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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 terms in office. they are electing new senators and peas and also new governors and leaders in state elections with their ann 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 beat inflected in the upcoming elections? my colleague flourished to kura spoke to some young voters, politicians, and activists in our st debate in a boucher this week on the 77 percent st debate. when you look at the president, a copy of that we have chosen to know most of them, they are opted to move. it is all about it is of all what you have lost as a war. you can't do the never give details,

reports of what you want to bring to nigeria and based on what they have done, what do we expect to see? because the past bacteria dictates the future a. this week, the 77 percent is in nigeria. capital, a boucher and you as elect 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, let you as experience some toby named 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 vote the selections? whoa, 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 goes accounts not sure. we are not sure. now in 2015 we saw the nazi young to ron movement. 2020. we saw an size. 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 to young to rome built on in our 20 team, but i was signed by the president and we also got the electro reforms built on in 2022. so what it means is that i'm a site that we have the 1st time for our so all the work that we've been put in, and as we got one more, 1st armed would have to come in and participate in the process. so i think young people will wonder voices to be heard, 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 until 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. 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 the us, it decides whether an idea would become a global global i say, a global power or not. okay, now, great. go to cabbie roof 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 this tuition of 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 found a threat into the polities in order to prove to disks, leave this on this on that we'd in engineering you, we help the potentiality and talent 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 suit, you understand that up lipton to country to greater height. 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 the basic necessity 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 nigeria at swat as secure nation. the one affordable education, the one of a horror in the education of 6 them. okay, so i said one points, i used that the carried c. okay. i'll go through, you know, setting the youth in our time, and now when it's on employment to be solved, won't issue of employment to be solved. ok. so unemployment is a major issue for you, dapple healthcare out care, because i opens the therapy manager at the moment and am a cost a lot. so foot wants be medically, right? and if things don't change, we'll lose many people due to fans. we can easily fix. okay, thank you. so we've had um security. we said we had unemployment healthcare. we

ones free. i'll fair election. so that's the right candidates will emerge. free and fair elections. all right, god bless. i think the average nigerian youth won a country that works where they can leave all the potential and are they can travel anywhere around the country and not feel like they are not welcome. they just want to be included. they want a country that is not religiously divided and one a country where i can be in kano and i am, and i'm free to engage in 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. i gotcha. a revamped educational system. and the last i would go back to the last decade again, because we have seen dedication or infrastructure and educational seminars, euro is really failing behind. so we need actually change in educational systems in

nigeria, educational systems, abraham. so what do you think lined your as want to me? i think that they're 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 everyone it's a new sense of belonging in the country because if you look at names julia, you find out that the countries divided the northern and saw them. but of ninja day, stats, mistrust of fiction between the not 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. ok, i'm going to come to you has the i, but i'm changing the question. now you're very involved with our policy. you 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 are there yet. 70 percent of the population of nigerians i use. yet when it comes to political participation, you can come to 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 please it 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 a lecture, i was actually work, i'm going to come to you a couple i think for him it's far from saying it walks and class like some for what up another himself to most of answers. delsey an election in legos and it's on, i was 9 percent. rad won't have thought that we'd, vegetation with answers, people come out for 10 months. 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 that i bet on next year or 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 car select the shoes in nigeria. walk out. we'll well, because this is on easter to, shall 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 ok. thank you,

jim. out 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 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 deal electioneering system in the country is a work in process for me. i think this time to work when, if it is, it doesn't work in the past. think we have another put changes 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 sion 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 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? so 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. 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 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 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 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 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 sir tame, department of government, m days, 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. 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 all government the you know, lead us accountable concludes. thank you. thank you. god bless that both. 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 the responses and 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 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 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 in a bu. jam said we're gonna deliver electoral reform center during 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 invited us because they knew the work that we have put in. so young people never give up, keep mark him, keep pushing and they will 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 of which are you can more very free. i l kiss terrible majors. i've spent off of the apocalypse recently. i think last month was the soviet by n b. s. the seized by me about 7 spends 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, i didn't get better, but he wouldn't be all of a sudden things change. and because named jayce 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, over time, this might get bits are of close to 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 freeze face a whole lot of fin, sheila developed and they show we are able to sustain the economy because they have already existing institutions that sparkle with a social welfare. the 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 and 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 and ain't 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 i do 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 countries that 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 boxes on with this altered, but we need to understand the fact that 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 . oh so to be law 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 give it to their mom because in all the 17 hers 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 or he is a senator. i think so all of those with see what they have done. you understand? what are you 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 love to catch something a 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 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'm 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 julian needs to do is not just enthusiasm. you see, and to just seems to the fact of production, right. her 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. somebody are not going, god bless. who's the i want to say something i agree with them with yes, my friend of their dad's, oh manifesto is 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 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 ready to thank you. thank you very much as the air. 6 0, to the why i want to butcher as more harder you said, because we are into oper, incoming prisoners going to be or the him of afraid 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 where you left off is what was the piece, what do we experience? what happened? we also need to check it and up till now. and we also need to understand that we should remove emotions from qualities on the election of 22 to 3 room was tricks the real fund or 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. i believe nigeria house come to the critical joint. i, yes, you would say that i am involved in running the campaign of someone to cover material candidate. and i have seen where people who ordinarily would shy away from electron are telling me that for the 1st time they are willing to go out of their comfort zones,

to vote in 22 to 50. and you didn't see this clearly where you see young people now . 1 trying to not even collect money for us, turn 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 for centers 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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