The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore said that Nigerian youths are only interested in being Personal Assistants to the President and governors.
Sowore stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
He also commented on the attitude of young Nigerians to politics after the swearing-in of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president.
It was gathered that Faye was sworn in at an event attended by several African leaders, including Nigeria President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Dakar, yesterday.
Reacting to the development, Sowore said that youths in the country are only scheming to become personal assistants to governors and other leaders.
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He 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.”
“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.
“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.
“You take power. Nobody should give power to you by any constitutional amendment or law.”
