By Francis Sadhere, Warri
Dr. Michael Tidi, the immediate past Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area in Delta State, has called on Nigerian youths to unite and confront entrenched power structures that have impeded the nation’s development.
In a recent statement, Tidi emphasized the need for a collective effort to discard outdated narratives and divisions rooted in ethnicity, religion, and creed.
Reacting to Senator Shehu Sani’s recent article, “THE NORTH: After Blaming Others, Let’s Probe Ourselves,” Tidi praised Sani as a mentor and principled leader, highlighting the broader relevance of his message to Nigerian youth.
Tidi echoed Sani’s call for introspection and self-examination, urging young Nigerians to move beyond the constraints imposed by historical and political figures.
Tidi stressed that in order for Nigeria to advance, young people must reject the divisive factors that hinder unity. “Hunger and hardship affect everyone regardless of our tribe or religion,” he said. “It is crucial for us to unite and confront the entrenched power structures that have hindered our country’s development.”
He also criticized the current roles often assigned to youths, urging them to aspire to more significant positions rather than being relegated to minor roles.
“Young Nigerians must rise to the occasion; we cannot continue to be relegated to roles as mere media assistants and errand runners. No youth was born to be hewer of wood and drawer of water.
“Young Nigerians have the zeal, skill set, knowledge, intelligence, and sheer numbers needed to make a substantial impact,” Tidi stated. “Let us rise up and work towards a brighter future for Nigeria.”
Tidi further asserted that if the present government fails to heed the concerns of the youth, they should use their democratic right to vote them out in the next elections.
He strongly rejected military intervention as a solution, advocating instead for democratic processes to address governance issues.
“The future holds great promise for our nation,” Tidi concluded. “The power to bring about change rests in our hands, the youth.”
Below is Senator Shehu Sani”s message to the North;
THE NORTH: After Blaming Others, Let’s Probe Ourselves.
1. Most public schools are free, yet our young ones still don’t want to go to school.
2. Most of us don’t want our spouses to work or use their skills or talents to earn a living or contribute to the family. When we die, we leave them as helpless widows at the mercy of a hostile society.
3. Most young ones don’t want to serve as apprentices in workshops or retail outlets because they don’t have the heart and the patience to serve.
4. Most parents in rural areas hand over their children to a religious teacher in the city, and the religious teacher depends on the children to beg or steal in order to feed him and his family.
5. For ethnic, religious, and sectional reasons, we protected, defended, praised, and refused to hold to account all our kinsmen who led the country at every wasted opportunity for over five decades.
6. The bandits and terrorists that kill and kidnap our people and deny our farmers from going to their farms and deny our children from going to school are not from any country or from the south of the country; they came from our homes and from our families up north. We worshipped with them in the same mosque.
7. We used to live together as one region in peace, brotherhood, and love, and then we divided and hate ourselves along religious lines.
8. We don’t vote for people who will serve us; we vote for those who will give us spaghetti and grains.
9. We concoct and spread all sorts of religiously inclined conspiracies to deny our children free health immunization against diseases, and we end up with hundreds of thousands of blind, lame, crippled, and deaf children, who grow up as impaired victims of polio, glaucoma, or leprosy, begging in the streets of northern and southern cities. Even someone like Bill Gates, who regularly shows interest in us, we have no kind words for him.
10. Most of our women and girls don’t have a business capital of 100k, but they have an iPhone of N1.5m. They don’t have a capital of 100k but can ‘struggle’ to meet up with a wedding asoebi of 500k.
11. We deny most of our girls the right to go beyond secondary school because of negative thoughts about the university.
12. We don’t want our female children to wear uniforms. Whenever the recruitment portals for the Army, police, customs, immigration, civil defense are open, we don’t want our female wards to apply.
13. When our children are graduating from universities, especially public universities, most of the parents that attend to celebrate and appreciate their children in such events are parents of the southern students from the south.
14. Most of our industries and factories in Kano, Kaduna, and Jos have since closed down when our kinsmen were in power.
15. Our farmers in rural areas are still farming with hoes for the whole period our kinsmen have been in power. The groundnut and cotton pyramids and fields disappeared long ago when our kinsmen were at the helm.
16. All the spare parts, building materials, and pharmaceutical stores in the north are private businesses owned by people from other regions who were not in any way backed, funded, or supported by any government.
17. When our kinsmen were in power, we attributed our poverty and insecurity to God and to our sins; when our kinsmen are out of power, we attribute our sufferings to the king.
18. The FCT is in the north. Can anyone explain why the people from the region couldn’t dominate the private businesses in the FCT and Suleja and Mararaba? Who should be blamed for this one?
19. God gave us the largest landmass, the largest number of people, the most rivers, resources, and livestock, and gave us power for the most part of our history. Which of the favors of our Lord can we deny?
20. The North: Eighty percent of our problem is ourselves and not anyone ‘outside of ourselves’.
Dr. Michael Tidi, the immediate past Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area in Delta State, has called on Nigerian youths to unite and confront entrenched power structures that have impeded the nation’s development.
In a recent statement, Tidi emphasized the need for a collective effort to discard outdated narratives and divisions rooted in ethnicity, religion, and creed.
Reacting to Senator Shehu Sani’s recent article, “THE NORTH: After Blaming Others, Let’s Probe Ourselves,” Tidi praised Sani as a mentor and principled leader, highlighting the broader relevance of his message to Nigerian youth.
Tidi echoed Sani’s call for introspection and self-examination, urging young Nigerians to move beyond the constraints imposed by historical and political figures.
Tidi stressed that in order for Nigeria to advance, young people must reject the divisive factors that hinder unity. “Hunger and hardship affect everyone regardless of our tribe or religion,” he said. “It is crucial for us to unite and confront the entrenched power structures that have hindered our country’s development.”
He also criticized the current roles often assigned to youths, urging them to aspire to more significant positions rather than being relegated to minor roles.
“Young Nigerians must rise to the occasion; we cannot continue to be relegated to roles as mere media assistants and errand runners. No youth was born to be hewer of wood and drawer of water.
“Young Nigerians have the zeal, skill set, knowledge, intelligence, and sheer numbers needed to make a substantial impact,” Tidi stated. “Let us rise up and work towards a brighter future for Nigeria.”
Tidi further asserted that if the present government fails to heed the concerns of the youth, they should use their democratic right to vote them out in the next elections.
He strongly rejected military intervention as a solution, advocating instead for democratic processes to address governance issues.
“The future holds great promise for our nation,” Tidi concluded. “The power to bring about change rests in our hands, the youth.”
Below is Senator Shehu Sani”s message to the North;
THE NORTH: After Blaming Others, Let’s Probe Ourselves.
1. Most public schools are free, yet our young ones still don’t want to go to school.
2. Most of us don’t want our spouses to work or use their skills or talents to earn a living or contribute to the family. When we die, we leave them as helpless widows at the mercy of a hostile society.
3. Most young ones don’t want to serve as apprentices in workshops or retail outlets because they don’t have the heart and the patience to serve.
4. Most parents in rural areas hand over their children to a religious teacher in the city, and the religious teacher depends on the children to beg or steal in order to feed him and his family.
5. For ethnic, religious, and sectional reasons, we protected, defended, praised, and refused to hold to account all our kinsmen who led the country at every wasted opportunity for over five decades.
6. The bandits and terrorists that kill and kidnap our people and deny our farmers from going to their farms and deny our children from going to school are not from any country or from the south of the country; they came from our homes and from our families up north. We worshipped with them in the same mosque.
7. We used to live together as one region in peace, brotherhood, and love, and then we divided and hate ourselves along religious lines.
8. We don’t vote for people who will serve us; we vote for those who will give us spaghetti and grains.
9. We concoct and spread all sorts of religiously inclined conspiracies to deny our children free health immunization against diseases, and we end up with hundreds of thousands of blind, lame, crippled, and deaf children, who grow up as impaired victims of polio, glaucoma, or leprosy, begging in the streets of northern and southern cities. Even someone like Bill Gates, who regularly shows interest in us, we have no kind words for him.
10. Most of our women and girls don’t have a business capital of 100k, but they have an iPhone of N1.5m. They don’t have a capital of 100k but can ‘struggle’ to meet up with a wedding asoebi of 500k.
11. We deny most of our girls the right to go beyond secondary school because of negative thoughts about the university.
12. We don’t want our female children to wear uniforms. Whenever the recruitment portals for the Army, police, customs, immigration, civil defense are open, we don’t want our female wards to apply.
13. When our children are graduating from universities, especially public universities, most of the parents that attend to celebrate and appreciate their children in such events are parents of the southern students from the south.
14. Most of our industries and factories in Kano, Kaduna, and Jos have since closed down when our kinsmen were in power.
15. Our farmers in rural areas are still farming with hoes for the whole period our kinsmen have been in power. The groundnut and cotton pyramids and fields disappeared long ago when our kinsmen were at the helm.
16. All the spare parts, building materials, and pharmaceutical stores in the north are private businesses owned by people from other regions who were not in any way backed, funded, or supported by any government.
17. When our kinsmen were in power, we attributed our poverty and insecurity to God and to our sins; when our kinsmen are out of power, we attribute our sufferings to the king.
18. The FCT is in the north. Can anyone explain why the people from the region couldn’t dominate the private businesses in the FCT and Suleja and Mararaba? Who should be blamed for this one?
19. God gave us the largest landmass, the largest number of people, the most rivers, resources, and livestock, and gave us power for the most part of our history. Which of the favors of our Lord can we deny?
20. The North: Eighty percent of our problem is ourselves and not anyone ‘outside of ourselves’.
