TEXT OF A PRESS STATEMENT OF THE SOUTH WEST YOUTH STAKEHOLDERS FORUM AT THE N.U.J. CORRESPONDENTS CHAPEL, IBADAN TODAY THURSDAY 12TH MARCH, 2015.

PROTOCOLS
The South West Stakeholders Forum which includes representatives of the youths of Yoruba Land at the Nigerian Youth Parliament, the State Youth Parliaments of South Western States, the National Youth Council of Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Students, Indigenous Youth Associations, Voluntary Youths and other Youth - focused Organizations and NGOs wishes to bring to fore salient issues as it affects us as the immediate future of this great country, Nigeria. We wish to bring into remembrance an event that held exactly a week ago at the Adegbemile Hall of the Cultural Centre, Akure convened by Governor Olusegun Mimiko where a section of youths with little representation across board and commensurate inducement purportedly diverted a post - confab summit snowball into an orchestrated endorsement of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office.
We will not but extend our sincere disagreement and displeasure with the said post confab summit chaired by the erstwhile respected Professor of Agricultural Economics, Dupe Olatunbosun who took time to show his dancing skills at the event while being ironically referred to as a ‘youth’ at age 74 only for him to denigrate the person of General Muhammadu Buhari who is even two years younger than him as being old and not fit for public service. While we have done well to follow varying reports of this conference which initially gave an impression of a post confab youth where salient regional cum developmental issues particularly relating to the future of the Yoruba nation were to be discussed simply became another avenue for the crass politicking that the PDP is known for.
It is also not forgotten that the national confab only accomadated 18 Youths out of almost 500 delegates which indeed showed that the Federal Government has little regard for our future as we were represented by less than 5percent of total delegates. We dare ask, which serious Country plans for her future while committing such minute participatory roles to its younger generation? This is even as these handpicked youths, particularly the ones who supposedly represented the Yoruba Youths at the National Conference unarguably only went in to lace their pockets with the national cake and played insignificant roles as they had and still have little or no following within their respective states and in their entire zones. This undoubtedly cast enormous aspersions on the credibility of the report of such confab.
For us, these issues are beyond the convocation of a national conference and the possibility or otherwise of the implementation of its report. It is more about the over 250 Girls who have disappeared and till date still missing from Chibok; It is about the gruesome killings of the Buni Yadi School Children; It is more about the continued number of unemployed youths who roam the streets of Nigeria looking for jobs after their National Service; it is about the businesses of young Nigerians that fold up due to lack of stable power supply; It is about the lack of good water supply and hospitals for the masses; It is about the marginalization of the South West in the policy of Nigeria vis a vis appointments.
To this end, we wish to state categorically that while we bear no grudge towards anyone, we are not without a thought for our future as this is currently being shaped by history from the past and the actions and inactions of the current administration. We wish to put it on records that only a few selected youths attended the said post confab endorsement – meeting; As vibrant youths of Yoruba land, We are highly disappointed with the turn of events at the summit which simply smirks of desperation by the People’s Democratic Party. We nonetheless, wish to unequivocally dissociate ourselves from and refute any such endorsement.
We have said and we keep saying that we do not need a national confab to secure our country, we do not need a national confab to provide power and water to millions of impoverished Nigerians, we do not need a national confab to address the rather embarrassing heights of corruption which has reached an all – time high under the present administration, we do not need a national confab to provide adequate learning facilities in our tertiary institutions as well as hospitals and neither do we need a national confab to see visible projects of the Federal Government in Yorubaland.
Conclusively, we wish to assure the youths of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States to keep the fire burning as we yearn for the much desired change in the political administration of our country. While we remain sticklers for peaceful and non – violent polls and are indeed ready for the use of card readers as planned by the INEC under the astute leadership of Professor Attahiru Jega, we ask that fellow young Nigerians remain resolutely committed to using the power of our thumbs to vote out mediocrity on March 28th, 2015 and April 11th, 2015. We are devoted to a progressive and positive change and we shall continue to work with all our strength towards achieving a better nation where we will be proud of as Nigerians.

Signed

BABALOLA Ayodeji B.
On behalf of Youths of South Western Nigeria

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Epistle

Op, this post is not well articulated. It's cumbersome to read.

its too long bt am gonna read it later...

No action points?

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