Age Discrimination: Let’s Be Properly Guided By Facts, Not Fictions – Dr Adeduntan Charges Youth to Shun Political Bias

Age Discrimination: Let’s Be Properly Guided By Facts, Not Fictions – Dr Adeduntan Charges Youth to Shun Political Bias.

Harvard trained and board certified, International Cardiovascular Surgeon, and former Commissioner for Health in Oyo State, Chief(Dr) Azeez Adeduntan has advised Nigerian youths to be guided by evidence based facts and figures. He advised young people in politics to shun insinuations and self serving agitations, especially, on the issues of age. “Irrespective of our age or gender, let’s consider capabilities, competence and depth first.

This is contained in a press release issued to journalists by the media office of Chief(Dr) Azeez Adeduntan and made available to the newsmen in Ibadan.

The Osi Bashorun of Ibadan land, Chief Adeduntan’s reaction is coming on the heels of All Progressives Congress (APC) youth’s persistence and clamoring, which he tagged as ‘drum beat of war. Adeduntan quoted youth saying that,”The next president of Nigeria should be between the age range 40-50yrs and anybody who is above 60 years is not fit for the office or any political office ,simply on the basis of age.

Former 2011 Labour Party Gubernatorial Candidate, in the state, and former faculty Member, Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, USA, Dr Adeduntan stated that for the enlightenment of Nigerian youths ,here are the unassailable facts.

He analysed as follows:”(a)The World Health Organization -the custodian of global health matters has affirmed through random analysis ,meta analysis and other statistical methods ,that the average life span of a Nigerian male is 50yrs and female 55ys.In Ghana 60/65,USA,70/75 with females living longer.

“So instead of Nigerian youths jumping around the street,that he is youthful,at 40 years old in Nigeria ,he is an old man,as evidenced by the statistics above and as exemplified below viz.

Umar MUSA Yaradua was 56 years old when he became president Of Nigeria,he died about two and half years after ,of autoimmune vascular disease ,affecting his lungs and heart ,which would have been revealed, had his medical history being made public to Nigerians.

Most important organ in the body functions highly predictive of death Basis of physiological age

“A former Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Michael Adesina Adeyemo died of massive heart attack on Friday April 27th 2018. He was 47years old. I was present at his autopsy with occlusive coronary artery disease.

“Had his medical history been known to the public that he had antecedent medical problems,a floor membership would have been better for him rather than the pressure of speakership.
Whereas president Nnamdi Azikiwe died at the age of 92 years(1904-1996).

“In light of the foregoing, Nigerian youths are hereby put on notice that there are three kinds of ages.viz

a)physiological age:
Age due to the functions of your heart(majorly),lungs,
kidneys and liver).
This is the most important with regards to capacity,capability and sudden death.

B)chronological age:
Age based on the date of your birth .It is secondary to the first.

While important,it is not predictive of death and incapacity, as physiological age.

for example-a 28yr old man considered as youth with medical problems such as sickle cell disease,diabetes,hypertension (primary and secondary),kidney problems ,is no longer capable and a 70 yr old man who has no medical problem is better than him for any job.

For example George Bush(41st ) president of the USA ,jumped from an airplane with parachute close to 90 years of age to demonstrate his physical fitness on his birth day close to 90 years.He died at 94 years because he had good heart functions.

C)Psychological age.
Age based on how you feel .Very self serving.
This is not predictive.

“The Nigeria youth is hereby admonished to know that nobody in Nigeria has ever held Nigerian youths down, but long military rule (paradoxically all were youths,(Gowon 31years, Mohammed 38yrs),and the cost of electoral competition which is prohibitive and a very poor and unenlightened public that will sell their votes for survival.

What Nigerian youths should do is not to be looking for advantages on the basis of age, but ask for medical records of all potential candidates young and old before elections (just because you are young ,does not mean you are healthy or that the older man will die before you), lobby political parties to be more inclusive, not by violence or threats .

“Chronological age, as is being
advanced by Nigerian youths, is self serving, and it is not evidence based.

“Current Nigerian President is in his 70s (his medical problems clouded in secrecy),same with Ghana(medical history open to the public,same with USA,(medical problems open to the public) as they are all public servants and therefore answerable to the public except in Nigeria.

Nowhere is this self serving agitations by youths coming ,except in Nigeria, because the major areas of making big money in Nigeria today legally is politics ,being in the petroleum industry ,and lately illegally – banditry, terrorism and selling body parts.

“So the vociferous calls by Nigerian youths are majorly economic and it is not altruistic .

“The Nigerian youths should stop parroting around the analog ideas that because somebody is older than him, he is unfit for political office or he will die before him.

“The digital position expected from an educated and enlightened Nigerian youths in year 2022 is to ask both young and old political office seekers, their physiological ages as evidenced medically by the genuine (not forged) medical records of the office seekers.

“What is most important for this polity as is done all over the world is physiological age,not chronological age.

“Our leaders both young and old must make their medical records open for public scrutiny before and during the pendency of their electoral positions with severe penalties for forged reports including incarceration of patients and doctors involved.

“The Nigerian Youths are hereby medically advised to stop the innuendos, they are peddling around about age.

“No Nigerian leaders since our independence in 1960, had ever said anyone is too young to rule, but for the arrested Nigerian political development by long years of military rule and prohibitive costs of running for office.

“We are now in the digital age, hence your demands must be based on unassailable and empirical facts and figures,not by trying to eliminate the older men in the system through no fault of theirs. May Nigeria succeed”, 2023 leading APC Governorship Aspirant in the state – Dr Adeduntan prayed.