The Politics of Eye service and compromise: A fast growing business and the sad narratives of the Nigerian Youths

By Andrea Ekeng Inyang
Coneri Magazine

It is no doubt that the youths have the greatest will power, strength, dexterity, confrontational verve, alluring sagacity, viable inputs, know-hows and the technocracy to rejuvenate even pulverized systems through objective innovations.

It is also no doubt that youth population in Nigeria  is the largest in the country , so does their involvements in negative and positive endeavours.

In politics, the youths have shown some very remarkable interest at least by wearing t-shirts,  carrying play cards to sing for every aspirants during elections and also constituting body guards and thugs for politicians at various levels, hence they sway at the polls as the deciding factor.
Oh less I forget and also on social media, the young people dominate....My beloved constituency (laughs).

Through this medium we have been able to demonstrate some level of sanity and insanity by way of alignment and realignment.
Youths have been able to contribute to governance through objective articles, post and comments.
But every contributor on political issues, have their sentiments and bias.
The sad note is, an average of them all faints neutrality but with a fueling source.
Yes, we love tiger nuts, especially the juice but we fight against it's source, the grass.
That's the politics.

You will see an average CRS youth taking to the social space to antagonize, criticize and sometimes condemn a public official with serious ulterior motives and the gullible ones will join sincerely in the crusade not knowing our brother is trying to coerce attention to his needs and wants probably after a series of failed private connections.
He then buids schedule of plans and how to execute them. He is very resilient, appears very dogged and fearless.
Steadfastly, he begins to gather momentum through his followership and their teaming voices, you my dear start seeing him as a freedom fighter.

He calls his preys by their name, condemn their acts, challenges their actions, opposes their policies and sometimes presents indicting evidences against them. 

Unknown to you, behind he maintains a healthy relationship with his prey through blackmail, a source that constantly clears his upkeep bills. 
Some of his financiers are afraid to speak up because of the level of followership he has garnered.... He is popular!

Sometimes he finds a designate for himself(such as activist, influencer, agent etc), a very attractive one and irresistible.

They just know how to appear clean and innocent on social space on situations that ordinarily indicts and involves them.
Typically is the issue of cultism, where you have every young man condemning it.
I am left to wonder, who then is the cultist?
We can't get anywhere when hypocrisy is the order of the day. The days when hypocrites are the first to call another, a hypocrite.

This business of eating from politicians and still coming to social media to run them down is a fast growing one.
Taking  money from a thug to demoralize another thug with all moral justification.
Can you compromise your future and still have it?