Senegalese President: Nigerian Youths Only Interested In Being PAs To Politicians – Sowore

 New Jersey, United States– Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate representing the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 elections, said Nigerian youths are only interested in being Personal Assistants to Presidents and governors and not in attaining a higher authority position.

Sowore who spoke from New Jersey in the United States (USA), said Nigerian youths need to become more daring in politics to replicate what happened in Senegal.

Sowore stated this during an interview on Channels Television, discussing the inauguration of Senegal’s 44-year-old president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Tuesday, April 2nd.

“Our young people are concerned with doing what I call tag-along. They are more interested in becoming special assistants to governors or senators. I have not seen that clear aspiration on the part of our young people to become leaders.”

Sowore said Nigerian youths need to become more daring in politics to be able to replicate the new dispensation in Senegal.

“You cannot be young, mission-driven, and a visionary and go and hide your bushel under some of these old people who have no idea of how to even operate a phone,”

“Youthfulness is also important in the sense that you need leaders that are alert and capable and responsive and do not have to spend half of the time in the hospital,” Sowore said.

According to him, the youths need to “take power” and not wait for any law to make that happen.

“You take power,” he said. “Nobody should give power to you by any constitutional amendment or law”.