Oriontimes Poitical Desk| June 5, 2026 Obokun Local Government, under the strategic leadership of the Director-General of the APC Campaign Council, Hon. Oluwole Wole Oke, has once again taken the lead in grassroots political mobilisation with the successful inauguration of no fewer than 3,000 canvassers in support of the candidacy of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji ahead of the forthcoming election. The landmark event, held in Ibokun, reflects Hon. Wole Oke’s unwavering commitment to building a formidable, structured, and result-driven campaign architecture capable of delivering victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC). As the political arrowhead of the campaign, Hon. Oke has continued to demonstrate exceptional organisational depth and strategic foresight, with Obokun serving as the operational nucleus of the statewide mobilisation effort. The inauguration marks a critical phase in the campaign’s grassroots engagement strategy, as the canvassers carefully selected across all ...
A nation cannot raise resilient leaders through comfort alone.
To place young people in sensitive positions in Nigeria, there must be intentional grooming, not applause on social media, not ceremonial appointments, and not empty slogans about youth inclusion.
Leadership is not inherited through hashtags; it is forged through fire.
Young people must pass through seasons that test character, loyalty, endurance, discipline, emotional intelligence, and restraint. Across campuses and communities, there should be young men and women who understand struggle firsthand.
Some will face disciplinary panels, suspension, rejection, betrayal, humiliation, and moments where victory itself feels like a curse because of the weight attached to it. Some will fail publicly before succeeding privately. Yet, that process is what builds depth.
A generation that has never been tested cannot defend a nation under pressure. If we continue to raise young people whose only political exposure is watching their grandfathers dominate party conventions while they wait for their fathers to “know somebody” who can help submit a CV for employment, then we are not raising leaders , we are breeding dependency.
Nigeria today stands between exhausted elders and unprepared successors. Many of the grandfathers still controlling political structures should already be resting somewhere peacefully, enjoying retirement like men who have completed their race. Yet they remain in the arena, still carrying the burden of a nation, perhaps because too few among the younger generation are prepared to truly build.
And while they struggle to hold together a fragile country, many young people are busy envying the moccasins of power they have not earned the discipline to wear.
Meanwhile, destinies are drifting into dangerous directions, and the future trembles quietly before our eyes.
Nigeria does not merely need young people in office. Nigeria needs a generation built like disciplined soldiers in the barracks: mentally alert, emotionally controlled, strategic under pressure, loyal to a cause greater than themselves, and capable of surviving hardship without collapsing into bitterness.
Because leadership is not simply about occupying offices. Leadership is the ability to carry uncertainty without losing direction.
I say this knowing fully well that I belong to that younger generation wrestling to make impact before life passes by. Because the most painful thing is not death, it is existing without purpose.
At the end of life, every soul seeks an answer to one final question: Did I serve my purpose?
For the greatest tragedy is not to die, but to leave the earth without an inscription worthy of remembrance:
"Here lies one who fought for something greater than himself.
No regrets.
No wasted existence."
Abioye Tosin Lawrence Publisher Oriontimes News
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