 Takling the council culture craze among the Nigerian youth. Eroda disturbing growing trend among Nigerian youth, particularly the active social media community, is its tendency to ostracize and alienate members of the elite and political class and enforce such ostracization through threats and blackmail in what I consider a toxic case of council culture, which ought to be addressed. Relationship between the Nigerian political class and her young population, particularly people of my generation, have not always been a great one. But much of that appears to have been hampered by the events of the NSAS protest and its ugly unraveling, which remains a sore point in relationship dynamics between the Nigerian political class and her bargain youth population. I think why the youth may have earned their grievances against the Nigerian establishment. The management and ventilation of same requires tact and wisdom. This is one gap which remains agape. Recently, I noticed how a group of Nigerian skit makers were literally hung in the sun to dry for honoring Vice President Yemio Shiba just visit at the state house. Elsewhere, some elite Nigerian nollywood actors were also at the receiving end of public oprobium for daring to visit a former governor of Lagos State, Sinetobola Ahmed Tinibu. Still in the same fashion, some Nigerian celebrities were round-list celebrated on social media for rejecting governor Babaji Desangulu's invitation to a now postponed or cancelled peace work. And just the other day, a reality TV star popularly known as White Money received sticks for joining the governor of Lagos State at a food fest. A common thread that runs through the instances explored above is the Kansu culture mentality added by group thinking, social validation and sometimes outright clout chasing without more. The end game of the performative socio-political behavior is to be seen as being against the establishment to continue to enjoy the approver or face despacities on social media while missing the critical opportunity of engaging at the other end of the social equation to articulate their concerns and even negotiate a stake in the Nigerian power matrix. It surely beggars believe that a Nigerian youth who claims to have a systemically and structurally disadvantage by her elite class does not want to be seen anywhere around them. This makes me wonder how we can be taken seriously at times in our serial complaint. I think it is high time we began to review our methods and perhaps begin to understand that socialization across all segments of the society is an invaluable tool in the power negotiation process. It is highly thinkable that we can have a share of the menu when we are not even at the table. It is particularly infanti and ridiculous when we rob ourselves of the opportunity to have a seat at the table for mass social media validation. Surely the Nigerian youth have a great numerical advantage to rest to power from the current crop of leaders in the context of a democracy but to achieve that we must have to ask ourselves whether we really have interest in doing so or are we losing ground to an influential group within this demography probably more committed to finding the embass of the we versus them mentality for their own primitive, parochial and primordial interests. So this is a serious flak against a Nigerian youth and I don't know how it is received on the platform. I think cancel culture do myopic and to progress and not even in our own best interest is something that we cannot cancel. It's something that has come to stay and is being made easier with the presence of social media or restricted access to the world because people are airing their opinion without paying money so people are going to do that. So cancel culture would easily be canceled. However we can do things differently to help cancel or minimize the impact of cancel culture and that is by us being us and doing the right thing irrespective of how this group of people would react. So if you believe if you are being invited to that club so that place where you think you will be ostracized but you believe you should be there you should trump it by trump I mean trump and just be you and do what you think is right because it's for the greater good of yourself and of course of everyone. So I don't think we can cancel, cancel culture however we can sometimes ignore it as leaders, as people and do what is right irrespective of what public opinion. Thanks. You know someone once said that even if we wanted to I mean this was like a slightly older person in his 50s like mid 50s he said that even if we wanted to take power from the current you know older guys that's speaking to younger people this was during NSAS period right says it's a strategy this is where they go about it and you might go about seats so it's almost like a caterpillar knows that it's going to become a butterfly but if a caterpillar tries to attempt a certain heights it has not been designed and built for right it could destroy itself but eventually it will become a butterfly it's a matter of time so strategy is important and I think this cancel culture comes from wokeness you know woke people and people don't have independent opinion you know I was speaking to I was speaking to someone conversing for feminism I said when was feminism she was blank like she was blank so you don't even know what you are I see a lot of your tweets so you don't even know what is feminism so that means you are following people that believe in it you don't even know what really is it so and it's the bandwagon thinking influencers say something everybody backs that right so like say if it's popular it has to be right exactly so majorities opinion like Jillia said I really can't control your behavior I can't control my response you know we can't control the cancel culture we can't control that if somebody is dumb and then becomes an influencer it's going to be a dumb influencer it doesn't change his thinking but becoming influencers are people that you know their ideology their thought process is flawed they are going to drag a lot of people who do not have independent thinking with them and that's where cancel culture comes in absolutely I feel like the foundation is the lack of critical thinking a lot of people don't think fortunately its assumption is lowest form of knowledge so a lot of people would rather assume a lot of people would rather let others think for them and it goes even beyond the political elites it includes every other thing in life that we do people would rather delegate that aspect of their lives to somebody somewhere and it's even seen across board in religious organizations in every form of organization that you get to find there's that group thinking mentality and if you do not align with what the group says or what the group thinks then you are different and because you are different we have to treat you differently and in process of us treating you differently means that if you are giving someone people that think this way certain benefits because you don't think this way you shouldn't get that benefit that's one way the cancel culture operates another thing is that people don't forgive so I also look at cancel culture from the lack of forgiveness in the sense that so I made a mistake in the past and you have judged me you have condemned me everything that can be said so you believe that everything I have done that's the way it's going to be that's everything I say that's the way it's going to be so you see examples in situations where where certain people have done certain things and then when they come out to give it an opinion that makes sense nobody wants to listen to them they already canceled so it's just it's just still going back to still going back to that part of still going back to the part of you being able to think and also being able to assess situations independent of what has happened in the past totally I agree with you whenever this question comes up what's happened at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ comes to mind I'm speaking about Pontus Pilate said who should I release Barnabas of Barabbas the crowd said Barnabas of Jesus they said Barabbas why? you understand too the crowd may not always be right and I think that's the message from this advocacy so root is up next after this break