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Excerpt on: THE ROLE OF YOUTHS IN THE FORTH-COMING ELECTIONS, A COLLOQUIUM ORGANIZED FOR ABAK 5 BY LEARNERS FIELD INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, UTU ABAK, ABAK LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

Mr. Nsidibe Essien Speaks:

Hear him:

“Election is the formal process of selecting a person for public office or of accepting or rejecting a political proposition by voting. However, it is important to distinguish between the form and the substance of elections.

In some cases, electoral forms are present but the substance of an election is missing, as when voters do not have a free and genuine choice between at least two alternatives.

Most countries hold elections in at least the formal sense, but in many of them the elections are not competitive for example all but one party may be forbidden to contest or the electoral situation is in other respects highly compromised.

The topic of today is focusing on the youths involvement in politics. Youths need real opportunities to participate in political processes and contribute to practical solutions that advance development. When given an opportunity to organize, voice their opinions and play a meaningful role in political decision making, young people consistently demonstrate their willingness and ability to foster positive, lasting change. They also become more likely to demand and defend democracy, and gain a greater sense of belonging.

In Oruk Anam LGA, it has become imperative that youths should be allowed to get in involved in the activities of politics. It is very bad that over time, our youths have been used as tools for political missile, some politicians empower our youths to fight and destroy each other instead of getting positive involvement.

So, our youths should not enter politics as thugs to avoid being used as political missiles. This time, they should have a renewed mindset, youths should enter politics with a defining characteristic and positive mindset. Do not dream to become a politician as a thug.

The youth must prepare themselves for tomorrow. Youths should not be thinking about the benefits because, they want to become thugs, instead work on themselves. The should think of what to add to politics.

We know that the youths are the leaders of tomorrow. Beyond that, the youths must get adequate preparation not the negative preparation.

Don’t go to an election venue with weapons, the governor of our beloved state, H.E. Udom Emmanuel has spent so much time to preach peace and peace has come to stay. So, let us as youths think of how to maintain this peace. The youths should not use elections to destroy the much valued peace in our land”.