By Dr. Ahmed Adamu
The recent proclamation by the Nigerian president about his age
constraint has justified more on the inevitability of youth participation in
governance. At an old age, Mr President cannot do so many things he is expected
to do, but he can make use of the excessive vigour in the young people to move
his administration faster.
President Buhari was reported to have confessed that sometimes his age
can get in the way of getting the job done, and that he wished he became
president at a younger age. He was perceived to have missed his active energy
when he was a young governor. He said, at the age of 72, there is limit to what
he can do.
Mr President does not have to worry about his limitations as long as he
knows how to make best use of the young people in his administration. The
current young generation have more energy than he had as a young governor, and
therefore he can balance it up by bringing young people very close to his
administration.
There have been huge expectation on Mr President, and if he has to rely
on the low pace energy of the old, he could not catch up half way to the expectations.
We understand that governance needs careful thoughts and plan, but young people
can think and plan carefully as well. Young people are active partners of
today’s progress. Mr President should reckon young people as partners not only
as children.
The young people are the ones to live and immortalise his legacies, and
without them being drawn closer, his legacy will go down with him. The legacies
of Ahmadu Sardauna live in our time because of his legacy of empowering the
then young people, who as a result became leaders of this nation. What legacy
is Buhari preparing to live behind? The answer lies in the youth. We want to
see many younger Buharis in our generation.
We as young people, we will continue to support his administration in
any way possible, because we are equally responsible for the success of this
administration.
Ahmed Adamu
Chairperson/President, Commonwealth Youth Council
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