When determination meets great innovation, then we have someone like Segun Oyeyiola. A final year student of Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile-Ife, in this interview with ’RONKE SANYA, bares it all on how he achieved the feat of building and driving a car that needs no fuel to move, but solar and wind energy:
Can you introduce yourself?
I am Oyeyiola Segun, a final year student of electronic and electrical engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I am a native of Ifetedo, Ife South Local Government Area in Osun State, Nigeria.
I am a kind of person that see every problem as an opportunity for me to find a lasting solution to it. When others talk about problems facing them, I try to solve problems that come my way. I don’t give up on any situation that I find myself; I have always believed that there is a way out of every problem, if I look closely, so, I want to be known and identified as a problem solver.
What problem did you identify that spurred you to make a solar powered car?
I noticed that there is a problem in our climate change which is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years and this is caused due to the effects of combustion of fuel.
If we can reduce or stop combustion of fuel, this world will be a better place for us to live. Most of us are not aware of this problem, so I thought of building a car that will not use fuel for its movement. This car will not produce carbon dioxide emissions that cause change in our climate.
How did you get the materials to build the car?
I used the available materials I could find around to build the car. I also used my personal money for the building of the car and the little funds my parents could also provide. However, I still need more funds to perfect the work.
When you wanted to start this project, what was the reaction of your friends and parents?
Most of my friends said that my country has not built a car that uses fuel; they wondered how I could possibly build a car that will not use fuel. They tried to discourage me but I told them that, we, the youths are the agent of change and it will start from somewhere. My parents knew the kind of person I was. They knew that I love bringing solutions to problems; they were just looking forward to how I would solve the problem.
When the car moved, right in their presence, they were very happy that I said it and I did it.
What kept you focused and determined?
I just believed that I could do it, despite all odds. I have made up my mind that the car would be the personal car that I will be driving around town.
How long did it take you to build the car?
I cannot really say for now but it is more than 12 months now. This was because I initially started getting the materials in bits.
Did you encounter any financial challenges?
Financial challenge has always been there but I just continued and moved on with my work because I am so optimistic about the future.
How does the car function?
The car uses wind and solar energy, most people think it is only solar energy because they can only see the solar panel on top of the car but the car uses wind and solar energy.
Apart from that, you can know the state of the car like the battery level, weather conditions, how far you can go and the GPS location of the car by installing the simple application I developed alongside the car.
How does the application work?
The application can be installed on your smartphone or your laptop, from this application, you will be able to get some information about the car. So it will also reduce the stress of manual checking of our normal car
Do you plan to manufactor more of this?
The car is targeted to be used in Nigeria and Africa in general. This is because of our weather. If we refuse to make a car like this, no other countries will do it for us. So my plan is that this car will be our future car.
Apart from the fame that the production of this car has brought you, what else has it brought you? Has any company shown interest in financing or supporting you?
As of his moment, no company has shown interest in financing or supporting me. Maybe they are not aware of my project.
How did your lecturers react when you finished the project?
My lecturers are aware of it, one of them commented on it on my Facebook page. However, I have not met anyone personally.
Plan for the future
I plan to set up my own company and bring more people on board and work together as a team and achieve more.
Words of advice for other students willing to embark on a project like this too:
In life, there will always be challenging situations that will appear discouraging, we can’t run away from it, instead, we should see it as an opportunity to succeed. Make hard work your watchword, knowing that in every challenge, there is a way out of it.
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Introduction to the average Nigerian – Japheth J Omojuwa
Are you ready to die for Nigerians?
For those of you that need to think very hard about that question, let me guide you into the thoughts that should help you make a decision. The Arab Spring started off the back of a citizen who immolated himself. Then others went mad and the spring consumed entrenched powers. If a Nigerian had done that, many things would have happened but certainly not the spring. If a Nigerian sets himself on fire over the issues and poverty faced by Nigerians, many possible questions would be asked.
“Why did he set himself on fire? Once there is life there is hope.” If the person did it in the morning, *average Nigerians would say, “why didn’t he do in the afternoon when workers are returning from work?” and if the person did it in the afternoon, average Nigerians would go, “he should have done it in the morning, cause traffic, so that others will join in the protest.” If the dead protester used, say 4 litres of petrol to burn himself, average Nigerians would say,”that’s almost N400 worth of petrol wasted. Why didn’t he use firewood?” And had the person somehow used firewood, the very same average Nigerians will go, “in this world of climate change and desertification, why in the world would he waste firewood to kill himself?”
If the person was the only child of his parents, average Nigerians would say, “why did he have to hurt his parents? Why didn’t he at least inform them so they’d be prepared” and were the protester to have siblings, average Nigerians will ask “why didn’t he involve some of his other siblings? It would have been more effective if he had burnt not only himself but may be two of his sisters and brothers for effect.”
If per chance the person gets saved and did not die, average Nigerians will ask “why didn’t he just die? Now he is useless to the society” and if the person used a gun, average Nigerians will ask, “why did he use a gun, that’s un-dramatic, he should have set himself on fire.”
There are a million questions and accusations that’d follow this act but only a few will be in line with the expectation of the dead; that the people for whom he died see a reason to commit themselves to the struggle for change in Nigeria.
Average Nigerians are not dumb; they are smart, in fact, too smart. They will not be asking those questions because they are dumb, they will be asking those questions to avoid anything that’d require them to fight, to agitate, to protest or make requests on the government for change to happen. The English language calls it cowardice but this is not directly reflected except you take a deep look at the underlying reasons why people ask questions when it is time for action and why they ask for action when they know deep down those who will hit the street are only ready to outline the issues first of all. So now, refer to the first sentence of this piece and see if you can answer the question better.
There is a recent example. The #OurNASS protests started in July as #AugustMarch on Twitter when as with the #OccupyNigeria movement, Nigerians on social media started discussing the need to take the anger on social media to the streets. This time, the debate was squarely about the pay of the National Assembly. At this time, everybody had something to say and virtually everyone agreed it was time. Of course as usual, the average Nigerian said, “all they can do is tweet and talk, they cannot go on the street to protest.” It does not matter that the bulk of these young people started and brought about the country’s most renowned protest, #OccupyNigeria. The average Nigerian felt the tweets and talks were useless because according to him, hitting the streets – even without thinking, facts and baring the issues before hand – was the only way forward. Despite the efforts to denigrate their attempts for change, these young Nigerians were undeterred and certainly did not thoughtlessly hit the streets. What they did was go behind closed doors to organise. What do we do? How do we do it? When is the best time to do it? Who should we work and partner with? They discussed and debated. They argued, agreed and disagreed but were never disagreeable. All the while, those who knew they were planning a protest did not have super ideas of what was best. If they did have them, they did not say a thing! You would think, based on the defined character of the average Nigerian above that they were simply waiting for when it was certain the protests would no longer hold. To then say, “why haven’t they come out to protest?”
Then the Nigerians who had spent the better part of about 10 weeks planning finally came out. They said they’d march in Abuja initially with respect to the pay of the National Assembly. It was designed as a peaceful protest in Abuja that’d involve engaging the National Assembly in a logical debate about its budgetary allocations and the discordant realities of poverty on the streets of Nigeria. The initial protest and engagement was designed to be a first of many steps to get the National Assembly to be accountable. Guess what, the average Nigerian who had those 10 weeks to map out so called better ideas on strategy and what to do finally spoke – on the eve of the protests. “No! This is not what we need. We need guns and bullets. How can we engage David Mark?” and “I am not interested in protests, when you are ready for a bloody revolution please call me” and bla bla bla and bullshit spilling all over! “The ones we protested what changed? There are no successful protests.” If they sounded logical on the eve of the protests, they removed the mask over that when some of them went as far as mocking the protesters. One even said they should be shot at sight!
If you take one issue, they will say “what about this and that issue?” and if you bite the bait and take “this and that” issue, they will say “why not focus on one first.” If you are silent you are a coward. If you are too loud, then a politician has paid you. What then do you think these average Nigerians would have you do? Nothing! Be nothing! Do nothing! As long as you never existed, you’d be fine. Some call it envy and jealousy but I don’t think those words do justice to the phenomenon of hating those deemed to be at the forefront.
This is why I do what I do; it is who I am. This is why it looks as though I don’t give a …. It is because I don’t! Once I am convinced about the need for something, hating only spurs me on. I am not doing it trying to save a people or some people, I am doing it because this is my life. It does not matter what people say; that I collect money from the APC, that Bola Tinubu pays me, that Nasi El-Rufai pays me, that I am an American agent, that I am Illuminati, that I secretly work for the PDP…the accusations are endless but they all come from the same source; a group of people who would rather people like myself keep shut and come and chop. You find them on social media, mini contractors and Lilliputian ball boys and micro assistants of local politicians who believe that asking for a better country puts their own sources of income at risk. They’d do anything to defend their butter and bread, they’d say anything to shut people like myself up but shutting up would be a tragedy.
I am inspired by the fact that I am not alone. I have friends who are committed to this Nigerian project. Many of them would live easier lives minding their thriving businesses, but they’d rather commit to working for a better country. Many of them like myself have had countless opportunities to “take and be quiet” even as recent as two weeks ago but they remain undaunted. Many who would sell out assume others are like them so they accuse you of what you haven’t done. They say you will be who you have not been. They intend to live their unfulfilled lives waiting for you to fall. When you create that siege mentality around yourself, you against them, you know falling is in your hands and so you keep moving…but only forward. I appreciate my friends and those young Nigerians committed to take our country back! But for them, someone like myself would probably sign a long-term contract and just maintain a life in the United States and Europe. God bless these ones who keep the fire burning. They are not politicians but they are interested in politics. Like myself, they are accused by the establishment through their social media agents, of being sponsored by certain elements but all you need do is open your eyes and you’d see these young people are creating value beyond just making demands on the government of the day.
When we needed the National Assembly to make the then vice-president Jonathan to be acting president, they were there to ask for justice to be done. Today when they ask for justice from the same government, they have ethnicity thrown as a card to distract from issues. The ethnicity that was not there when we marched to have the President installed.
Going forward, I personally remain committed to my values and critical relationships. I believe there is a long way to go and needless battles must be avoided, as there are real ones ahead. I believe to have a better country the average Nigerian must become a sort of factivist with his or her work. It just matters that you don’t make activism that work. Get a job, and then fight through it. Don’t sell out and call a god today the one you called a fool yesterday, like one of these social media onenaija boys. There is no need for personal conflicts; if we fight using words, we’d have wasted our words. If we fight using blows, we’d have wasted our blows. Like the average Nigerian described above, people will always be who they are anyway and that diversity is what makes our world what it is. I am excited about tomorrow. I am excited because the future I see for myself and my country are way better than the realities we both see today. I know that what we see today makes it difficult to hope for a better tomorrow but I also know that we cannot judge a tomorrow that is yet to come. Like Nigeria’s future, tomorrow remains a clean slate for me and I hope to live it on my own terms like I have always done. I am not where I used to be; I have more than I have ever had. God has blessed me and I am now a blessing to many. Many things about me have changed but those are mostly things money can buy, the most important thing remains the same; I am the same ol’ Gee! Thank you for your support. I have been blessed by many of you and I have found strength at critical times because of your kind words. Have my best wishes. Glory to God!
*The average Nigerian must fight for his/her country or forget it altogether. There is no messiah coming to save us.
For those of you that need to think very hard about that question, let me guide you into the thoughts that should help you make a decision. The Arab Spring started off the back of a citizen who immolated himself. Then others went mad and the spring consumed entrenched powers. If a Nigerian had done that, many things would have happened but certainly not the spring. If a Nigerian sets himself on fire over the issues and poverty faced by Nigerians, many possible questions would be asked.
“Why did he set himself on fire? Once there is life there is hope.” If the person did it in the morning, *average Nigerians would say, “why didn’t he do in the afternoon when workers are returning from work?” and if the person did it in the afternoon, average Nigerians would go, “he should have done it in the morning, cause traffic, so that others will join in the protest.” If the dead protester used, say 4 litres of petrol to burn himself, average Nigerians would say,”that’s almost N400 worth of petrol wasted. Why didn’t he use firewood?” And had the person somehow used firewood, the very same average Nigerians will go, “in this world of climate change and desertification, why in the world would he waste firewood to kill himself?”
If the person was the only child of his parents, average Nigerians would say, “why did he have to hurt his parents? Why didn’t he at least inform them so they’d be prepared” and were the protester to have siblings, average Nigerians will ask “why didn’t he involve some of his other siblings? It would have been more effective if he had burnt not only himself but may be two of his sisters and brothers for effect.”
If per chance the person gets saved and did not die, average Nigerians will ask “why didn’t he just die? Now he is useless to the society” and if the person used a gun, average Nigerians will ask, “why did he use a gun, that’s un-dramatic, he should have set himself on fire.”
There are a million questions and accusations that’d follow this act but only a few will be in line with the expectation of the dead; that the people for whom he died see a reason to commit themselves to the struggle for change in Nigeria.
Average Nigerians are not dumb; they are smart, in fact, too smart. They will not be asking those questions because they are dumb, they will be asking those questions to avoid anything that’d require them to fight, to agitate, to protest or make requests on the government for change to happen. The English language calls it cowardice but this is not directly reflected except you take a deep look at the underlying reasons why people ask questions when it is time for action and why they ask for action when they know deep down those who will hit the street are only ready to outline the issues first of all. So now, refer to the first sentence of this piece and see if you can answer the question better.
There is a recent example. The #OurNASS protests started in July as #AugustMarch on Twitter when as with the #OccupyNigeria movement, Nigerians on social media started discussing the need to take the anger on social media to the streets. This time, the debate was squarely about the pay of the National Assembly. At this time, everybody had something to say and virtually everyone agreed it was time. Of course as usual, the average Nigerian said, “all they can do is tweet and talk, they cannot go on the street to protest.” It does not matter that the bulk of these young people started and brought about the country’s most renowned protest, #OccupyNigeria. The average Nigerian felt the tweets and talks were useless because according to him, hitting the streets – even without thinking, facts and baring the issues before hand – was the only way forward. Despite the efforts to denigrate their attempts for change, these young Nigerians were undeterred and certainly did not thoughtlessly hit the streets. What they did was go behind closed doors to organise. What do we do? How do we do it? When is the best time to do it? Who should we work and partner with? They discussed and debated. They argued, agreed and disagreed but were never disagreeable. All the while, those who knew they were planning a protest did not have super ideas of what was best. If they did have them, they did not say a thing! You would think, based on the defined character of the average Nigerian above that they were simply waiting for when it was certain the protests would no longer hold. To then say, “why haven’t they come out to protest?”
Then the Nigerians who had spent the better part of about 10 weeks planning finally came out. They said they’d march in Abuja initially with respect to the pay of the National Assembly. It was designed as a peaceful protest in Abuja that’d involve engaging the National Assembly in a logical debate about its budgetary allocations and the discordant realities of poverty on the streets of Nigeria. The initial protest and engagement was designed to be a first of many steps to get the National Assembly to be accountable. Guess what, the average Nigerian who had those 10 weeks to map out so called better ideas on strategy and what to do finally spoke – on the eve of the protests. “No! This is not what we need. We need guns and bullets. How can we engage David Mark?” and “I am not interested in protests, when you are ready for a bloody revolution please call me” and bla bla bla and bullshit spilling all over! “The ones we protested what changed? There are no successful protests.” If they sounded logical on the eve of the protests, they removed the mask over that when some of them went as far as mocking the protesters. One even said they should be shot at sight!
If you take one issue, they will say “what about this and that issue?” and if you bite the bait and take “this and that” issue, they will say “why not focus on one first.” If you are silent you are a coward. If you are too loud, then a politician has paid you. What then do you think these average Nigerians would have you do? Nothing! Be nothing! Do nothing! As long as you never existed, you’d be fine. Some call it envy and jealousy but I don’t think those words do justice to the phenomenon of hating those deemed to be at the forefront.
This is why I do what I do; it is who I am. This is why it looks as though I don’t give a …. It is because I don’t! Once I am convinced about the need for something, hating only spurs me on. I am not doing it trying to save a people or some people, I am doing it because this is my life. It does not matter what people say; that I collect money from the APC, that Bola Tinubu pays me, that Nasi El-Rufai pays me, that I am an American agent, that I am Illuminati, that I secretly work for the PDP…the accusations are endless but they all come from the same source; a group of people who would rather people like myself keep shut and come and chop. You find them on social media, mini contractors and Lilliputian ball boys and micro assistants of local politicians who believe that asking for a better country puts their own sources of income at risk. They’d do anything to defend their butter and bread, they’d say anything to shut people like myself up but shutting up would be a tragedy.
I am inspired by the fact that I am not alone. I have friends who are committed to this Nigerian project. Many of them would live easier lives minding their thriving businesses, but they’d rather commit to working for a better country. Many of them like myself have had countless opportunities to “take and be quiet” even as recent as two weeks ago but they remain undaunted. Many who would sell out assume others are like them so they accuse you of what you haven’t done. They say you will be who you have not been. They intend to live their unfulfilled lives waiting for you to fall. When you create that siege mentality around yourself, you against them, you know falling is in your hands and so you keep moving…but only forward. I appreciate my friends and those young Nigerians committed to take our country back! But for them, someone like myself would probably sign a long-term contract and just maintain a life in the United States and Europe. God bless these ones who keep the fire burning. They are not politicians but they are interested in politics. Like myself, they are accused by the establishment through their social media agents, of being sponsored by certain elements but all you need do is open your eyes and you’d see these young people are creating value beyond just making demands on the government of the day.
When we needed the National Assembly to make the then vice-president Jonathan to be acting president, they were there to ask for justice to be done. Today when they ask for justice from the same government, they have ethnicity thrown as a card to distract from issues. The ethnicity that was not there when we marched to have the President installed.
Going forward, I personally remain committed to my values and critical relationships. I believe there is a long way to go and needless battles must be avoided, as there are real ones ahead. I believe to have a better country the average Nigerian must become a sort of factivist with his or her work. It just matters that you don’t make activism that work. Get a job, and then fight through it. Don’t sell out and call a god today the one you called a fool yesterday, like one of these social media onenaija boys. There is no need for personal conflicts; if we fight using words, we’d have wasted our words. If we fight using blows, we’d have wasted our blows. Like the average Nigerian described above, people will always be who they are anyway and that diversity is what makes our world what it is. I am excited about tomorrow. I am excited because the future I see for myself and my country are way better than the realities we both see today. I know that what we see today makes it difficult to hope for a better tomorrow but I also know that we cannot judge a tomorrow that is yet to come. Like Nigeria’s future, tomorrow remains a clean slate for me and I hope to live it on my own terms like I have always done. I am not where I used to be; I have more than I have ever had. God has blessed me and I am now a blessing to many. Many things about me have changed but those are mostly things money can buy, the most important thing remains the same; I am the same ol’ Gee! Thank you for your support. I have been blessed by many of you and I have found strength at critical times because of your kind words. Have my best wishes. Glory to God!
*The average Nigerian must fight for his/her country or forget it altogether. There is no messiah coming to save us.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Beyond the Muslim/Muslim Ticket in APC
Since Femi Fani Kayode sounded the alarm of a possible Muslim/Muslin ticket in APC, there's been lots of talks in the Nigerian political circle.
Dele Momodu, CEO and publisher of Ovation International and a major political voice in Nigeria, wrote the article titled "Beyond the Muslim/Muslim Ticket."
Read and share your thoughts...
Fellow Nigerians, our country witnessed something unprecedented some 21 odd years ago. It was the audacious move by Chief Moshood Abiola who chose to appoint a fellow Muslim, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, as his Presidential running-mate for the June 12 1993 election. It appeared sacrilegious in a country that has always been sharply divided along ethnic and religious lines. The decision caused so much commotion in the ranks of the Social Democratic Party at that time. Indeed, Papa Adekunle Ajasin, elder statesman and former Governor of Ondo State, was so infuriated that he put a call through to Abiola and scolded him in strong words. A no-nonsense man, he was quoted as telling Abiola “…with this your unacceptable decision, you've murdered Christ a second time!” Abiola, a master at dousing tension with powerful wise-cracks was said to have replied “Baba, mi o si ni Calvary sir…” (I was not in Calvary sir). Papa Ajasin and other enraged leaders allowed Abiola to carry on with his gamble but I doubt if it was as simple as we tried to play it.
Even for us Abiola’s foot-soldiers at the time, what he did was a dangerous taboo. The news was broken to us by Dr Doyin Abiola, our boss at Concord newspapers, who invited Dele Alake, Segun Babatope, Tunji Bello and I to her office where she dropped the bombshell. According to her, “Daddy called from Abuja and asked me to tell you guys that he has changed his mind about picking a Northern Christian as his Vice Presidential candidate.” We all sank into our seats, in total shock and utter disbelief. The sad part was that we had earlier gone to town telling our media friends that Abiola was going to run with a Christian. We wondered the wisdom behind this damaging volte face. How were we to confront our colleagues with this apparent monstrosity?
Dr Abiola lectured us a bit on what her husband had taught her over time: “Daddy believes that if you must convince anyone about anything, the first person to convince is yourself… He has already convinced himself that the Muslim/Muslim ticket was doable. It is now up to you guys to convince yourselves.” It was more of an instruction than an argument or persuasion. By the time we picked ourselves up to brace up to the atrocious challenges we were sure to face, we received another salvo from Dr Abiola: “Daddy is set to flag off his campaign in Kaduna without announcing his running-mate” This was getting interesting.
Not only was Chief Abiola under intense pressure to pick a Northern Muslim he was also being inundated and suffocated with names of potential candidates by lobbyists and godfathers. It was such a big mess. But I think the SDP Governors won the day when they got Abiola to announce their choice of Kingibe. The rest is history. The didactic message from my preamble is that some seeds of discord were already planted in SDP from that moment on. I seriously suspect that many of those who lost the argument and the bid on that occasion only went away to nurse their injuries quietly but never forgave Abiola in the real sense. When the major conundrum erupted, it was like payback time.
History has a way of repeating itself. There are serious rumblings within the major opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC). The cause is the believable rumor that some powerful forces may have decided to try a Muslim/Muslim ticket again in the next Presidential election of 2015. A Nigerian journalist asked me on a flight to New York last week if I thought it was possible. Of course, Nigeria is a nation of possibilities. This epistle you are reading sums up my analysis during our long flight.
It is easier for a Muslim/Muslim ticket to work than that of a Christian/Christian. The heavily populated geo-political zones in Nigeria namely North West, South West and North East each have a large Muslim presence. Also the North Central is thickly populated by Muslims. The South East belongs almost totally to Christians just like the South South minus Edo State where we have pockets of Muslims. What is my verdict? A Muslim/Muslim ticket can win an election in Nigeria over and over again. The way Nigeria is currently configured makes it very practical and realizable. You and I can protest to high heavens and till kingdom comes, but the stark reality is that democracy is a game of numbers.
What I just postulated is not mere theory. We have seen the actualization of it in the annulled mandate of June 12. There is a caveat however. Muslims or Christians are not likely to vote automatically for candidates on the basis of religion. Christians are as sharply divided as Muslim sects, though Muslims are likely to be more cohesive. I have lost count of how many Christian denominations there are. The Pentecostal churches seem to be more liberal than the Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Jehovah’s Witness, Methodists, and other old generation sects.
Religion is actually not the number one agenda on the list of politicians. It is money, raw cash. Money unites enemies on a regular day. On awkward days, its force is even more potent because the dark forces only have to deploy a greater amount of money and they are surely liable to have their way.
The second item on the political agenda is power. The in power holds the aces. He deploys the perks and largesse of power as he feels. The greatest of the greats eat from his palm. Some juicy appointments can instantly transform a certified pauper into a certificated billionaire. No one can compete with PDP on that level. The third is ethnicity or where you come from. The Nigerian commonwealth is a giant cake being rotated amongst the majorities. Jonathan’s emergence which catapulted a lumpen-proletariat from a minority zone into a position of absolute authority was either a deliberate accident or a complete miscalculation on the part of our Mafia dons. Now that he has grabbed power for a region that perceived itself as downtrodden, it has become difficult to dislodge him.
Other minorities in the country see him as a rallying or focal point. It is now no longer easy to discountenance the minorities or relegate them to the background. Power-play in the Republic has changed and there is a new Sherriff with his full complement of dogged and loyal Deputies in town. The President thus holds three of the four aces for becoming maximum ruler in our terrain. These are money, power and the area you come from. The fourth is religion. The President certainly has enough resources to gather as many Muslims as Christians if he plays his cards right. He therefore has the unparalleled privilege of having the capacity to hold all the aces!
While the opposition seems to have the numbers on paper, mainly because the generality of the people who appear to be fed up with the ruling party, the choice of very controversial candidates may capsize their boat. Politics is like a game of football. You need both strikers and defenders to win. Only a foolish team would play the Brazilian style in a game against Brazil. APC has a guaranteed 60 to 70 percent of angry army of unemployed and very bitter youths just waiting to connect with the better candidates they know only APC can unleash. It cannot afford to try and match PDP cash for cash or insensitivity for insensitivity. It must dare to be different even at great sacrifice to personal ambitions.
The game would be sweeter for APC, with a combination of experience and youthfulness, so as to tap into the abundance of restless youths plaguing our political landscape looking for salvation in the form of a leader whose ideals and vision are rooted in the 21st century. Therefore, as a rule, one of the candidates for President or Vice President should currently be in service. Neither must have been out of touch for too long. That would be like recalling Segun Odegbami, Christian Chukwu or Stephen Keshi to come and play for Nigeria in the 2015 World Cup. Our coaches must be more creative and imaginative than that.
The opposition must be sensitive to the deep religious sentiments in Nigeria today. A government that preaches change must never be seen to seek to trample on rights and freedom of the people. Even if a Muslim/Muslim ticket can win in the long run, we must not run the risk of stoking the embers of religious conflagration. We already have enough problems in our hands, we should not add to it. To assume that Christians won’t mind a Muslim/Muslim ticket is a subtle way of turning them into inferior minorities. This type of insensitivity led to the collapse of law and order in the South/South where the militants had to take the law into their hands. The money that should be used for developing Nigeria in general is now being squandered on some nebulous amnesty program. We would have saved ourselves from this outlandish hocus-pocus if we had distributed our resources with simple common-sense.
This leads me to the next thesis. This is the first time the region that produces our golden eggs would be allowed to manage the poultry. The opposition seeks to sack their Farm Manager for several reasons all bothering on lack of effective leadership. The people of the South/South are insisting their son must serve the eight years of two terms permissible under our Constitution. Would it not be reckless to remove him and not give the zone at least the number two slot which may even be taken to be only a token gesture by those concerned? It is almost certain that Nigeria would know no peace if and when it happens that the South/South has lost out to other regions, so soon after the miracle that catapulted Jonathan to power, without the opportunity to at least play second fiddle. This perfidy will be compounded by ignoring the religious background of the region and its strong Christian affiliations. It will be like adding insult to injury. This is the crux of the matter.
The whole hullabaloo of angling for power in Nigeria is about gaining access to the oil wealth. How fair would it be to kick Jonathan out without having one of their own on the new ticket? I’m convinced APC has found itself in a volatile quagmire. How it wriggles out would depend on its willingness and readiness to think beyond politics of self and embrace politics of equity, justice and fair-play. There are many stars from every part of Nigeria who have the requisite brilliance to lead us out of the present mess. I would not say that Jonathan must remain in power by force, whether he performs or not, but we must also discourage any attempt to side-line the region that has suffered most despite its huge contributions to Nigeria’s development. It would have been easier to suppress this sentiment if our country was very normal but we are very far from it.
As a matter of fact, APC has a lot of convincing work to do in the Niger Delta in particular. It is not going to be an easy task persuading them to abandon the number one position for even number two. To suggest a worse position than number two would be tantamount to rubbing raw pepper to a fresh wound, and an affront of the worst order. Nigeria is already in its most delicate state and hanging so precariously right now. There is no guarantee that even the north would not see the intrusion of the South West into the current permutation as a surreptitious way to return to power so soon after President Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight years in office.
Those who genuinely love APC must speak up now. Many people are not speaking out for fear of ex-communication but we know the views mostly expressed in private. APC will fail if the people cannot see any serious difference between its operatives and the people they wish to replace. In this regard, the alarm raised by Femi Fani-Kayode should not be dismissed offhandedly. Forget the messenger and let us deal with the message. It does not matter to me if Femi has other personal motives. He has voiced out loud and crisp what many people are discussing in hushed whispers. His missive is strident and clear, in the dramatic fashion only patented for him.
The change we want can only be thrown into the Atlantic Ocean by APC. Many have decided to try them out under an uncommon article of faith. But it is doubtful if APC itself appreciates the magnitude of the burden it is expected to shoulder. They have done extremely well to have come this far. Their fall would be too cataclysmic and we may not recover from it for several decades.
Sadly for Nigeria, we would have been sentenced to many more years of retrogression. That would be democracy despoiled and another hope aborted.
Big shame!
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Nigeria’s Problem is You!
Every day, I sit to ask myself… Whose problem is Nigeria’s? Because most at times, we act like it’s a foreign problem and we are just here to analyze, scavenge and then later leave.
Today, already known to us that on paper, Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa and the 26th biggest in the world (according to our rebased GDP which pits us at $509.9 billion). As much as it excites those rulers in power to flaunt this is not as much as it vexes those without power to hiss at this.
But realistically, today we are thronged with a mother of issues, ranging from wide spread poverty to inequality to public and private mismanagement and sorts. Every day, I watch the news about Nigeria, I read through comments on blogsites and online news platforms and my spirit breaks, then I ask myself… Who divided Us?
My spirit doesn’t break because we have a problem but because we are all looking at ourselves searching for those whose ethnic or religious group caused the problem we face today, all to feel cool with you, saying… once I can point my finger at someone then I am cool, and this most at times go into the lines of aggressive attack of our beliefs into ethnicity and religion.
Our division is our real problem and not any problem you think is our problem. No monster! No problem! No Government can stand against a majority and active united people. Some were paid to make a divide but how much is that soul worth?
The question today is… can we know where you stand? For or against those who are sucking us dry and flaunting figures globally, for or against those who are asking for overseas help to catch backyard terrorists, for or against those who are arresting those who demand for their rights, for or against those sucking and killing jobseekers, for or against those who treasure politics, self and family above national interest?
Ask yourself this question… When did you last see a protest and all your mind searched for was a reason why the protest shouldn’t have held. Are you that sold out? Why this fear for your freedom? If you don’t want it, don’t you think of your children? All I will say to you is that you are a coward whose lot will be to finally fall prey to these rulers, lick their feets and eventually end up as naught whose magnification they are today.
I just hope you can think this through and be so sure of where your allegiance lies because you will never be able to beat those whose morals, light, and right cannot be tampered with by those whose souls are bought.
Be Smart for your future and not just your deceptive safety or pocket!
Think this through.
Thanks for reading.
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Friday, 4 April 2014
What They Won’t Tell You: Why We Protested, Got Arrested And Will Of Course Protest Again #NISMurder
Over 17 Nigerians died. They died due to the negligence and greed of Abba Moro. Abba Moro is yet to be prosecuted and we are here to remind Nigerians that 17 people died.
They will of course try to discredit us. They might send down thugs to start a screaming fit within our lines. They might even start a fight or two so their police and civil security men to intimidate, harass, and possibly arrest us. They will do anything they can to take attention from what matters: that greed and negligence resulted in the death of over 17 of our comrades.
They won’t tell you that 20 people died in this same exercise in 2008 & Abba Moro was warned by the board and Immigration to postpone the exams so as to prepare adequately and avoid casualties. They won’t tell you that he refused to spread the exercise to universities and polytechnics to avoid the crowd. They won’t tell you that he knew all the venues were above capacity. They won’t tell you that he insisted on awarding this contract to Drexel Technologies LTD, a company that hasn’t filed returns since 1994, a company that benefited at least N693,000,000 from this exercise, a company that has ties to the minister himself!
Instead, they will write in the papers and claim we are sponsored by the opposition. That we are trying to stir up trouble. That we are doing it to get popular. If these accusations didn’t come up, this would no longer be Nigeria. What they won’t tell you is the hours we spent sending emails, DMs and SMS organising what time and date worked for most. They won’t tell you of the hours spent under the sun arguing about price, watching carpenters build coffins from scratch in Kugbo.
The won’t tell you that we are just Nigerians who only want the rule of law to be applied. And we don’t ask for much: the prosecution of the Minister of Interior Mr. Abba Moro for murder.
They won’t tell you that P.A donated N1,000.00 J.O donated N12,000.00 and a further N30,000.00. They won’t tell you that M.Y donated N10,000.00 F.H donated N5,500.00 K.A, M.A donated donated N1,000.00 Q.A donated N1,000.00 S.A donated N1,000.00 A.M donated N10,000.00 A.S donated N3000.00 D,O donated N1000.00, S.B donated N1,00.oo J.A N1,000.00 and we are still raising money for next week’s protest.
They won’t tell you we spent N7,000.00 last week on paint, N2,000.00 on transportation, N60,000.00 on coffins (N6,000.00 per coffin), N5,000.00 for transport (from town to Kugbo twice) and N4,500.00 to deliver the coffins to Moro’s place, N7,000.00 on two buckets of paint (oil and emulsion) or that we took our lunch hour and sacrificed personal time to make this happen.
They also won’t tell you that we aren’t doing this just for those who died or got injured. Only the protesters can tell you why we did this, and why we won’t stop until we get justice…
We are doing this because on the 15th of March it wasn’t us but on the next recruitment exercise, it could be any one of us. We are doing this because we want to live in a just and equitable society and we can’t achieve that until government stops rewarding the greedy and incompetent. We are protesting to remind you that over 17 people died because of the greed of a few. And we should all stand up until justice is served.
We were arrested yesterday according to what one of the officers called “order from the Minister” but were released about six hours later. We were moved between the Civil Defence (NSCDC) to Police to the State Security Service (SSS) but if all of the people who arrested us yesterday learned anything at all, it is that they must now know we are undeterred and undaunted. Let it be known and let it be clear, blackmail and intimidation cannot stop us. Only the sack and prosecution of Abba Moro can get us thinking of stopping while Drexel Technologies and all their cronies must be made to pay for what they did to fellow Nigerians and comrades on the 15th of March, 2014.
Amandla Awethu!!! We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. Amandla Awethu!!! #NISMurder
PS: We will in due time share details around our arrests. We should at this time thank all our friends who kept the heat on. If we had any doubts about our collective struggle, the show of support was so overwhelming it drowned every doubt. We are all in this together.
They will of course try to discredit us. They might send down thugs to start a screaming fit within our lines. They might even start a fight or two so their police and civil security men to intimidate, harass, and possibly arrest us. They will do anything they can to take attention from what matters: that greed and negligence resulted in the death of over 17 of our comrades.
They won’t tell you that 20 people died in this same exercise in 2008 & Abba Moro was warned by the board and Immigration to postpone the exams so as to prepare adequately and avoid casualties. They won’t tell you that he refused to spread the exercise to universities and polytechnics to avoid the crowd. They won’t tell you that he knew all the venues were above capacity. They won’t tell you that he insisted on awarding this contract to Drexel Technologies LTD, a company that hasn’t filed returns since 1994, a company that benefited at least N693,000,000 from this exercise, a company that has ties to the minister himself!
Instead, they will write in the papers and claim we are sponsored by the opposition. That we are trying to stir up trouble. That we are doing it to get popular. If these accusations didn’t come up, this would no longer be Nigeria. What they won’t tell you is the hours we spent sending emails, DMs and SMS organising what time and date worked for most. They won’t tell you of the hours spent under the sun arguing about price, watching carpenters build coffins from scratch in Kugbo.
The won’t tell you that we are just Nigerians who only want the rule of law to be applied. And we don’t ask for much: the prosecution of the Minister of Interior Mr. Abba Moro for murder.
They won’t tell you that P.A donated N1,000.00 J.O donated N12,000.00 and a further N30,000.00. They won’t tell you that M.Y donated N10,000.00 F.H donated N5,500.00 K.A, M.A donated donated N1,000.00 Q.A donated N1,000.00 S.A donated N1,000.00 A.M donated N10,000.00 A.S donated N3000.00 D,O donated N1000.00, S.B donated N1,00.oo J.A N1,000.00 and we are still raising money for next week’s protest.
They won’t tell you we spent N7,000.00 last week on paint, N2,000.00 on transportation, N60,000.00 on coffins (N6,000.00 per coffin), N5,000.00 for transport (from town to Kugbo twice) and N4,500.00 to deliver the coffins to Moro’s place, N7,000.00 on two buckets of paint (oil and emulsion) or that we took our lunch hour and sacrificed personal time to make this happen.
They also won’t tell you that we aren’t doing this just for those who died or got injured. Only the protesters can tell you why we did this, and why we won’t stop until we get justice…
We are doing this because on the 15th of March it wasn’t us but on the next recruitment exercise, it could be any one of us. We are doing this because we want to live in a just and equitable society and we can’t achieve that until government stops rewarding the greedy and incompetent. We are protesting to remind you that over 17 people died because of the greed of a few. And we should all stand up until justice is served.
We were arrested yesterday according to what one of the officers called “order from the Minister” but were released about six hours later. We were moved between the Civil Defence (NSCDC) to Police to the State Security Service (SSS) but if all of the people who arrested us yesterday learned anything at all, it is that they must now know we are undeterred and undaunted. Let it be known and let it be clear, blackmail and intimidation cannot stop us. Only the sack and prosecution of Abba Moro can get us thinking of stopping while Drexel Technologies and all their cronies must be made to pay for what they did to fellow Nigerians and comrades on the 15th of March, 2014.
Amandla Awethu!!! We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. Amandla Awethu!!! #NISMurder
PS: We will in due time share details around our arrests. We should at this time thank all our friends who kept the heat on. If we had any doubts about our collective struggle, the show of support was so overwhelming it drowned every doubt. We are all in this together.
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Omojuwa arrested
Social media activist, Japheth Omojuwa assaulted and arrested in Abuja alongside other protesters by men of NSCDC as they protest the stamped of applicants of the NIS recruitment exercise
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Attracting Real Opportunities (1)
My Mentor once said…
I am worried about a trend in Nigeria. There is so much emphasis on money at the expense of ideas. So much emphasis on faith at the expense of hard work. And so much emphasis on hope at the expense of concerted action. Realistically, those who are successful have learned to balance ideas and money, faith and hard work, hope and action.
Personally, I will also say that… I am worried about a trend in my generation. There is so much pursuit of “Grab Opportunities” that we leave our abilities and bury our affinities all in the claim that they can’t thrive in the land where all we think about is survival.
Truthfully, Nigeria is a country full of opportunities, but full of a chase for “grabbed opportunities” and this overtime amounts to massive frustration because only a few rightly placed ones hit them. Those who chase and hit “earned opportunities” are those who make their pursuit an overlapping subset of their abilities, their affinities and then opportunity comes rolling to make it a complete tricycle, meaning opportunity comes chasing.
This reminds me of the story of a regional manager in a major bank in this country, whose comfort in her “grabbed opportunity” was evident and one day he eventually got laid off after a major restructuring during the economic recession. The real problem now was that he didn’t know what to do even with a whopping N12 million at hand, so like every other typical Nigerian, He chased after the trending business the environment was investing in. In 10 months, the business was about folding up all because the world had moved on to the next so called opportunity.
The question for you today is…
What do you chase after, grabbed or earned opportunity? When you earn an opportunity, it sticks and even proffers better ones ahead, but when it is grabbed, it finds every way possible to leave.
Be Smart! Think about this…
Thanks for reading through.
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I am Steven Haastrup – The Executive Director of StartUp Nigeria, a StartUp Management Consultant, a Public Speaker and Writer
He tweets @StevenHaastrup
I am worried about a trend in Nigeria. There is so much emphasis on money at the expense of ideas. So much emphasis on faith at the expense of hard work. And so much emphasis on hope at the expense of concerted action. Realistically, those who are successful have learned to balance ideas and money, faith and hard work, hope and action.
Personally, I will also say that… I am worried about a trend in my generation. There is so much pursuit of “Grab Opportunities” that we leave our abilities and bury our affinities all in the claim that they can’t thrive in the land where all we think about is survival.
Truthfully, Nigeria is a country full of opportunities, but full of a chase for “grabbed opportunities” and this overtime amounts to massive frustration because only a few rightly placed ones hit them. Those who chase and hit “earned opportunities” are those who make their pursuit an overlapping subset of their abilities, their affinities and then opportunity comes rolling to make it a complete tricycle, meaning opportunity comes chasing.
This reminds me of the story of a regional manager in a major bank in this country, whose comfort in her “grabbed opportunity” was evident and one day he eventually got laid off after a major restructuring during the economic recession. The real problem now was that he didn’t know what to do even with a whopping N12 million at hand, so like every other typical Nigerian, He chased after the trending business the environment was investing in. In 10 months, the business was about folding up all because the world had moved on to the next so called opportunity.
The question for you today is…
What do you chase after, grabbed or earned opportunity? When you earn an opportunity, it sticks and even proffers better ones ahead, but when it is grabbed, it finds every way possible to leave.
Be Smart! Think about this…
Thanks for reading through.
(Don’t go off this page without sharing this article on the social media. It might just be all a mutual friend needs. It’s just a click away)
I am Steven Haastrup – The Executive Director of StartUp Nigeria, a StartUp Management Consultant, a Public Speaker and Writer
He tweets @StevenHaastrup
Youth Inclusion In Governance: Presented to the National Conference by Rethink Nigeria
Introduction
Global explosion in knowledge and social consciousness has enhanced the capacity of Nigerian Youths. However, their ability to utilize these assets effectively to drive national transformation would depend on the leadership opportunities available to them. According to an independent research by the British Council, by 2030; “Youth not oil, will be Nigeria’s greatest asset”. However, the way Nigeria defines the Youth and their place in the leadership of this nation is fundamental to Youth political representation and inclusion.
The concept of Youth as leaders of tomorrow has constricted a very important social category to the political fringe and reduced a demographic majority to political minority. This needs to change. This position document, amongst other things, seeks to advance an agenda that will enable the Nigerian Youth scale the wall of exclusion in leadership and governance.
Why Nigerian Youth?
The Nigerian Youth is easily a demographic majority considering an estimated population of 68 million Nigerian Youths. Put in context, this is twice the population of Ghana; more than the population of South Africa and bigger than the population of the United Kingdom. If the Nigerian Youth population were to be a nation, it would be the fourth largest country in Africa and 19th in the world. By sheer numerical strength, it would therefore be a major country.
However, despite the foregoing, the Nigerian Youth has since our nation’s return to democratic rule in 1999 been kept on the wings and fringes of leadership. By the position of this document, we refuse to see the Nigerian Youth as merely a representation of tomorrow’s leadership but a distinct social category of people who are educated, competent and prepared for the task of today’s leadership. A few examples of our national history buttress the fact that when given the opportunity, the Nigerian Youth possesses the capacity to lead and with distinction.
Shehu Shagari
- Federal Legislator at 30
- Minister at 35
M.T. Mbu
- Minister at 25
- High Commissioner to the United Kingdom at 26
Richard Akinjide
- Minister of Education at 32
Maitama Sule
- Oil Minister at 29
Yakubu Gowon
- Head of State at 32
Audu Ogbe
- Minister at 35
More than half of the Balewa cabinet were 40 years and under.
Our Position
In the light of the above, we believe that democracy signifies the representation of people in government. Because it is also a game of numbers, representation in a democracy is expected to mirror the demographic composition of the population. By this understanding, we wish to affirm that not only is Youth a demographic majority in Nigeria but also, a distinct social category and as such, ought to be given its rightful representation in the leadership of this nation just as gender has attained recognition as a distinct social category.
While we understand that “Youth” in itself, as is the case with gender, is not a credential for leadership, for us at Rethink Nigeria, youth in this context relates to credible and competent young Nigerians between the ages of 18-40. Whereas the National Youth Policy considers Youth as young Nigerians aged between 18-35, we advocate for a rethink of this age policy to accommodate more Nigerians in the light of our socio-economic realities. This has been done before especially with the example in 2011, of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWIN) Business Plan competition where the age of Youth was reviewed to create room for more Nigerians between the age of 18 and 40.
We therefore propose to the National Conference, the consideration and adoption of a 30 percent representation of Nigerian Youth in all political appointments at federal, state and local government levels irrespective of the political party in power, beginning with the next electoral dispensation in 2015.
SIGNED
Ohimai Godwin Amaize
Convening Volunteer
Umar Ahmed Shehu
Deputy Convening Volunteer
Anthony Ehilebo
Volunteer Secretary
For:
RETHINK NIGERIA
ABOUT US
Rethink Nigeria is an ideas-driven
movement of young professionals and intellectuals who are card-carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Comprising young party members between the age of 18 and 40, the group is aimed at spearheading advocacy towards realizing the following objectives:
Promote the politics of ideas and intellectual participation in politics.
Advocate for 30 percent youth representation in political appointments into public office at Federal, State and Local Government levels.
Membership is open to all card-carrying youth members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who share our vision.
Rethink Nigeria is officially affiliated to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through the office of the National Youth Leader.
Global explosion in knowledge and social consciousness has enhanced the capacity of Nigerian Youths. However, their ability to utilize these assets effectively to drive national transformation would depend on the leadership opportunities available to them. According to an independent research by the British Council, by 2030; “Youth not oil, will be Nigeria’s greatest asset”. However, the way Nigeria defines the Youth and their place in the leadership of this nation is fundamental to Youth political representation and inclusion.
The concept of Youth as leaders of tomorrow has constricted a very important social category to the political fringe and reduced a demographic majority to political minority. This needs to change. This position document, amongst other things, seeks to advance an agenda that will enable the Nigerian Youth scale the wall of exclusion in leadership and governance.
Why Nigerian Youth?
The Nigerian Youth is easily a demographic majority considering an estimated population of 68 million Nigerian Youths. Put in context, this is twice the population of Ghana; more than the population of South Africa and bigger than the population of the United Kingdom. If the Nigerian Youth population were to be a nation, it would be the fourth largest country in Africa and 19th in the world. By sheer numerical strength, it would therefore be a major country.
However, despite the foregoing, the Nigerian Youth has since our nation’s return to democratic rule in 1999 been kept on the wings and fringes of leadership. By the position of this document, we refuse to see the Nigerian Youth as merely a representation of tomorrow’s leadership but a distinct social category of people who are educated, competent and prepared for the task of today’s leadership. A few examples of our national history buttress the fact that when given the opportunity, the Nigerian Youth possesses the capacity to lead and with distinction.
Shehu Shagari
- Federal Legislator at 30
- Minister at 35
M.T. Mbu
- Minister at 25
- High Commissioner to the United Kingdom at 26
Richard Akinjide
- Minister of Education at 32
Maitama Sule
- Oil Minister at 29
Yakubu Gowon
- Head of State at 32
Audu Ogbe
- Minister at 35
More than half of the Balewa cabinet were 40 years and under.
Our Position
In the light of the above, we believe that democracy signifies the representation of people in government. Because it is also a game of numbers, representation in a democracy is expected to mirror the demographic composition of the population. By this understanding, we wish to affirm that not only is Youth a demographic majority in Nigeria but also, a distinct social category and as such, ought to be given its rightful representation in the leadership of this nation just as gender has attained recognition as a distinct social category.
While we understand that “Youth” in itself, as is the case with gender, is not a credential for leadership, for us at Rethink Nigeria, youth in this context relates to credible and competent young Nigerians between the ages of 18-40. Whereas the National Youth Policy considers Youth as young Nigerians aged between 18-35, we advocate for a rethink of this age policy to accommodate more Nigerians in the light of our socio-economic realities. This has been done before especially with the example in 2011, of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWIN) Business Plan competition where the age of Youth was reviewed to create room for more Nigerians between the age of 18 and 40.
We therefore propose to the National Conference, the consideration and adoption of a 30 percent representation of Nigerian Youth in all political appointments at federal, state and local government levels irrespective of the political party in power, beginning with the next electoral dispensation in 2015.
SIGNED
Ohimai Godwin Amaize
Convening Volunteer
Umar Ahmed Shehu
Deputy Convening Volunteer
Anthony Ehilebo
Volunteer Secretary
For:
RETHINK NIGERIA
ABOUT US
Rethink Nigeria is an ideas-driven
movement of young professionals and intellectuals who are card-carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Comprising young party members between the age of 18 and 40, the group is aimed at spearheading advocacy towards realizing the following objectives:
Promote the politics of ideas and intellectual participation in politics.
Advocate for 30 percent youth representation in political appointments into public office at Federal, State and Local Government levels.
Membership is open to all card-carrying youth members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who share our vision.
Rethink Nigeria is officially affiliated to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through the office of the National Youth Leader.
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