Báwo ni àwọn ará ìlú ṣe yẹ kí wọ́n fèsì sí àwọn olóṣèlú tí ń pè wọ́n ní "olórí" ìgbà ìbò nìkan?
Mo ye àpẹẹrẹ náà: fìlà, aṣọ-àwọ̀lékè, owó díẹ̀, lẹ́yìn náà ìdákẹ́rọ́rọ́ tí ìbò bá ti parí. Má ṣe fi ọjọ́ ọ̀la rẹ gbé sí ọwọ́ àwọn tí wọn kò rántí orúkọ rẹ bí kò ṣe ní àkókò ìpolongo. Iṣẹ́ ìsìn tí ó tóbi jùlọ tí o lè ṣe fún olóṣèlú èyíkéyìí kì í ṣe láti jà fún un, bí kò ṣe láti rọ̀ mọ́ ọn láti jèrè ìbò rẹ nípasẹ̀ èrò inú, ìwà, agbára-ṣíṣe àti ìdúróṣinṣin. Ìyẹn ni ìpìlẹ̀ gbogbo ìjọba tiwa-n-tiwa tí ó ti ṣe àṣeyọrí, ó sì ni àṣà ìṣèlú tí a gbọ́dọ̀ kọ́ papọ̀.
Àwọn ìdáhùn tó wà lórí ojú-ìwé yìí ni a túmọ̀ láti èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì nípasẹ̀ ẹ̀rọ, kò sì tíì ṣàyẹ̀wò rẹ̀ láti ọwọ́ atúmọ̀-èdè kan.
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Every election season, some politicians suddenly discover that you are "leaders."
They give you caps.
They give you T-shirts.
They give you a little money.
They ask you to insult opponents, disrupt campaigns or intimidate voters.
But immediately after the election, they disappear.
Your phone stops ringing.
The promises vanish.
And you are left exactly where they found you.
Do not mortgage your future to people who remember your name only during campaigns.
The greatest service you can render any politician is not fighting for him.
It is insisting that he earns your vote through ideas, character, competence and integrity.
That is the foundation of every successful democracy.
And that is the kind of political culture we must build together.
So, the question before us is simple:
How do we convert frustration into national renewal?
How do we transform the largest youth population in Africa into the greatest democratic movement our continent has ever witnessed?