A TIMELY MESSAGE FROM TOSIN EMMANUEL AJIBARE (GOLD), FACE OF EKITI YOUTHS SOCIO-POLITICAL REVOLUTION
DEAR YOUTHS,
Being a youth in this part of the world is not a comfortable existence, it means being part of the company of the bruised, the battered and the scarred. Being a youth around here means trying to smile when you want to cry, it means trying to hold on to physical life amidst psychological death. It means having your legs cut off and then condemned for being a cripple, it means being harried by day and haunted by night by a nagging sense of nobody-ness and constantly fighting to be saved from the poison of bitterness. It means the ache and anguish of living in so many situations where hopes unborn have died.
Our dilemma is serious and our handicaps are real but yet the performance of our lives must go on, and without self-pity or surrender we must march on, unfaltering, unshaken fearless even in the face of the most hostile situation. We will be greatly misled if we feel that the problem will work itself out, structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting. If history teaches anything, it is that evil is recalcitrant and determined and never voluntarily relinquishes its hold.
Evil must be attacked by a counteracting persistence, by the day to day battering rams of justice. We must get rid of the false notion that there is some miraculous quality in the flow of time that inevitably heals all evil, there is only one thing certain about time and that is that, it waits for no one. If it is not used constructively, it passes you by.
In this generation the children of darkness are still shrewder than the children of light. They are always zealous and conscientious in using time for their evil purposes, they do not wait or delay at all in implementing selfish policies, they use their time to spend big money vainly, to disseminate half-truths, to confuse the popular mind, but the forces of light casually wait, patiently pray and timidly act and so we end up with double destruction: the destructive violence of the bad people and the destructive silence of the good people we must choose where we belong.
One of the most serious effects of the youth’s damaged ego has been his frequent loss of respect for himself and other youths, he ends up with an ambivalence and animosity towards his own kind. Too many youths are fighting and antagonizing each other. The pharaohs had a favorite and effective strategy to keep their slaves in bondage: keep them fighting amongst themselves. The divide and rule technique has been a potent weapon in the arsenal of oppression but when the slaves unite, the red sea of history opens and the Egypt of slavery crumbles.
Finally, the revolution we have long awaited is here, God has stirred up the hearts of the youths and, we are rising against the existing norm that have gifted us nothing but poverty, unemployment, low standard of living, and many more just to mention but a few.
The train is moving fast and because this is a Divine Agenda coming from the youths, it is therefore expedient that you are involved and not left out. Get up! Stand up! Be a part of the story of glory! It is our only way our of poverty. The time is now!
We youths are the leaders of today and as such, we are better than being political thugs to those who have no value for us than to use and dump us. Remember, "youths must live and not just exist, our parents must enjoy and not endure life". We must not trade our destinies with stipends that cannot sustain us for a day on election days anymore. To live is a right, not a choice!
Support us as we challenge the existing political structures at the poll come July 14th 2018. It is a win for our generation and generations yet unborn...
Yours in Revolution,
TOSIN AJIBARE (GOLD)
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