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Fayemi Tells Youth To Go Beyond “Twitter Revolution”
- Fayemi has told Nigerian youths to go beyond twitter revolution and participate actively in politics.
Nigerian youths have been urged to go beyond the “Twitter revolution” and take up political roles if they want to effect change in the country.
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria made this plea at the National Security and Peace Symposium organised to mark the 45th birthday of a member of the house of representatives from Oyo State, Shina Peller on Friday.
Fayemi while speaking in Ibadan, advised the youths to participate in “retail politics” in their respective wards, just like he had decided to do.
The Ekiti State Governor said
“If we want to make a difference, our young ones cannot just be doing Twitter revolution. They have to be on the ground, they have to be in their wards, in the constituencies.”
“They have to play retail politics with the people in order to really connect themselves beyond just writing 140 letter word on Twitter or Facebook.
“I stupidly decided that I was going to go into politics rather than stick to my academia which would have been a safer place to be than politics. But I am sure all of us know that you can affect more lives and people in politics.
“That is what Shina has done. He removed himself from just being a paper-based politician by being in the midst of the people.”
The Dean of Multi-Disciplinary Studies at the University of Ibadan, Isaac Albert, on the occasion, argued that insecurity has persisted because too many issues are being handled by the federal government.
Albert said, “the problem here is we are not allowing traditional rulers to play their roles. And for as long as this continues, our problems will continue to increase. We have refused to allow local government to function.”
“We see our president in Abuja trying to explain what belongs to local government. The problem he is struggling to solve in Abuja are problems that traditional rulers can even allocate to their chiefs to deal with. So, if you take local problems to Abuja, then you have Abuja saturated with unnecessary problems.
“To deal with these problems, we need a framework of community engagement. If you take this framework to the local level, many of the problems we have in Nigeria today will be resolved.”
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