Senegal’s President: Our Young People only more interested in becoming PA’s to governors and senators – Sowore
Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, expressed his observation that Nigerian youths seem more inclined towards seeking roles as Personal Assistants to Presidents and governors rather than aspiring for positions of higher authority.
Sowore made this assertion during an interview on Channels Television, where he discussed the inauguration of Senegal’s 44-year-old president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Tuesday, April 2.
He said; “Our young people are concerned with doing what I call tag-along. They are more interested in becoming special assistants to governors or senators. I have not seen that clear aspiration on the part of our young people to become leaders.”
“You cannot be young, mission-driven, and a visionary and go and hide your bushel under some of these old people who have no idea of how to even operate a phone. Youthfulness is also important in the sense that you need leaders that are alert and capable and responsive and do not have to spend half of the time in the hospital,” he said.
