 You're welcome back. We had to take that break for the news and We're back to discussing what we were we started with earlier on We wanted to save the letter which we started this year letter of Basangio former president of Basangio for last but I guess kept referring to it even When it was not directly asked because it's like the most trending thing nowadays By oh you have read that letter. What was your general take on that letter? very interesting letter and Like you said at the top of the program At this time the letter wasn't addressed to usually the letters that have been addressed to a sitting president But this time the letter wasn't addressed to the current president Rather the letter is addressed Not even okay generally to Nigerians or specifically to young Nigerians and I thought that president of Basangio made a painstaking effort to go back into history I Believe he recognizes that There's still a lot of the things that happened in history in our country that are influencing current approaches and Responses and he made an attempt in my view to try to disconnect Without asking people to forget about those things, but it was saying look there has to be a point in our history where we move on And where we give people Opportunities and chances based on their competence Especially in the political space because this is done in the private sector, right? But in the political space People often bring back Everything that was said by somebody or done by somebody 30 40 50 years ago, and I think he was trying to to get the younger generation to See things differently and if I recall the phrase in the letter he says don't inherit your father's enemies Yeah, yes, he said you go and make your own friends In other words, you take decisions based on your perception, you know Your analysis and your perception not because your father told you don't talk to buy a low-key When you see young will come in run away. Oh, any time which is Yeah, just just if I'm waiting I think basically this is a Call of that later and of course it's get was getting people prepare to vote in the next election Yeah, there were there was a particular place where he tried to tell the youth that you are not too young to Vi You're not too young to change the political landscape You're not too young to take those decisions because he started mentioning where he when he took part he was in his 30s and He left power as a military administration administrator at 42 he started in his 30s and at 42 He left then he came back as a civilian president and when he got to about 60 he left he left the political scene so He mentioned go on he mentioned a few other people that took the reins of power as very young Individuals so it is not something new that we even needed a bill for not too young to run Because a lot of people have been at the hem of affairs at that young age So what are the youths waiting for but our concern right now is a lot of people are discrediting that letter Not a lot of people the the party is concerned Especially the APC and then also the PDP and I was saying that of Abbas and Joe doesn't have the moral Compass the moral standing rather to write such a letter that he's maybe suffering from amnesia or something What is your own? Say to that. We also feel that he cannot write a letter of that nature. We cannot advise the way he advised Well, you know that in politics people will try to maximize what works for them And when it doesn't work for them, they try to discredit it and I say that with all sense of responsibility That's the nature of politics First of all, you recall that when the political parties are chosen their candidates Actually, all of them went to see president of Arsenal, you know, I Even you you you could see that they went to see him Because they believe that he counts for something. Okay Otherwise they would have gone to see him Secondly He is not just I think increasingly in the country. He has his own following, you know And his following is especially where it matters, you know, the political elite The same for the some of the political elite are dispelting his letter now But a large you remember when the central bank announced that they were going to redesign the Naira. Yeah Every single major political party said the passenger should be on one of the Naira notes Yes, yes, that discussion. So okay, so if he doesn't have to wait Or if he doesn't have a why why would they be saying that, you know, uh, thirdly Internationally a passenger is reckoned with and You know, any political figure in Nigeria who on who, you know, tries to diminish passenger's clout Internationally is not going to have it easy because he has the airs of key Key key leaders in the world. He has their airs. So Having said all of that, I think yes, he's just one person. He's just expressing his opinion and I I shared the view of Dr. Emotionally Who are guests today who said look, he should have just been better to just say we serve we respect you You're entitled to your opinion. Are you just move on? You know, not not start trying to dismantle the argument he made in his letter because I think that Basically what he's saying and many people in Nigeria will agree in principle that we need to move forward And we need to make new friends and we need to keep history to guide us But not always let that history determine what we do in any society. This will be the general Philosophie and I think that's what he was trying to say, but perhaps there's this trident resistance Because that letter whether we like it or not has also tended to us in dusting one And I think that is actually the issue Not not everything else, you know, which is I see that about even the okay I totally want to agree with by, you know, the letter is generally Get to it moving forward, you know in one of the paragraphs he mentioned how that the three Major candidates had come to visit him and for every one of them that had come to visit him They had said they want to bring Nigeria to the point where he was at when he was president from 1999 And he was of the opinion that he doesn't think Nigeria needs to go back to where it was by 1999 We should be moving forward and even if you wanted to take it back to then The population is no longer the same technology has changed. There's been a lot of movement towards the future We should be looking at how to meet up with the people in the more developed climes And that was very exciting for me and also to drive on the point where that I said about, you know He looking forwards. He also mentioned How that the youths are not too young to run That is a big controversial for me because He was president for eight years and he took another president to come and you know Bring the bill of the not too young to run and pass it into law Why I say that that is a big controversial for me is because there's a lot of talk around it People has have politicized that statement that bill It is now a point that people a switch that people turn on when they want to get the Votes and the consideration and the love of the younger Nigerians, but as well that is okay It's also politics that is playing around with stuff But then moving Nigeria forward is beyond one man And he also made sure that he mentioned that stand up therefore encouraging young Nigerians To use the power that is already in their hands one of the paragraphs he also also mentioned that Use the power that is already in your hands if no one has said it I'm saying it today as a representative of the young Nigerians These men these older people who claim to be in a clenching so strongly To Nigerian political power are actually afraid of what we have to offer I mean by us by what we What I mean by that is the young people what we have to offer in the forthcoming 2023 Unfortunately, that is something that a man like a Bassenger has come to realize and he's writing about it And these people vying for presidency. I mean the three a major Candidates except of course for people who has come out rightly to show their alliance with the young Population of Nigeria, but we know all the presidential candidates has actually shown that alliance with the young Nigerians and then we still claim that we are the future of the country and the young Nigerians or The youth at if the future When the future is now it has started. How many young persons are your campaign organization? How many young persons are you considering to work with in the future? How many young persons have come to you for help in one way or another in their political aspirations? Have you helped how many young persons are in your? Whatever, yes. Yeah, but you know there are a lot of young persons in their political campaigns trust me, but How many I'm sorry, how many of these young persons hold In the position where they come towards and change position Excuse me, I'm sorry Young people in a place that is able to earn you the favor of whoever else is following this But not enough to give the person the power to make changes to grow to actually get to the point where you are That doesn't that doesn't sit well that doesn't sit well at all and until we begin to realize I'm talking to everybody now We begin to realize and as young people is enough to have people speaking for us and saying give young people the chance Do you have your PVC as a young person? Have you done your own personal analysis? Have you done your own personal research to find out who I should actually really vote? Apart from all the shenanigans that is going on right now. These are questions we need to answer personally for ourselves Yeah, like I was saying there are a lot of people young people in their campaign trade But like you said, how many are in the position of significance because a lot of these media gurus media media Army men I would say that are doing a lot of things in the in the social media and all that Discrediting one person lifting another person. I'm sure all of them are youths But is that the position that there will be to change the the fortunes of Nigeria just staying behind the computer and Responding to tweets here and there and all that the youths will have to take a more significant responsibility But beyond getting the pvcs The youths are you ready to get Into that position and do the needful like now Abbas and Joe has said that when when he came into power for the first time all of them were young You know, you know, the question is whether they're ready or not that means they were ready So one thing is to be given the chance. The second thing is to be ready to take up the responsibility That's that's that's very key to me So when this conversation was to come up earlier beginning of the program, you said if we started to not Give us a final word. Let's let's let's move on the letter has been written We have heard all that the submission of the former president of Nigeria a final word from you to everybody This country is 206 million people and 70% of 206 million people are below the age of 30 So before you start Dismissing or not agreeing with what the former president has said which is mainly focused on young people Remember that demographic and this is who might actually determine who becomes the next president Thank you very much bio. This is where we draw the curtain. Thank you for being a part of the show My name is Nyam Ghul Agadje and my name is Uche Chuku Onado