A situation whereby the winner takes it all situation is what we see in Nigeria politics today. If Nigeria is to get it right then that mentality should be erase in our memories. This mentality is the reason you see ballot box snatching, fighting, manipulation and rewriting of results. This situation also deny the people's choice and after the election, good heads won't be appointed into the government because they never supported that illegal process.
I believe we as Nigerians especially our leaders are not democratic, most of them don't understand the true meaning of democracy, and it is often said that when a purpose of a thing is not known then abuse becomes inevitable. Unfortunately this is the situation Nigeria have found itself. You will see politicians threatening voters that if you don't vote for a particular party, so and so will happen to you, so if we must embrace democracy we must not be selective, because democracy does not allow intimidation and vote buying.
Democracy or not, we as Nigerians need to find a way to limit the old ones from vying for top positions. I mean, those old people who are above 60-75 years of age, shouldn't have any business to do with running from top leadership positions because they have been in politics too long and have become corrupted by the system no matter what they tell you.
If the political landscape of this country must change, then the oldies must make room for the younger generations of leaders to rule, while the oldies act more as guides or step away from the political scene because they are the ones who instigate god-fatherism and want to rule by fire or by force before they die as an ambition that may topple the progress of this country in a bad way.
In a way you are literally making sense in your opinion but how will this be possible when the Youths are not given the opportunity to contest for political positions and some of the young ones that has the ambition to contest don't have the money to mobilize for campaigns and buying of nomination forms. The age of someone who's in power is not the issue here what's our concern is for the person to lead and carried out the primary responsibility judiciously because we can have a young president and things will still be difficult due to the policies they make.
The Nigerian system of government is just revolving among some set of politicians and they are just rotating the tenures amongst themselves, before Tinubu became president he said this time is his turn so you could imagine when such statement is made, it clearly shows how the system is being rotated amongst friends and Nigerians still went ahead and voted him even though the results was manipulated for him to emerge, if the oldies gives way for the Younger generations there will be changes but not a 100 percent because it's a gradual process.
