leading to this beautiful meeting that perhaps we just don't understand. the search for answers i like to yours is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we rec, city screener? how can we protect habitats? we can make a difference. why dinners or mental series in global 3000 on dw, and online hello and a warm welcome to the 77 percent. thanks for joining the program for africa youth i wanted to camara and you are welcome. our show this week is a st debate special, and if you follow african politics, you know that nigerian elections a just around the corner on february 25th. nigerians are electing a new president,

president who harry is tapping a site of the 2 terms in office. they are electing new senators and peas and also new governors and leaders in state elections wither and fast protests. in 2020, we saw thousands of young people taking to the street and making their voices hide . the question is, will the voice of their youth bead inflected in the upcoming elections? my colleague flourished shakara spoke to some young voters, politicians, and activists in a st debate in a boucher this week on the 77 percent st debate. when you look at the prosthetic congress that we have presently, now most of them they are up to the emergence is all about need double what you have or says a war. you can't do the never give detail reports of what do you want to bring?

yeah, and based on what they have done, what do we expect to see? because the past actually dictates the future i this week, the 77 percent is in nigeria. capital a boucher and you as electrons are coming up really soon. and if you speak to most nigerians, they'll tell you that these electrons is not going to be business as usual. now, in the past few years now you as experience some toby lead times from the economy to security and able to education. but this time around, it seems like many young people who have a child to decide their own future on the run up to be alexio's. we've heard that about 70 percent of the new voters are between the ages of $18.00 to $34.00. so we are here to find out from young nigerians what they really want from these elections. and i'm going to start with nana, nana you are a 1st time voter. why did you decide to go to the selections?

well, over the elliot. 6 so last election i was 15 and known on 18th. so i think our is the right time for me to vote. and do you think that your voice is grades accounts? not sure. not sure. now in 2015 we saw the nazi young to on movement 2020 we saw and stars. is this a sign that young people are beginning to participate in politics in nigeria? i'm going to come to you. god bless. all right, absolutely. because we got the no 2 young to rome built on in our 2018, but i was signed by the president and we also got electro reforms built on in 2022 . so what it means is that i'm excited that we have a 1st time for our so all the work that we've been put in name is we've got one more 1st armed with us to come in and participate in the process. so i think young people will one, the of course has to be hurt. and for me i believe that this will be an election overdetermined. luckily by young people's participation. k, i c,

are not in your head. do you agree with what god, lester said? yes, i do agree, i feel like in the last decade from till now we have seen a lot of changes and when, how you to react to politics. you know, before i would say like, even i myself was apathetic to the political situation in danger because i believed my voting count. and it didn't matter because whether you voted or not, it was, it was, it wasn't going to matter. and he would come on promise and go away, but i believe right now, our voice matters, like wherever we do matters, what we decide who, who sits on the asset, decide whether an angel would become a global global i say, a global power or not. okay, now grace goes to cabbie room was sanely, because you are very much involved in politics. yes. so why do you think that, why did you think it was important for you as a young person to get involved? you know, as a party member of a d. c. you know, a reason why is that, um,

looking at distributional issues over what is happening today in this country. almost every, tim has been deteriorated. you understand and also you know, the youth, the ad in jim brought up development in an initial you understand. so they are left behind. that is why we plan a trip into the polities in order to prove to destroy leave is the oldest son that we demand juliana. you. we have the potentiality on talon to make this country a bit topless. you understand? because when you look at the kid, the bellman of any nation globe, and it will still use you understand that up live tend to country to greater hot. you understand? that was the reason why will not allow said to be deteriorated by the so called leaders that are unable to provide you understand debir, isaac, this has to have life in this country. okay, so that leads me to my next question,

which is obviously why we are here. what do young people in nigeria really want? and i want you to just give me 1 point, one major point that you think that young people really want. i'll start with you cheating, my nature a at swat as secure nation. the one affordable education, the one of a horror in the education of 6 to him. okay, so i said one point i use that to carry t, okay. i'll go through, you know, setting the youth in our time, and now when it's on employment, to be solved, monty show of employment to be solved. ok. so unemployment is a major issue for you, dapple healthcare out care because i out into the therapy manager at the moment and am a cost a lot. so foot wants be medically, right? and if things don't change rules, many people do, it's a fancy we can easily fix. okay, thank you. so we've had um security. we said we had unemployment healthcare. we once free and fair election. so that's the right candidate will. it might free and

fair elections. all right, god bless. i think the, i've read nigerian youth when a country that works where they can leave all the potential and that they can travel anywhere around the country and not feel they are not welcome. they just want to be included and want a country that is smart, religiously divided. they want a country where i can be in candle and i am, and i'm free to engage and be heard to want in our dra, where they don't need to know who is the head of the civil service agency for the letter to go through the system they just need a contract that works. that's all. okay. a country that works and i also had inclusion there. okay. asia, a revamped educational system in the last i would go back to the last decade again because we have seen dedication. oh, infrastructure and educational seminars, euro is really failing behind. so we need actually change in educational systems

and nigeria educational systems, abram. so what do you think lined your as want to me? i think that the, the most important thing we need to ask you to in this country is engagement. we need a functional system, they'll carry every one. i'll give every one. it's a new sense of belonging in the country because if you look at nigeria, you find out that the countries divided the northern and saw them. but of ninja day, stats, mistrust, and fiction between the north and southern part of the country. so in this synergy to feel that we are on the right track. so we need a functional system. okay. i'm going to come to you because the, i, but i'm changing the question. now you're very involved with our politics. you helped to train to encourage young people to participate in basically in the country on to be more patriotic. do you think that we are there yet? like 2 young people finally have a c or cow or they are ready to finally make a decision for the country. ok, yes,

we actually have the number. but i wouldn't see we're there yet. 70 percent of the population of nigerians i use. yet when it comes to political participation, you can count the number. let's talk about the answers. if we did with the answers, you saw that if you'd compare the number of people who came out to rally, it is a very small, very minute compared to the team in number of youths that we have. so i would say yes, there are a lot of walls who are willing to go out there and change the narrative. and yet there are so many who are yet to understand the office of the citizen. to understand the up, the, our rules, the rules. it's an every you'd nits to please it change in the narrative. so we are not there yet. we still have a longer integral. ok, so you talk about political participation. so i guess this best begs the question, though, do nigerian youth believe in elections?

do a lecture, i was actually work, i'm going to come to you dapple. i think for him, it's far from saying it walks and classical examples what happened, fame sus, to most offences. delsey an election in lagers, and it's when i was 9 percent. rad won't have thought that with vegetation with ancestry could come out of within must we didn't see that happen. so do elections really walk, ran out there with the recent developments and laws that have been put in place. it looks like my better next year. and if it does go well, then he would make more people want to come out on foot t the my do you have a do you think that election in nigeria work? of course i like the shows and nigeria walk out really well because this is an institution. we already have him because we're, we use the process to a lot of bringing our leaders. but so far, the 7 years of if you see, you cannot text me, the amended the lecture at that you can vote on your vote. we count ok. thank you.

my, you mention the apc will come back to that, but i want to come to you now. do you think that elect shows work? i mean, your 1st time vote are, this is your 1st i'm going to the post you actually believe in the process. well, sincerely out, say we, it's the election. did it like sharing system in the country? is a working process for me. i think this time to work, even if it isn't, it doesn't work in the past. i think we have another pertaining to now to make it work. okay, so we are getting mixed opinions here. what i want to find out from you guys apart from the lecture is obviously there has to be a way that's nigerians hold the alley does are countable. how can nigerians, how can we, as nigerians hold our lead, as a county will. and actually it's come to you, brian, because you i policy shannon, they potentially delve nigeria. so how can we hold you accountable when you're in office? well, and i'll let to start by saying there's never been a time like this in the history of this country. i believe if the leaders miss tod,

do you know what to expect from the people? because the youth's, ah, tired of the, for the food economy insecurity. all kind of it thinks we're tired of it. so if i happen to be the president of the federal republic of nigeria, i believe i'll make the people as the center of my governess. okay, what we've all your promises, how do we hold you accountable? so i'll be accountable to whatsoever i promise to do. i will make sure i deliver my promises and again, the people that are going to surround me are going to be people of probably see integrity. ok, i'm going to thank you very, my grades can see i shall because i, i heard you saying something, i think we can hold og, our, even our current government. we can hold them accountable by. we actually have the platform. we have the media, we have townhome meetings, we have, we have connections actually connect us with the right people. if he wants,

for example, a leader in my community has signed off on it, on a infrastructural project that he hasn't done. i can actually go to the constituency like in our consistency, there's always an office that you can go to and you can report, show and show that this is actually not working. take pictures, take it. the media is on a very strong to, for us, especially when the technology go age. if you're, if you're a leader, is not doing anything, talk about it, tell him, send him messages. surprisingly, almost all our leaders on threats on facebook and all of that. we can actually talk to them. yes. make sure. get people to support you. sign a bill, all of that. it's possible. have seen the not too young to run and happen. so everything is possible if we really walk, harden it. the bedrock upon dom chris's bills is accountability. so one of the fastest way in easiest way is to use the freedom of information act f y, one of the tools available to young people today's that we can raise and therefore,

and of course your lawyers were willing to take those cases off. if we want to get information from south tame, department of government, m da's, and ministries, what is said is that those m dear the ministries ah, were necessarily going to respond to your request to provide information from sandy to young people. to date, the goal is not just to vote. the goal is to vote and show that the votes are counted, but after the votes are counted, we would now look at the manifesto that this can it's half shed just as you're sharing right now. and after that, within the 1st 3 months, 6 months, one year of the administration, we can use the freedom of information act will go to the different ministries and ask and say, what have you dawn concerning this or that is how you hold government accountable. also using the social media use in a town hall like she has said, also and gauge in which consequently offices does a how you or government the,

you know, lead us accountable for the close. thank you. thank you. god bless that both. i think that increasingly we are seen leave us pay attention to what you plus and it's, it's hard, it's not as simple as it's been said. so therefore, right. i mean of the responses it's ah, social media. i mean much to respond to those post jar full numbers. i mean, i'm actually walk to the channels that should walk. i'm not walk in. um, maybe sometime late. i would walk by think that what, what needs to be doing is to increasingly keep knocking and keep pushing out to get things done here. okay. i shall you want to say something. so dapper, i would like to tell you, you know, you want to create change. it doesn't happen in a year. it doesn't happen in a short time. let me try something. do you know when did not too young to build to not to young to run bill started? no but east it it took yes. so you have to,

i have to see nigerians actually have to work hard on it. it would disappoint you. it would it to actually break your heart and he to even kill your energy. but the thing is that nigeria is ours. you understand? we cannot just give up a lexical. we have to be there for it. so even if it's with it, yes, there were norris points, your teeth were you wanting? now we actually forget that we are collective. we're not alone to god bless a look. i'll just say this, when we started the multiplan to rome, bill, they told us that they told us it was impossible. don't come on, you're wasting your time. but guess what? we got it done. 2019 we got it in a blue jam said we're going to deliver electoral reform center jury to said we're wasting our time for 2022, the president signed the bill. what does it tell you? it means that when we come together and we make a commitment to making something better and we keep working on it, it is going to be done. i remember we had to protest right here. the unity found it

while to walk to the national assembly with knocked on doors. we spoke to legislators. we call them guess what would put your phone numbers on. i and people called up and we sent them text message, text messages there, read or text messages on the floor. and when it was time to pay the bill, guess what did they invite at all? because they knew the work that we have put in. so young people never give up, keep mark him, keep push him and then we'll respond. we've heard that young people should be patients. what, what is the reality on ground proper? do you think that people are really optimistic, positional things on the growth is about. i mean, renew, securities. immerse, right? even gain of which are you can more very free. l kiss terrible majors of spend off of your pockets. you sent me. i think last month. does the so be by n b, s, the sees permeable, 7 spends of my insurance. when multidimensional report by that means that good l care, i'm source of income po, bazzi, education, things. actually bob,

so clearly thinks about we can't, we can't lay ballparks. and sadly, we trust that things get better, but he wouldn't be all of a sudden things change. and because 9 just in a very tight situation, i expenditures are really i revenues very low subsidies gulping more than what we are budgeting for. steve's so things are bad and things will not change all over sodium. so yeah, overtime this might get bits are of course read people that we listen so of is putting in place the right policies. underwrite systems themes will get better over time. but it will be all of a sudden. all right, so you mentioned there, that's the next president obviously has a lot of work to do is not going to be uneasy, right? so i'm going to come to you cheating my because you are actually in on the apc presidential campaign council. and apart from your party as

a young nigeria and what kind of leda do you think that nigerians need at this critical point? we need to understand where we are before a movie and now it was not easy. and we encountered a lot of challenges. first, we came in to our freeze face a whole often channel, the development issue. we are able to sustain the economy because they have already existing institutions that back or with the social welfare, the able to be we're, we're, we don't, we are, do you on we, we are, we are was as a result of we are on the de unload i, we have a lot of challenges ahead of the 2020, and the action we should be looking at who can cables display, track record with ya to sedan because you kind of hand of it and to freon enterprise. all i named over to somebody when you know that the cb on the speaker doesn't correspond to the management on that mix tricia. i don't agree with what you do mostly. okay. understand because um you see

a country like nigeria what we need we just did. why rant in a genetic jute, don't take the country to from useless. you understand. when you look at the presenter country as though we have presently, now, most of them they are octogenarians. you understand, they're all, it's all about each level. well, you hobble says a war you can do. if you look at the top contenders, i don't think. okay, let me not be partisan with you. is also what we need to understand. the farther ahead is not about it. is about war. can you offer a why you offer those before with our truck war you possibly can give tours? thank you very much. okay. so to be la, and who seine, how brought up a very important point? i, i think that is, you know, topic of discussion among many nigerians do we need someone with experience and age actually agree with that in mind because in all the 17 her as been shot aspirants have seen actually has ever anyone ever noticed that the never give details

reports of what they want to bring to nigeria because they always leave us in the dark about what's happening. we've seen all of the people that are coming to now are the top one vendors. the one is a former governor to actually a former governor. one is a former president, and one is a former senator. oh, he is a senator. i think. so all of those we've seen what they've done. you understand? what are they doing now? what are they planning to do and based on what they have done, what do we expect to see? because the past activity dictates the future, and even if we get, do we have a youth there? okay, thank you very much, ayesha. so i would like to caught something or we overlooking it and it's so important to who when 9 j alicia come 2020 treat electrical use of may come actually he said our and if for any progressive movement there's always a need for the wisdom of the own as well as the dynamics in the radicalism and the

youthful exuberance of the young. so i think we have to look at all the 17 presidential candidate who carries the youth loom. we all agree that the are all old people, so a moon them carry, vibrant people to boil. so um, you know, i'm the guy we're in to see are so hot. so i like the fight going on with the politicians. those great. oh, but what my julia needs to do is not just enthusiasm you see, and to just seem because of the fact of production, right, i, age is not a factor production. so the idea therefore is that when you look at what the different candidates have put on the table after manifest law julians can question what they have. that is the document that we can follow out. stop me on

that point. god bless hosea. you want to say something i agree with him with yes, my friend robert dot. oh manifesto. it's important. however manifesto, it's one thing for you to say you're going to do something then it's another thing for you to actually do it. so we have sent over the years that they always come up with beautiful manifestos. everybody beautiful manifesto already comes to implementation. it's 0. so character is very cute. thank you. thank you very much as yet. oh timmy? well i want to butcher as more the said because we are into incoming prisons going to be or the him of effect to take the see show some policies or where you check the characters of some of the purchase. we have some ideas and some those are what

the office as nigeria you next think. not only that we are checking your track record. when you left off is what was the piece, what do we experience? what happened? we also need to check it and up till now. we also need to understand that we should remove emotions from qualities on the election of 20. 23 room was tricks the real fun. all is going to the diva, the nigeria. we want next. think again. i like your point who is going to deliver the nigeria we want we really, really have to wrap up now at i believe nigeria has come to the critical joint. i hear you with that i'm, i'm involved in running the campaign of someone to cover material candidates. and i have seen where people who ordinarily would shy away from electra williams are telling me that for the 1st time, they are willing to go out of their comfort zones, to vote in 22 to 40. and you didn't see this clearly where you see young people now

. 1 trying to not even collect money for us for out of their own pockets to make sure the company in for people key. thank you very much of the i think we can all agree to was the us point that nigeria is at a critical point. i want to thank the panelists for joining us today and you our view as for watching, if you have any comments, definitely write to us. we like to hear from you for now i'm flourish cocora. thank you so much for watching a well, a thank you flourish and all the 77 percenters who to pat we have had what young people want from their next leaders and how difficult it can be to make sure these leaders promises are kept to all nigerians we wish you good luck in the upcoming elections. please feel free to drop us

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