our but that hasn't affected the booming business of luxury and they don't you just go to uses with author will grade you. hello and a warm welcome to the 77 percent. thanks for joining the program for africa's 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 are just around the corner. on february 25th.

nigerians are electing a new president, president who harry is stepping aside of the 2 times in office. they are electing new senators and peas, and also new governors and leaders in state elections. whither and sas 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 street debate in a butcher this week on the 77 percent street debate. when you look at the prosthetic country of that, we have risen to mount was of them. they are up to about it all you have or says a war, you can do the never give detail course 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 with this week, the 77 percent is in nigeria capitol, abu jam and you as a like shows are coming up really soon. and if you speak to most nigerians, they'll tell you that this election 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 elect shows. we've heard that about several to 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 vote this elections?

roll over. are the elliott 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 grades 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 law to young to rome, built on in our 28 team, but i was signed by the president and we also got the electra reforms built on in 2022. so what it means is that i'm a site that we have the 1st time for us all the work that we've been put in. and as we got one more 1st arm for us to come in and participate in the process. so i think young people will one day, of course is to be heard. and for me, i believe that this will be an election overdetermined. luckily by young people's

participation. k i c, or 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. so 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. you 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 that sit, 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, looking at distributional issues over what is happening today in this country. almost every team has been deteriorates. you understand, and also, you know, the youth, the ad enjoying 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 dest lead us on the sun, that we'd in engineering you, we have the potentiality on talon to mid this country, a bit tough las, you understand. because when you look at the kid, the bellman of any nation glove and it will still use you understand that uplift tindy country to grit. a hot you understand that was the reason why i will not allow ourselves to be deteriorated by the so called leaders that are unable to provide you understand debir, isaac, this has 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 wants? 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 him. okay, so i said one points are you set to carry t, okay. i'll go through, you know, setting the youth in our time and now we need unemployment to be soft, monty show of employment resolved. okay, 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 forsworn spiel 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've said we had unemployment healthcare, we once free and fair election. so that's the right candidate. really might free

and fair elections. all right, god, last i think the average nigerian, you'd want a country that works where they can leave all of your potential. and are they can travel anywhere around the country and not feel like 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 country 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 or infrastructure and educational seminars, euro is really feeling 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, l carry every one. i'll give every one. it's a new sense of belonging in the country because if you look at made julia, you find out that the countries divided the northern and saw them. but of ninja day, stats, mistrust, and fiction between the north on 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 policy to help to train, 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?

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 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 changing 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 seen. it walks and class like some for what up on a fame sauce to most of answers deals e an electron legos, and it's on. i was 9 percent rad won't have thought that we'd fetch addition would answers, people come out with her must. we didn't see that happen. so do electrons 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 or even does go well, vanny 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 car? select the shoes in nigeria. walk out really well because this is on easter to show we already have him because we are, we use the process to our let on bringing our leaders what so far? the 7 years of a up. you see, you cannot sex with amanda lecture or at that you can vote on your vote. we count.

okay, thank you. to my you mention the apc will come back to that, but i want to come to you now, do you think that election work? i mean, your 1st time vote out 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 deal electioneering 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 pacina 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 election was obviously there has to be a way that nigerians hold the lead as accountable. how can nigerians, how can we, as nigerians hold our lead, as a county will? and i'm not sure who 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 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 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 much guys. can see i shall because i, i heard you saying something, i think we can hold dog 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 an hour 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 an a very strong tool 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 are in 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 if seen the not too young to run and happen. so everything is possible if we really walk, harden it. the bedrock upon democracies bills is accountability. so one of the fastest way and 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 they are lawyers who are willing to take those cases off. if we want to get information from south tame, department of government em da's, and ministries, what is said is that those m d or 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 after sharon 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 heard govern accountable. also using the social media use in a town hall like she has said,

also engage in which a concert 20 offices did how you hoard 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 people are saying it's, it's hard, it's not as simple as it's been said. so therefore, right. i mean of them 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 missed 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 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 to not too young to bill 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, we're disappoint you. it would. it would actually break your heart and to even kill your energy. but the thing is that nigeria is hours, you understand, we cannot just give up electrical, we have to be there for it. so even if it's with it, yes, there were norris one to your teeth. well, you know, one thing though, we actually forget is that we are collective, we're not alone. god bless a look. i'll just say this. when we started the multiplan to run bill, they told our da da told us it was impossible. don't come on, you're wasting your time. but guess what? we got it done. 2019 we got in a bu. john said we're going to deliver electoral reform center jury. the said we're wasting our time for 2022. the prize them 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 it 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, right now a text message is on the floor. and when it was time to pay the bill, guess what did they invited us because they knew the walked out. we have put in so young people never give up, keep knocking, keep pushing and they will respond. we've heard that young people should be patients. what, what is the reality on ground up or do you think that people are really optimistic? positional things on the rock is about, i mean, renew, securities. immerse, right? even gain of which are you can more very free. i l kiss terrible majors of spend off of your pocket's recently. i think last month. does the, so be by n b s. the seized by me assessment 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 pins get better, but he wouldn't be all of a sudden things change. and because 9 jays 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. and so yeah, over time, these might get bits are of close to read people that we listen. so office put in place the right policies. underwrite systems teams 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 might because you are actually in on the apc presidential campaign cart. busy 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 a freeze facing whole often, you know, the developing they show we are able to sustain that kind of because they have already existing institutions that sparkle with our social welfare. able to be, we're where we don't, we are dia on. we, we are, we are, was, as a result of, we are under development. we have a lot of challenges ahead of the 2020, an action we should be. look at on who can keep his history does track record with ya to students because you kind of hand over and to pre on enterprise, all an end over to somebody when you know that the c v on this period doesn't correspond to the management on that demonstration, i don't, i do what you do mostly. okay. you understand because, um, you see

a country like line julia what we need. we just did, why rant in a genetic huge, don't take the country to from useless. you understand. when you look at the presenter countries that we have present to mount, most of them they are octogenarians. you understand, they are all, it is all about age of all what you hobbled says a war you can do. if you look at the top contenders, i don't think, okay, let me not be partisan with his alton. what we knew to understand the father a head is not about it. is about war. can you offer a war? you offer those before? read that would shock war you possibly can give tourist. thank you very much. okay . so to the law and who say me, 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 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 with see 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 iesha. so i would like to cut something or we are overlooking it and it's so important to who when 9 j alicia? come 2023. i'd like to quote, use of may thomasville, if 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 they are all old people. su 4 among them, carry, vibrant people to elude. so arm, you know, i am the guy, we're in the sears. so hot, so i like to 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 manifesto law julians can

question what they have. that is the document that we can follow out. stop me on that point. god bless was yeah, you want to say something i agree with him with yes, my friend who was their dads. a manifesto is important. however, manifesto, it's one thing for you to see. you're going to do something. then it is 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 to thank you. thank you very much as the yeah oh. 6 timmy was, i want to butcher as more the said because we are into of 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 1st 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 on up till now. and we also need to understand that we should remove emotions from qualities on the electron of 22 to 3 room was tricks the real fun for your school. you to the diva, the nigeria we want next. think again, i like your point who is going to deliver the night you out we want, we really, really have to wrap up now at 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 notarial candidates on 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 2040 and you would,

he 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 mixture the comp in for people key. thank you very much. as the i think we can all agree to was the us point that nigeria ease at a critical point. i want to thank the panelists for joining us today, and you are view as for watching, if you have any comments, definitely be right to us. we like to hear from you. i'm for now i'm flourish to correct. 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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