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Dear 'Leaders of Tomorrow'...When is Tomorrow?

To set the stage, who can be called a youth or an adult? UNESCO sees youths as persons aged between 15 and 24 years. There are three classes of adults: the young/early adults who are aged 20 to 40 years, the middle-aged adults who are aged 41 to 60 years, and late adults who are aged 61 years and above. Now to the issue at hand, I often hear my fellow young adults complain about how ‘we’ were deceived as kids to believe that we will be the leaders of tomorrow -a tomorrow that never seems to come. This idea that we were deceived as kids and are currently being denied access to power as adults is a widely held notion which has recently been fortified with the election of a 72-year-old Buhari as President and the appointment of  43-year-old Justin Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister. At 2 years, Justin met with the then Nigerian Head of State -Yakubu Gowon in 1973. While Justin is now a leader is his own country, Gowon and his mates are still very relevant and in charge in Nigeria.  Trut