President of Commonwealth Youth Council, Ahmed Adamu, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to
balance his old age with young people in his administration.
According to him, the recent proclamation by the Nigerian
president about his age constraint has justified the inevitability of youth
participation in governance.
A statement Adamu issued on Wednesday noted that at an old
age, the President cannot do so many things he is expected to do, but that he
can make use of the excessive vigour in the young people to move his
administration faster.
It reads: “President Buhari was reported to have confessed
that sometimes his age can get in the way of getting the job done, and that he
wished he became president at a younger age. He was perceived to have missed
his active energy when he was a young governor. He said, at the age of 72,
there is limit to what he can do.
“Mr President does not have to worry about his limitations
as long as he knows how to make best use of the young people in his
administration. The current young generation have more energy than he had as a
young governor, and therefore he can balance it up by bringing young people
very close to his administration.
“There have been huge expectation on Mr President, and if he
has to rely on the low pace energy of the old, he could not catch up half way
to the expectations. We understand that governance needs careful thoughts and
plan, but young people can think and plan carefully as well. Young people are
active partners of today’s progress. Mr President should reckon young people as
partners not only as children.
“The young people are the ones to live and immortalise his
legacies, and without them being drawn closer, his legacy will go down with
him. The legacies of Ahmadu Sardauna live in our time because of his legacy of
empowering the then young people, who as a result became leaders of this
nation. What legacy is Buhari preparing to live behind? The answer lies in the
youth. We want to see many younger Buharis in our generation
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