welcome to talk about paralyze meters assigns computers and governments go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work. how do we go? so that's how they can also terribly watch ah 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 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 hyde. 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 street debate in a boucher this week on the 77 percent street debate. when you look up the president congress, now we have chosen to know most of them, they are up to j. murders is all about it is of all you have or says a war. you can do the never give detail report of what 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 elect 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 lame 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 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 go to the selections?

role over at 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 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 law too young to rome, built on in our 2018, but i was signed by the president, and we also got electra 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 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 is 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 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. and he 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 him up 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 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 this leave is the only son that we demand juliana, you. we have the potentiality on talon to make this country a bit off list. 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 alice said to be deteriorated by the so called leaders that are unable to provide you understand the busy 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 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 him. 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. won't issue of employment to be solved. 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 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 m c carried c. we said we had unemployment, healthcare. we once free and fair election. so that's the right candidates will in

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 country that works. that's all. okay. a country that works and i also had inclusion there. ok 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, jira is really feeling behind, so we need actually change in educational systems and nigeria educational systems,

abram. so what do you think 9 journals 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 friction 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 has 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 contrary on to be more patriotic. do you think that we are there yet, like 2 young people finally have a c or cold 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 such to most advances, delsey, an electron legos, 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 electrons 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 cheating. why do you have a, do you think that election in nigeria work of car select the shows and nigeria walk out really well? because this is an institution we already have him does. we're, we use the process to let on bringing our leaders, but so far, the 7 years of if you see, you cannot text me, the amended a 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, see we, it's the election. did it like sharing system in the country? is a work in process for me. i think this time to work wings. 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. but i want to find out from you guys, apart from the election was obviously there has to be a way that nigerians hold their lead as accountable. 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 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 may stop

the know what to expect from the people, because the youth's ah, tired of deploy the food economy insecurity. all kinds of things, we're tired of it. so if i happen to be the president of the federal public of ninja, i believe i'll make the people as the center of my governance. 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 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. 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 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 kisses 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, dear the ministries, ah, we're 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 governor cannibal 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 ord government the you know, lead us accountable clinical. thank you. thank you. god bless that both. i think that increasingly we are seen leave us theat sanctions will be plus and it's, it's hot, 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 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, what is 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 walking 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, they read our text messages on the floor. and when it was time to pay the bill, guess what did they invited us because they knew the walk that we have put in. so young people never give up, keep mark him, keep push him 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 rock is about. i mean, renew, securities. immerse, right? even gain up, which are you can more very free. l kiss terrible majors. i've spent off of the apocalypse. you sent me, i think last month. does he so by envious the seas permeable sentences of my insurance. when multidimensional report by that means that good l care,

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 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 these 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 card. 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 into a freeze face a whole often gentle development issue. we are able to sustain that couldn't be because they have already existing institutions that back over their 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 developed. 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 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 trisha. i don't agree with what you do mostly. okay. you understand?

because on you see a country like nigeria, 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 presently, now, most of them they are octogenarians. you understand, they are all h is all about age of all you have or says a war you can do. if you look at the top contenders, i don't think, okay, let me not be practice. i would use also, what we knew 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 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 give it to their mom because in all the 17 hers 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 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 we've seen what they've done. you understand? what are you doing now? what are they planning to do and based on what they've done, what do we expect to see? because the past actually dictates the future. and even if we get, do we have a youth there? okay, thank you very much. i shall. so i would like to caught something or we overlooked unit and it's so important to who in nigeria, alicia contributing to treat. i'd like to quote, use of may come actually, he said our and if for any progressive movement, there's always in need for the wisdom of the own,

as well as the dynamic 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 elude. so, you know, i am the guy we're in to, sir, so hop. so i like the fight going on with the politicians. those great. oh boy, what my julian needs to do is not just enthusiasm. you see. and to just seen before, the fact of production. right. of 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 light julians can

question what they have. that is a document that we can follow out somebody and i point god bless his the i want to say something i agree with him with yes, my friend over there dots. oh manifesto is important. however manifesto it's one thing for you to say 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 choose country. thank you very much. as the air. 6 0, tibby was, i want to butcher as more the said, because we are in 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 dubious and some those are what the

office as nigeria you to lex stink. not only that, we are checking your truck 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 $22.00 to $3.00 room 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 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 material candidates on i have seen where people who ordinarily would shy away from electra in earning 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 sit is 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 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. 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

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