Mary Akanbi
23rd August, 2025
*By Barr. Maurice Oru Ebam*
_Former National Youth Leader ADC/National Lead ADC Coalition Support Network_
We were told to clap for a National Youth Confab that exists only on paper.
Everything that has come from this Minister of Youths so far
has been cosmetic statements on TV, photo ops for social media, empty promises in glossy speeches.
What we see today is not leadership it is manipulation an attempt to put every Nigerian youth under the armpit of one man choked, suffocated, silenced, and treated like pawns in a dirty political chess game.
Nigerian youths at a time when we expected leadership, we are handed betrayal. At a time when we needed solutions, we were given slogans.
Meanwhile, Nigerian youths are battling unemployment, drug abuse, illiteracy, insecurity, and hunger at a scale never before seen.
We must call things by their names. The Minister of Youths has no results to show. He has no achievement to stand on. He has no capacity to lead failing to deliver no one functional program that addresses these issues.
Let’s not deceive ourselves when they say “youth inclusion,” what they really mean is: “give our loyal boys positions so they can smile for the cameras.”
Every day the Minister of Youths remains in office is another day of betrayal. And every day Nigerian youths stay silent is another day we accept slavery.
The average Nigerian youth today is unemployed, hustling in ride-hailing, selling airtime on the roadside, migrating through deserts and seas, or trapped in drug abuse because the system has abandoned them.
And because Nigerian youths are not slaves to the system, this is a vote of no confidence.
The resignation of the Minister of Youths is the first step.
The restoration of dignity, power, and opportunity to Nigerian youths is the ultimate goal.
