For Nigeria to develop….

During elections in Nigeria, we should vote for youthfulness, articulateness and genuine repositioning of the nation.

We need to tackle the excesses of our bicameral legislature. A referendum should, if necessary, be considered.

The country has  more than 39 million unemployed youths.  There is an annual increment of 25 per cent in the unemployment rate.

Yet the country has 360 House of Representatives members and 109 senators gulping more than a billion naira in  a year.

Millions of naira are given out for constituency projects, but less than 10 per cent of the money is property used.

A single-term tenure should be adopted for all political office-holders, including the National Assembly members. Nigeria is hopefully coming out of darkness in 2019.

We need more than dry boreholes in our communities. We need purposeful change, not the kind of change we have now with the prices of foods and materials tripled, and with kidnapping as a thriving business.

We want our lives, our land and our nation back.  Enough of excuses and propagandas.

I envisage a hybrids of what is done in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe if youths fail to exert their strength and numerical advantage to unseat the cabals.

• Adebusoye Francis

Adebusoyefrancis86@gmail.com