I live in a country of about one hundred and eighty six million as of 2016, a country where a vast percentage of the legal voting aged adults (myself inclusive) prefer not to vote, yet we blame bad governance.

We are E-warriors but cowards in reality. We cower at the mere sight if trouble and decide to leave our faith to chance in hope of a lesser of the two evils will emerge, but is there really a lesser of the two evils?

This is not a political article, it is the the truth and a wake up call!

Being a future leader

Remember how Nelson Mandela fought to make South Africa great? Remember the actions of Martin Luther King Jnr who fought for what he believed in till it was achieved? When you think Africa, you think South Africa, this would not have been possible if not for the effort of Nelson.

The mentality of leadership being attached to age is a wrong one, an older person does not make you wiser or better, sometimes the corrupt ones might be the older ones. There is an African proverb which states that...

In other to move, the Horse at the front looks at the back looks to the one at the front for direction

Sadly in this part of the world, those at the front are not the kind of people you would want to emulate, because the so called leaders deserve to be schooled in the art of true leadership. But wait a minute, is it totally the fault of the leaders?

How do we explain a situation when two cups of rice and salt is all it takes to buy your votes? How do you explain a scenario when those who are supposed to train for leadership are given guns to terrorize others from voting a candidate of their choice? A scenario where the young butchers the young for the old.

What happens when you either vote their choice or don't vote at all, that is the situation we have found ourselves. You think you know war, try the general elections.

The most embarrassing thing is when you hear the electoral body announcing that millions of people didn't vote yet nobody asks why.

Instead of credibility, elections tow an ethno religious line, you are qualified if you are my kin's man and you are a gaijin if you are not from my tribe nor share my religious beliefs.

So many zealots can die for the man, but not his portfolio. We have been promised constant power supply, but yet, importation of generating sets is at an all time high.

How can we thread the path of good water supply when the best a poor man can get is water in a sachet. How can the educational system be top notch when even the minister for education's children did not school in the country, how can we expect three square meals when the minister for Agriculture knows nothing about his office.

The future leaders from this part of the world are more concerned about the next lady they will have intercourse with, they are more concerned with the next tattoo they will draw to resemble their celebrity idol, they are more concerned with the substance they will abuse at a party.

We wonder why we are in darkness when the Electrical engineers have no practical knowledge of what their field entails, we are a third world nation because we term unexplained science as voodoo even in this century.

We live in the part of the world where blaming is cheaper than taking actual actions, where it has to be someone else's fault in the village for our mishaps.

Politicians can fool us with the notion of doing heaven and earth once elected, but we the future leaders never stop to ask why the so called leaders need to be elected to make a difference. Anyone can make a difference anywhere or in any position. What you cannot do as an ordinary politician, you cannot do as a president.

We rely on false promises and bribe, we are swayed by threats and thugs, can they kill us all, can they threaten us all, but the problem as always with we the future leaders is not who will bell the cat, rather, it is more of sustainability of the vision. Everyone is worried that they will get laughed at if they make a move.

The older ones have not just resigned themselves to fate, they encourage us to do the same. They crippled our ability to learn and challenge them through strikes, they controlled our ability to humble them by always travelling abroad and the worse part is the law makers whom are supposed to be held accountable have themselves account-able, meaning their accounts are a reflection of their noble intentions.

We live in a world where the vast representation of Africa is a jungle with wild life, a place known as the dark continent, a place, a place where refugees and internally displaced people thrive, but it is not their fault, we the future leaders have sold our rights for two cups of rice and salt and until we can change that, then there is no hope.

Money allocated for constituency is being spent are we are given money for recharge card to subscribe to the data plans of foreign telecommunication firms and watch them flaunt wealth instead of bills.

We wait for the next corrupt politician we can vote who tells us one day we will be ready,but look at the corridors of power and we'll see the same faces, yet we wonder why things are never different.

I am not too young to rule and make a difference, are you?

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