 asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin asyin  to even explain. Today over 60% of our population is made up of young people who have all it takes to identify, deploy and sustain solutions to emerging global problems, as well as to compete at the peak of any endeavor, anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, they have been denied every opportunity to be and show the best God has blessed our country with. Isn't it rather sad that we boost of zero results despite the intimidating potentials and enormous resources and abundant wealth that we are blessed with as a nation. Today, we prefer to celebrate our youths from the other side of the divide. How do we keep smiling face knowing that we import everything from toothpicks to even things we can source from our backyard? Anyways, history is filled with examples of individuals, groups, institutions and nations around the world who have had to go through terrible experiences and situations that would have wiped their entire existence yet had to find ways to stay above failure. More interesting is how they have deployed principles and proven strategies repeatedly to achieve remarkable success. I have been around enough to know that any success or result can be duplicated provided there is the willingness to learn and apply the same steps and strategies that brought about the result in the first place. Success leaves clues and all proven principles of success are encoded in history and other people's results. But with all the recent happenings and events in Nigeria on daily basis, one will begin to wonder why it has been a difficult task to learn from history. History gives us the opportunity to learn from past mistakes. It helps us to understand the many reasons why people may behave the way they do. As a result, it helps us to become more compassionate as people are more impartial as decision makers. I remember my first trip outside Nigeria. I couldn't wait to come back to share and practice most of the things that I greatly admired in those countries like obeying traffic signals. But it was dashed because there has been no good route to even practice what I saw in those countries. I looked forward to bragging about the best schools and world-class hospitals being situated in Nigeria. But alas, those are dreams and fantasies I am yet to wake up from. Having been to a couple of countries, seeing how these countries are putting visible systems that directly affect the well-being of the citizens, it is obvious that Nigeria has a generation of leaders who are heartless and completely insensitive to the plight of the people. But again, you wonder who is really listening when the call of history is sounding so loud. You know, we must always say, this is Nigeria. We don't want to give people a chance. You can imagine, I ran for political position. I was about 40 at the time, in 2019. They call me a young politician. When am I going to start calling me an old politician? I see like 50-something years old saying we're the youth. I watched something today and they were saying we're the youth. I was asking for a presidential candidate. And I said I know this guy now. I went to check his thing. It's like 56. So maybe it's 36. You know the way things used to change. Maybe it can be 36 at some point. I heard in legal states, 20 years automatically taking from you. Like you are 29 now. And everybody is adding 9. So we refuse to pay attention to our history. Funny, I think there's a problem we have chosen not to face in Nigeria. And that is we're actually not fighting the older generation. We are fighting our own generation, paid by the older generation. We're not fighting the older generation. That's the honest truth. So we're actually not fighting the older generation. If those people refuse to collect the peanuts that they are collecting. It's not peanuts. It's buying housing. It's not peanuts. They are doing well. Even you cannot ask for their account number. They are doing very well. They are doing very well. So they are the ones that turn against us. And that has always been the problem of the youth in Nigeria. Now if you go back into the 30s and 40s, the youth had a united front. And they stood for an idea. But now to pull that, they will say, go away Joe, who is doing it? Which of you can do it? If a 40-year-old says he wants to be governor of Lagos State, I know what will happen now. His friends will laugh at him. In short, let me tell you, go and sleep that night. But we are hoping Mr. Makore, you know you are popular now. I want to add, you see, I made a video. I think it was after the second this thing, the one where the police arrested me and when they beat me up and out. So I made a video. We saw about two to three, two to four youth talking. Oh, the government is this. The government is that. And one of the politicians comes and then says, he calls one of them. I says, they call me. I have 150 million and I am not using. And then that one says, no. In front of everybody says, no. The policeman throws the card on the floor, leaves. The guys, they say, no, no, no. Everybody left and framed. It picks up the card. I didn't show what it was going to do with the card or not. There is a curse. It's a moniker. I call it a moniker. And people are quick to sell their conscience. People are quick to sell their conscience such that it now is very difficult. When some of us are saying, we just want, we just want everyone to have a level playing ground. It's not too much to ask. It's not too much to ask. It's not too much to ask. And you now continue to wonder whether why is there so much insecurity, so much unemployment. Is it that difficult for a country that is so blessed? It's not. But to find out that the youth are working against the youth. The youth are working against the youth for the, I don't know what to call them, for those that have spent all of their lives, those that spent their youth. They are youths. Exactly. You know what I even find most painful? When you have programs or seminars that have been on or virtual seminars, and then they bring the people that have destroyed this country to come and teach us how to develop this country. Exactly. I don't know. I see some people. And again, that's also where we find some religious spaces where because somebody is now an acclaimed politician in court, and then they are inviting to say, is a man of God. Is a man of God. Is a man of God. Because it can open Bible. See, that's what I was saying. You know? It now come an open Bible and then now pray and all these things. The atrocities that they commit in the name of God in this country. I'm sure God will be like, it's insane because I know about a particular country in Africa where at some point they closed down 6,000 churches. Closed down 6,000 churches and focused on their ideology on what makes them unique. They focused on it and while everybody in the world was like nonsense, antichrist, blah, blah, blah, blah, today that country is one of the most developing countries in the continent. And they don't bloody care about you. So at that point they could not set rules and guidelines. You want to do, you play your church, you want to do anything. You have to align to the guidelines that they have said. The other day I was on clubhouse and then somebody was giving an instance how their house where they were living there is a mosque in front and there is a church by the side. So at some point the church guys came in later and then mounted very big speakers. Earlier on the mosque we were just doing it quietly inside where they were going and they mounted very big speakers and it was facing the mosque and then the mosque eventually got their own money raised their own speaker and it was facing them. Do you know what noise pollution does? In developed countries just play music and increase the volume in your room. A police will come and give you a ticket come and give you a ticket for noise pollution. So I really think that this country a lot needs to get in place religious sectors all these people. Young people also need to understand let me also point out that you see the answers is also something that I learned something that is very remarkable since I was born. That's the first time I saw young people unite together for the very first time it never mattered where you are from it never mattered what religion you were coming from it never mattered your ethnic group it's all only mattered about one thing which is what Debo said a level playing ground for everyone and right now they are forgetting they are forgetting because you cannot see most of these young people who are agitating let's go to war let's go to war let's go to war and these guys most of the people who are saying let's go to war don't really know what war is. I've always said this to people that always make this statement or people that are within these sectors or being paid by you know now those that bankrolled and I've always said this to them I say if you have 100 million and all your friends do not have money you have less than 20 million because you will help this one help this one I say but if all of us in Nigeria have 20 million nobody needs to help any body you are fine it's greed basic human greed that and all of this inadequacies all this poverty this unemployment this lack of basic amenities is because there are weapons as well there are weapons used for the politicians used for the politicians to continue to to control this fear look at now there are some campaigns going on now against 2023 already going on that will provide food food and what's the food palaties from covid so I mean why should that be a topic of discourse now that you will be providing food you will provide food come that's time why can't they have food now what happened that they've not had food before now so again this is a very important issue it's only somebody who is alive that will be alive to eat food in 2023 alright guys we thank you for your attention why the program lasted we hope our conversation resonated with you little drops of what they say make a mighty ocean don't forget the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook at plus tv africa hashtag the advocate ng and on twitter and instagram at plus tv africa hashtag the advocate ng to catch up with our previous broadcast go to plus tv africa.com the advocate ng don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel plus tv africa join us next week same time on this station let's keep advocating for a better society see you next time 5 topical issues no holds bar for me it's not knowledge that's lacking it's that greed it's that mentality where you feel you deserve to take your own and take it infinitely and let everybody else just manage however they want we're almost becoming hardwired to try and cheat I would suggest that we begin to hold our leaders accountable there was a time in this country when things actually work I don't think that any organization should be above the law one of the challenges we have in this country is about governance across the board does it really affect us in Nigeria I don't know what we can do if the system is already corrupted we've been warned as a continent of the influx of the Chinese if you don't repay your debt they will just colonize you