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Eweka Palmer Bayagbon, President of Advancement for Youth Development (AYD), has cautioned youths to be weary of old ways of politicians, especially as the 2019 general elections rapidly draw near.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Bayagbon stated this in a chat on Sunday, urging youths to shun acts of vote-selling/vote-buying, and acts tantamount to disrupting the electoral process, while also stressing that youths have distinctive interests and are more inclined to change the old ways.
“A well-established democracy is founded on the premise associated with continuity, as a fundamental political value, in order to maintain a democratic political system that creates stability in the place of chronic instability.
“However, to create this stability, young people should be at the forefront as they can be seen as having distinctive interest and more inclined to change the old ways, more idealistic and focused in their goals and less loyal to the old established tradition,” he stated.
The AYD president further stated that when youths are empowered, they can be key agents for global innovation and development within their various constituent assemblies.
He, however, lamented that presently young people are experiencing a political crisis, which includes the constant manipulation of the political process by a significant faction of the professional political class that marginalizes youth participation in the political process.
He also stated that there is a cult of ignorance in our society which has always been the true reflection of anti-intellectualism that has threaded through our political and cultural life.
“Therefore, the time is now for young people to stand and speak for themselves and cultivate self-belief in their abilities to fully exploit every opportunity at proposing various measures aimed at stabilizing our commitment towards democratic process in 2019, and beyond.
“Subsequently, our survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenges that will surely come from the privileged few couple with their watchdogs that are empowered with fee to air political mechanized tools such as euphemism, lies and possibly using all available forces to deceive, subdue and forcefully make us to accept their old ways and or even pushing hard to make us demand our own enslavement,” he stated.