The news that Yusuf Buhari, son of late former President Muhammadu Buhari, has declared interest in the House of Representatives seat for Sandamu/Daura/Mai’Adua Federal Constituency is already stirring debate across Nigeria. Fresh reports say he formally expressed interest under the APC, with local party stakeholders already backing him.
But the real debate is much bigger than Yusuf Buhari.
It is about a pattern Nigerians are becoming increasingly tired of:
the recycling of political bloodlines in a country where millions of ordinary citizens can barely access the same system fairly.
Because let’s be honest.
There is nothing illegal about a politician’s child contesting for office.
If they are qualified, interested, and willing to face the people, democracy allows that.
But the outrage begins when Nigerians feel these children are not entering politics through the same struggle, same exposure, same sacrifice, or same political risk as everyone else.
They are often entering through surname, structure, godfather networks, and inherited access.
And that is where the bitterness comes from.
Because in a country where unemployment is crushing young people, where brilliant citizens cannot break through party structures, and where public office is already dominated by money and elite connections, watching the sons and daughters of the same political class line up to inherit power feels less like democracy…
and more like dynasty management.
That is the real problem.
It creates the impression that politics in Nigeria is no longer a public calling.
It is becoming a family estate.
And once citizens begin to feel that offices are being passed around within powerful homes, trust in democracy weakens.
People stop seeing politics as participation.
They start seeing it as a closed inheritance club.
That is dangerous.
Because a country cannot keep preaching “leadership” while looking increasingly allergic to fresh, independent, grassroots emergence.
So yes, Yusuf Buhari has every legal right to contest.
But Nigerians also have every moral right to ask a harder question:
How long will public office keep circulating within the same political families while the children of ordinary Nigerians are left outside the gate?
That is the question behind the outrage.
And it is a very valid one.
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