Arm yourself with skills and personal development, a wake-up call for the Youth by Sheu Abdulmumin Opeyemi.

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The news of nominees for commissioners in Kwara State has put many people in awe and been met with surprise from a lot of people. 

Offa is known to be a community with over 100,000 population in the southern part of Kwara State, The language of the residents is Yorùbá, as the ancient town belongs to/is the head of Ibolo Providence of the old Oyo Empire. 

The town has produced well over 100 professors in numerous academic fields. 

The nomination of Dr Amina El-Imam, a senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) as a commissioner in Kwara using Offa slot looks like a nightmare to many as the regular politicians that the people know and was expecting were not nominated for commissionership. 

In fact, same could be said for all nominees in Kwara; majority of them are not political gladiators. They are rather a breed of technocrats and academicians with proven excellences in their different fields. This was peculiar in the case of Dr. Amina El-Imam. 

This should also be taken as a wake-up call to Ọ̀ffà youths. The town is filled to her brims with promising youthful and useful aspiring politicians. Seek knowledge and spread wings. Don't limit yourselves to political stooges, always at the receiving ends of politicians whims and desires. The politicians see most of you as human resources to achieve their political interests, goals and successes.

As a promising youth, devise all possible means to be prepared and be ready to take any mantle of leadership. Be bold enough. The Era of followership and being thrown morsels of bread is gone. 

Equip yourselves with value, leadership skills and expertise. 

Wishing Dr. Amina El Imam, UNILORIN don, a successful tenure in office. 

SHEU Abdulmumin Opeyemi writes from Offa, Kwara State.

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