The election of George Weah as President of Liberia in 2017 is indeed a turning point in the search for a new crops of leaders on the African Continent. This is because the African Continue has witnessed a sum of old, lethargic, worn-out but sit-tight leaders that are bereaved of ideas that can navigate the continent out of backwardness, modern slavery, neocolonialism, mental, religious, tribal and ethnic slavery!
This wind of change in leadership that is whirling across the globe presently in both democratic and monarchical systems of governance began with the coronation of Jigme Khesar Wangchuck as King of Bhutan in 2006 at a tender age of 26 years! In 2011 Kim Jong Un, the young man that is making President Donald Trump of America to shiver any time he sneezes, was appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea. He was just 28 years old in 2011! At age 29, Venessa D'Ambrosio was appointed Captain Regent of San Marino in 2017. In 2016, Emil Dimitriev was elected Prime Minister of Macedonia at the age of 37 years while Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017 at the age of 39 years.
However, the wind of change in leadership that is sweeping across the world didn't begin with George Weah on the African Continent. It started with Mr. John Pombe Magufuli who was elected President of Tanzania in 2015 at the age of 59 years. Considering the age of ex-President Robert Mugabe who was forced out of office only recently and other serving African leaders, President Magufuli is relatively young!
One may be tempted to ask the purpose for this laborious list of leaders that I have drawn up here. It is to simply tell my fellow Nigerians that the world is changing; it is to tell my compatriots that leadership across the world is changing! This is the era of young, vibrant and fresh blooded leaders; it is no longer the era of old and lethargic leaders! The youths are no longer the leaders of tomorrow but the leaders of today!
Nevertheless, it is rather unfortunate and disheartening that when the wind of change in leadership has come to our neighbouring country, Liberia, certain educated-illiterate Nigerians are clamouring for a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari! WHY? I was in middle class in secondary school when Buhari seized power as a military head of state, I have long graduated from both secondary and university, the same person has returned as a civilian president! Tell me, when will my time come for me to lead the country? When he was a military head of state, as a youth then I was told that I was the leader of tomorrow; today I am still being told that I am the leader of tomorrow. So, when will my time come?
To the ignoramuses calling for a second term for Buhari I say it is your right to do so. But as for me and my household, we will never cast our votes for any presidential candidate that is above 50 years old! I am sick and tired of hearing about former this, former that, integrity this, integrity that. We want a fresh brain, a fresh blood that will turn Nigeria to Dubai or Paris! I didn't waste my vote in 2015 and I will not waste my vote for any old man in 2019. NEVER!
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