 All right, joining us this time around to look at the international youth stay and other issues is Ahmed Buhari a politician Many thanks for joining us and plus news now tonight Hi, good evening. Yeah, good evening to you Ahmed. Let's talk about this issue of a political Participation specifically from the angle of the youth star, which is what most people are talking about at this period You have been part of the this course and of course the decision-making process but say in Nigeria when you Tried contesting You know for the last election the presidential election at the last time in your opinion Would you say the average Nigerian youth is actually eager to be part of that circle that wants to take The hems of affairs in Nigeria Yes, most definitely One thing I've always said to everybody is that the young people in this country already I think I think that question sometimes when it comes Across to young people. It's like it's like it's like a degrading question to ask if young people are ready When you look at young people across board in other in other areas of the System you see young people doing extremely very well when you take young people from Nigeria to other countries around the world You see them exhaling better than the rest of their peers around the world, which means that this really Ahmed, can you and you still hear us go ahead? Yes, I can I can hear you Yeah, go ahead Which means very clearly Young people are prepared young people are ready young people know exactly what they're doing But unfortunately, I think when it comes to the political space, we haven't seen young people really You know participate as much as we want them to participate And I think that has to do with their self confidence self determination to believe that they have something to offer My plea to every young person is as it is right now, especially with your political landscape It's important that you get yourself involved get yourself involved in huge numbers regardless of the political party I believe that those political parties are only but Platforms that we can contest with but if we have the if we have good people within those political parties That can actually translate to good policies that could protect the interests of young people Interest of women and hopefully good governance. Okay. Yeah, let's Let me just take it off from one of the things you said about Nigerians not really maybe not really having the confidence In as it to when would you say it's actually related to the fact that the average Nigerian does not really believe in the entity of Nigeria itself That's part of the problems. Unfortunately, you're very correct and and and this is This is one of the areas that we would have to rework our mentality through Because when you see a lot of young people in the country Some people wake up in the morning to tell you very clearly that this is the worst place in the world And they haven't been to anywhere else It is unfair. It is unfortunate for you to actually call your home The only place that you can call your home the only place that recognizes you as a citizen as a first-class To now categorize it as the worst place on earth It doesn't help anybody It doesn't help you and in all in all honesty The rest of the world looks down on you when you when you When you categorize your own home as the worst place on earth. So we must be positive I believe only positivity can beget positivity Very clearly if you push out negative you receive negative. So we must change this mindset We must believe in the project called Nigeria We must believe in the success of the country and in turn we will see all of that play out All right Ahmed now It is such a note that Nigeria actually dropped out by the uh index released by the common wealth Global use development index Nigeria ranked 161st out of 118 world countries meaning that uh, Nigeria's use development is very poor. How do you react to this? Yes, I did read the reports. The reports came out Positioning Nigeria as 161st out of 118 one countries in the world, which means that Things are Terrible in Nigeria, which means that things are at their worst in Nigeria Which means that I could actually be sitting down here and be planning to dodge the bullets look There are problems around the world. There are problems in Nigeria Nigeria definitely doesn't have everything working out the way it should be working out for it But when people talk to you they tell you things like, um Even though they're going to be even if even though even though we have police killings in places like united states Even though the united states reports in 1918 presented itself to show that over 18,500 Murder cases were recorded. You know, it's it's actually more than what we've recorded The killings we've recorded with Boko Haram, but the point still remains that There's no perfect place in the world. There are challenges all over the place And the worst part of all of this is that I haven't seen reports being generated by independent Nigerian Organizations to say this is the reports that shows the youth index or the index index on different issues, whether it be the economy education or welfare for the people in other words, what I'm trying to hit at is that We must be wary of where this Data is coming out from we must be careful to accept some of this data. We must be We must be mindful of the fact that No country who would put this data together would actually want to put itself lower than us or lower than It wants to be itself Which means that we we we must look at all of this all the time and say to ourselves How did we come up with this data? How is Nigeria 161 out of 181? We've been with there's so many countries in the world with wars right now as we speak their bomb blasts going on As we speak their people, you know dying of poverty and things like that You know and I look at the situation and I'm saying to myself I know Nigeria is not perfect But when we go out every day to condemn our country people take that as the indices To determine how bad our situation is and we must stop it. All right. Thank you so much I'm Ahmed Wahary for your time indeed that there is a so much, you know good or goodies that could also come out from Nigeria We do appreciate your time Hello, hope you enjoyed the news Please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button So you get notified about fresh news updates