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you know that nigerian elections a, just around the corner on february 25th nigerians are electing a new president. president who harry is stepping aside of the 2 terms in office. they are electing new senators and peas and also new governors and leaders in state elections, whither and sars 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 use be reflected in the upcoming elections? my calling flourished to kura spoke to some young voters, politicians, and activists in our st debate in a boucher this week on the 77 percent street debate. when you look up the prosthetic congress that we have chosen to know most of the germans about it all, you have or says a war. you can't do the never give detail reports of what do you want to bring to

nigeria and based on what you 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 a like shows are coming up really soon. and if you speak to most nigerians, they'll tell you that these alexio's is not going to be business as usual. now in the past few years, nigeria has experienced some toby lead times from the economy to security and able to education. but this time around, it seems like many young people will have a charles to decide their own future on the run up to be alexio's. we've heard that about several to percent of the new bought as 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, oh, are the elliot say oh, last election or 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 goes accounts not sure. not sure. now in 2015 we saw the not so 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 28 team, but i was signed by the president and we also got electra reforms bill dawn in 2022 . so what it means is that i'm excited that we have the 1st time for our so all the work that we've been put in. and as we've got one more 1st arm put 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 see are nodding your head. do you agree with what god lester said? yes, i do agree, i feel like in the last decade until now we have seen a lot of changes and when, how youths 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. they would come on promise and go away, but i believe right now, our voice matters, like wherever we do matters, what will be 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, great, go 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, look in additional 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 june brought up the fellow men 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 dis, leave is the oldest son that we the managerial youth. we have the potentiality and talon to make this country a bit tough list. you understand because when you look at the kid, the bellman of any nation globe and it will still use, you understand that uplift tend to country to greater hot. you understand. that was the reason why will not allow our said to be deteriorated by the so called leaders that are unable to provide you understand the busy miss as to of 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 swat as secure nation. the one affordable education, the one of a horror in the education of 6 to okay, so i said one point i use that security, okay. i'll go through, you know, setting the youth in our time and now we need unemployment to be solved, monty show of employment resolved. okay, so unemployment is a major issue for you. double health care 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 and 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 ones free and fair election. so that's the right candidates will

a might free and fair elections. all right, god bless. i think the, i've read nigerian, you'd want 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 not 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 an idea 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. i show 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 to some nature is really failing behind. so we need

actually change in educational systems and nigeria educational systems, abram. so what do you think lined your house? 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, l carry every one on, give every one. it's a new sense of belonging in the country because if you look at nigeria, you find out that the country is divided. the northern and southern part of ninja day starts mistrust and fiction between the not 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 has the i but i'm changing the question. now you're very involved with our politics. you helped to trained to encourage young people to participate in basically in the country and to be more patriotic. do you think that we are there yet, like 2 young people finally have a c or count? are they ready to finally make a decision for the country or queue?

yes, we actually have the number, but i wouldn't see we are there yet. 70 percent of the population of mentor jones i use. yet when it comes to political part, suspicion, you can come to the number. let's talk about the answers. if we did with the answers, you saw that if you compare the number of people who came out to rally, it is a very small, very minute compared to the tim, the 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 needs to plead in change in the narrative. so we are not there yet. we still have a long way to go. okay, so you talk about political participation. so i guess this best begs the question, though, do nigerian youth believe in elections? do alexio's actually work?

i'm going to come to you dapple. i think for him, it's far from seen. it walks and class like some for what up now, thanks us to most of answers. deals e, an electron legos, and it's on ours. 9 percent. rad won't have thought that we've, vegetation with answers, people come out of what must we do not 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 that i bet on next year and even does go well, then he would make more. people want to come out on foot cheating. why do you have a, do you think that election in nigeria work? of course i like the shoes in nigeria. walk out real well because this is annisa to show we already have him as we are. we use the process to our let on bringing our leaders. but so far, the 7 years of, if you see you cannot sex with amended a lecture at that you can vote on your vote. we count. okay, thank you, jim,

are you mentioned 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 votes are, this is your 1st i'm going to depose you actually believe in the process. well, sincerely out. say we, it's the election dylan lecturing system in the country is a work in process for me. i think this time to work when if it isn't, it doesn't work in the past. think we have another pushing it 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 i tell you it's come to you abraham because you a policy shun and 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 pro or the food economy insecurity. all kinds of things, we're tired of it. so if i happen to be the president of the federal republic of ninja, 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 to? i'll be accountable to whatsoever i promise to do. i will make sure i deliver my promise. and again, the people that are going to surround me are going to be people of probably see integrity. okay, i'm going to thank you very much, great concierge out 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 wearing the technological 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 twitter, 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 if 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 is 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 certain department of government, m, da's, and ministries, what is said is that those empty or the ministries ah, were necessarily going to respond to your request to provide information. so i'm saying 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 did how you or god meant the you know, lead us accountable concludes. thank you. thank you. god bless that both. i'm. 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 sure you want to say something. so therefore, 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. what is it? it took?

yes. so you have to, i have to see nigerians actually have to work hard on it. it's were disappoint you . it's 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 know, one thing now we actually forget that we are collective. we're not alone. god bless a look. i'll just say this, when we started the multiplan to rome, bill, they told us they told us it was impossible. don't come on your wasting your time. but guess what? we got it done. 2019 we got it in a blue jam said we're gonna deliver electoral reform center jury. the 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'll make a commitment to making something better and we keep working at 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 called them guess what would put your 4 numbers on. right? 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 pushing 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 graph is about. i mean, renew securities. immerse, right? even gain up, which are you can more very free. i l kiss terrible majors i've spent off of the apocalypse. recently. i think last month does the survey by n b. s. the sees the 17th of my insurance when multidimensional report right,

that means that good health care, i'm source of income, poverty, education, things. actually bob, so clearly thinks about we can't, we can't lay ballparks. and sadly, we trust our teams get better, but he wouldn't be all of the 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 office put 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 today. 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 and now it was not easy. and we encountered a lot of challenges. first we came in to of, of, we are under development. we have a lot of challenges ahead of the 2020 on the action. we should be looking at who can cables display track record with ya to sedan because you kind of hand over and to free on enterprise, all an end of or to somebody when you know that the c v on the speaker doesn't correspond to the management on that mix trisha. i don't, i do what you do mostly. okay. you understand? because hm, 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 countries that we have present to now,

most of them they are octogenarians. you understand, they're all, it's all about age of all you hobble says a war you can do. if you look at the top content does, i don't think, okay, let me not be boxes on with this. also, what we need to understand the farther ahead is not about it is about war. can you offer a war? you offer those before with our truck war you possibly can give tourist. thank you very much. okay. oh 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 they never give detailed reports of what they want to bring to nigeria because they always leave us in the dark about what's happening. we have seen all of the people that are coming to now

are the top contenders. 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 with c, what they have done, you understand? what are you doing now? what are you planning to do and based on what you 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. i so. so i would like to caught something or we are overlooking it and it's so important to who when 9 j alicia come 2020 treat electrical use of may thomasville. he said, our and if for any progressive movement, there's always a need for the wisdom of the old, 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 they are all old people. so oh, for

a moon them carry vibrant people to more a loop. so arm, you know, i am the guy wearing 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 name because 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 manifested by julians can question what they have. that is the document that we can follow out. stop me at that point. god bless hosea. you want to say something. i agree with him with yes,

my friend over there that a manifesto is important. however, manifesto it. it's one thing for you to see, you're going to do something. then it's another thing for you to actually do it. so we have seen 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 choose. thank you. thank you very much. as yeah. 6 0, tibby was, i want to butcher as more the search because we are into upper income in prison is going to be our, the him of effect to take decision. some policies are where you check the characters of some of the 1st. we have some ideas and some those are what the office as nigeria you next think. not only that we are checking your truck record where you left off is what was the piece? what do we experience? what happened? we also need to check it on up till now,

and we also need to understand that we should remove emotions from qualities on the election of 22 to 3 who was tricks the real fund or 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. i believe nigeria has come to the critical juncture. and here you would see that 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 electro vernon are telling me that for the 1st time they are willing to go out of their comfort zones to vote into, into 2 to 50. and you would see this clearly where you see young people now trying to not even collect money for us, for out of their own pockets to make sure the company 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 to day and you are view as for watching if you have any comments. definitely, right, so i would like to hear from you. i'm for now i'm flourish, tucker. 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 a line on youtube. instagram or facebook. we always always want to hear from you. we leave you with some music from davida with

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