“Tag Along”: Nigerian Youths Only Interested In Being PAs – Sowore

In light of the swearing-in of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of Nigerian youths to politics.

Faye was sworn in in Dakar on Tuesday, an event attended by several African leaders and while this has raised hopes and served as a great example for other African countries to follow, Sowore shared his view saying Nigerian youths are only scheming to become personal assistants to governors and other leaders.

In an interview on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today. The AAC presidential candidate said, “Our young people are concerned with doing what I call tag along. They are more interested in becoming special assistants to governors or senators,” “I have not seen that clear aspiration on the part of our young people to become leaders.”

Sowore who spoke from New Jersey in the United States (USA), said Nigerian youths need to become more daring in politics to replicate what happened in Senegal.

“You cannot be young, mission-driven, and a visionary and go and hide your bushel under some of these old people who have no idea of how to even operate a phone,” Sowore said.

“Youthfulness is also important in the sense that you need leaders that are alert and capable and responsive and do not have to spend half of the time in the hospital,” the AAC flagbearer said.

Sowore said the youths need to “take power” and not wait for any law to make that happen.

“You take power,” he said. “Nobody should give power to you by any constitutional amendment or law”.