Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on
Wednesday called on youths in the country to join political parties ahead of
the 2019 elections.
This, he said, would enable them
to be voted into political offices.
Osinbajo, who was represented by
Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, made the
call at the Emerging Political Leaders Summit in Abuja.
He said that it was not enough
for youth to always complain about bad leaders, but that they needed to break
the status quo by taking the chance to be elected and create the transformation
they needed for a change.
“Youth have a challenge in their
hands for the future of our country; so, I advise you not to sit down and fold
your hands and be lamenting over bad leadership or politicians.
“Get down to business, organise
and do something to become elected political youth; after all, Enahoro became a
leader in this country at the age of 23 and later moved a motion for the
nation’s independence at the age of 27.
“The leaders there today will
vacate the place tomorrow. So if you the youth don’t start preparing today by
getting mentored and learning the ropes, there is no way you will perform very
well if the mantle of leadership falls on you tomorrow. So there is need for
you to go in there and participate,’’ he said.
Osinbajo, however, enjoined
youths not to expect that from the day they start participating in politics
they would become the president of Nigeria.
He said that it was not realistic
and could not happen, but that they needed to start gradually from the ward
level and move up to local government level and to state “before the
presidency’’.
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