I ac­cepted with amuse­ment. Con­sid­er­ing his age and how he com­ported him­self, I quickly picked the po­si­tion of a stu­dent thirst­ing for knowl­edge. I asked him if his own G-boy car­ries ‘PLUS’. He smiled at ease as a real Don that he is. Only daft and un­skilled am­a­teurs PLUS the Ya­hoo pro­fes­sion. His re­ply forced me to ask him to guide me on how a Pro­fes­sional G-boy ex­cel with­out hav­ing to add PLUS.

He strength­ened his voice in an es­teemed man­ner and sipped the cof­fee he picked from the saucer in his front while I was pa­tient with all my senses. To be­come a pro­fes­sional G-boy, there is need to have a good phone(s), good lap­top with a good Ram and Rom: he said. He stressed the need to de­cide what sex one in­tend to use in run­ning one’s on­line pres­ence and per­sona. He fur­ther ac­knowl­edged the need to have ear­lier cre­ated so­cial me­dia ac­counts with fic­ti­tious pro­files. He fur­ther thought me the use of Cloning App to es­tab­lish and own a brand voice. He an­a­lyzed the use and means of ac­quir­ing for­eign num­ber if the in­ten­tion is to act as a for­eigner since Nige­ri­ans have been black­listed from most of the dat­ing sites. He em­pha­sized the need to down­load a soft­ware called ‘Gam­marly’ to jus­tify the choice of coun­try, the dic­tions, the way and the styles of writ­ing of the cho­sen coun­try. The app is a word cor­rec­tion checks. He de­fined Ma­gas as vic­tims of in­ter­net fraud and how they can be man­aged to gain their trusts. I stopped him when his analy­sis on Wire-wire is be­com­ing in­ter­est­ingly tempt­ing. Thank God that I am fixed in what I do. Af­ter the lec­ture, I es­corted him to his car as a stu­dent will do to his teacher. What is the mean­ing of “cashout’: I quickly asked when he was about to en­ter his car. He humbly and qui­etly said; could you be­lieve me if I say I have been chat­ing with about three Ma­gas while I was in meet­ing with you? I don’t; I re­sponded. One of them has just paid sir: he re­li­ably con­fessed. All things be­ing equal, if mul­ti­task­ing, cy­ber skills and trust build­ing among other demon­strated skills pro­jected by this young man, is well cul­tured and shaped for  in­ter­na­tional re­la­tion and diplo­macy, with such po­ten­tials Nige­ria will win deals of higher value.

The old peo­ple in power are yet to iden­tify the ra­tio­nale be­hind ab­duc­tion of sec­ondary school chil­dren by ter­ror­ists. No child wants to rest while their mates are at work, they don’t quit while find­ing so­lu­tion to tasks and they don’t give up on any task, only na­ture forces them to sleep. It takes an ex­tra ef­fort for a sol­dier of fifty years to shoot a ter­ror­ist of his chil­dren’s age in a war­front while chil­dren will kill their fam­i­lies for pas­sion if trained in such di­rec­tion. I am sure the ab­ducted chi­bok girls are now pro­fes­sional in what the ter­ror­ists trained them for and you can’t find their match among their con­tem­po­raries who were re­leased.

If sec­ondary school chil­dren have been ab­ducted to be trained for at­tacks, what have we been do­ing to train their con­tem­po­raries for de­fense? Aja Iwoyi lomo Eworo Iwoyi le (only the new dog of the mo­ment can hunt the rab­bit of the mo­ment. Time and prac­tice have proven that age is an ev­i­dence of be­ing spent and the wis­dom of Solomon has been ad­judged ob­so­lete. The time is now for youths to take over the ba­tons of lead­er­ship if the world must be at peace,

Kwara is a very good ex­am­ple of the pos­i­tive im­pact of youths in pol­i­tics, we are for­tu­nate that the in­cum­bent gov­ern­ment has a soft spot for youth and that has been demon­strated in his ap­point­ment of youths as po­lit­i­cal of­fice hold­ers. The most pa­thetic part of it all is that youths are also the ones chal­leng­ing the ap­point­ment of youths as lead­ers in kwara state.

They ques­tion the ap­point­ments of grad­u­ates when law re­quires a mere ev­i­dence of at­ten­dance of sec­ondary school or its equiv­a­lent for the pres­i­dent of the coun­try and also ques­tion the ex­pe­ri­ence of youths who were given op­por­tu­nity to show­case their hid­den skills, as if the ex­pe­ri­ences of the old mat­ter more in the gen­er­a­tion we find our­selves. The ef­forts put in place by kolo is telling in the cur­rent sport fes­ti­val at the mo­ment when she is no longer in the of­fice. The won­der­ful leg­isla­tive ac­tivism of the cur­rent speaker of kwara state house of as­sem­bly who is a youth is ex­cel­lent and un­prece­dented.

The im­pact of So­lace as a spe­cial as­sis­tance on New Me­dia is mag­i­cal to the ex­tent that one be­gins to won­der if he is ac­tu­ally do­ing any other thing aside his du­ties as a new me­dia man as me­dia spoil­ers have been brought to their knees.

Some­times I ques­tion the mag­i­cal strength of my pre­cious friend; Kay­ode Oyin Zubair on how he man­age to mul­ti­ply him­self to pro­ject com­mu­nal com­mit­ment to the peo­ple of kwara state. The qual­i­ta­tive con­cept of Qowiyu is rear among his con­tem­po­raries.

Alakawa as a strate­gist and as po­lit­i­cal man­ager is gin­ger­ing the po­lit­i­cal space. Up till this very mo­ment, none has been able to pro­ject the like of Chief Press Sec­re­tary to this gov­er­nor up till this very mo­ment in terms of com­pe­tency, sin­cer­ity, ho­li­ness and mod­esty. He is a rev­o­lu­tion to the sta­tus quo of hav­ing to be a good ma­nip­u­la­tor and liar to de­fend a good gov­ern­ment.

What about the su­perb skills and styles of Jumoke as a Prin­ci­pal Pri­vate Sec­re­tary to the kwara state gov­er­nor in fos­ter­ing co­or­di­na­tion and man­age­ment of both gov­er­nor and other po­lit­i­cal of­fice hold­ers? Won­der­ful, I say. These com­mit­ted youths and host of their likes in the gov­ern­ment of Mal­lam Ab­dul­ra­man Ab­dul­razaq con­sti­tute a team who are ex­per­i­ment­ing what this coun­try is miss­ing while bench­ing youths for the old and used politi­cians. I am sure, the like of Kaowthar, Se­nior, Ma­grt of Edu and Maryam of Pategi will jus­tify their ap­point­ments like their pre­de­ces­sors to rub­bish their crit­ics.

Fi­nally, I am tak­ing this op­por­tu­nity to no­tify the whole world that kwara state is al­ready in the fu­ture they are spec­u­lat­ing and in no time, the ex­pected div­i­dends of our ac­tion will catch up with us soon. As for the youths who are moody to this de­vel­op­ment, my ad­vice is for them to ac­cept to be friends to these few cho­sen youths and in no time, their times will catch up with them.

Sambo Mu­ri­tala Esq.