The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said Nigerian youths
have excelled in every sphere of the economy they have
been involved.
He stated this when he received a delegation of Not-Too-
Young-To-Run Movement which visited him in Abuja on
Thursday barely 24 hrs after President Muhammadu Buhari
said that most Nigerian youths want everything free without
doing anything.
Osinbajo, however, challenged youths in the country to
strive to acquire experience before seeking to occupy
political offices in the years ahead.
“It is true that young people are participating in every
sphere of the economy and they are doing well, but they
ended up there through one process of training or the
other,” he said.
The Vice President, who pointed out that leadership
positions were not automatic, recalled that he served as a
special adviser at the age of 30 and had been involved in
pressure group activities before he became an Attorney-
General and then, Vice President.
He added that Nigeria did not need people who will just
muzzle their way into positions.
The Vice President said that issues of governance needed to
be planned deliberately as making women to participate in
politics and issues of girl-child needed to be taken seriously
and addressed.
According to him, this is because half of the women that
should be participating in politics did not have the know-
how.
He added that there was also supposed to be plans for
education to make the young people stand and grow
politically.
He said: “Just like you have to train before you can become
a pilot, so it is for politics.
“I think that whatever age a person chooses to run should
not matter; what should matter is the preparedness of the
person because elective positions require some skills.
“Most times people train to acquire other skills but not
politics; that’s the way of democracy.’’
Osinbajo said that there was need for youths to move up
the ladder of leadership to prepare themselves for politics.
Osinbajo decried the fact that democracy and elective
offices in Nigeria were based on people that had the
resources “so corrupt people kept coming into office
because they have the resources’’.
“These are the kind of people we have in elective offices; so,
we need to raise the bar so as to get performance and
competence.’’ he said.
He urged youths to challenge themselves with the big issues
bedevilling the nation, and said that one critical issue to
address was corruption.
The vice president said that people stole the nation’s money
with impunity and short-changed citizens.
“Our budget is N7 trillion and if someone steals N1trillion,
how do we quantify it? If we don’t have serious advocacy
around corruption, we are always going to be short-
changed in the nation.’’
He said that in a developing economy like Nigeria, there
was need to set the bar about competence and that the
onus lay with the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement.
He urged the youths to join political parties, be involved in
politics and pressure groups so that the nation could
achieve development through youth’s collaboration.
Osinbajo said “that way, youths will be able to carry the
cause and address the bigger issues that affect the country’’.
Earlier, leader of the delegation, Mr Samson Itodo, said that
the campaign for the youths was a movement led by young
people that would like to contribute to national
development.
Itodo, who is one of the conveners of the Not-Too-Young-
To-Run Movement, said that one of the reasons for the
movement was inclusion of youths in governance, because
democracy lost its vitality without inclusion.
He said that there was also need for inter-generational
dialogue between the youths and the elders to create a
platform where young people could interface with elders.
Itodo called for enhancement of quality of the electoral
process so as to increase competition among all strata.
“Today we have been able to inspire some young people to
run for elective positions; over the world, there is a
clamour for young rulers.
“What we do is not to clamour for elders to leave but that
we have faith in our democracy and it has to be inclusive
because youths have the capacity, competence and integrity
to hold offices,’’ he said.
He called for an open political system that would
accommodate young people, adding that it was a good
thing that the National Assembly passed the Not-Too-
Young-To-Run Bill.
Itodo appealed to the vice president to support the bill and
expressed optimism that President Mohammadu Buhari
would ascent to the bill when transmitted to him.
He urged youths to join political parties and be ready for
the political process leading to 2019, stressing that “political
power is not given, but taken’’. – Daily Post

Source:
https://grandmarketsquare.com/nigerian-youths-are-doing-well-osinbajo-counters-buhari/

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Your oga is suffering from semantic obscurantism

Na he generation he dey curse, no be Nigeria youths

Another clown...looking for 2019 votes..shameless pple..

This is Yusuf.
He doesn't like to work.
He stays in a free house, eats free meals and rides a power bike all day long.
When sick, he flies a chartered or presidential plane to some of the finest hospitals to treat himself all for free.
Yusuf is a #LazyNigerianYouths
Don't be like Yusuf

White007:
This is Yusuf.
He doesn't like to work.
He stays in a free house, eats free meals and rides a power bike all day long.
When sick, he flies a chartered or presidential plane to some of the finest hospitals to treat himself all for free.
Yusuf is a #LazyNigerianYouths
Don't be like Yusuf

he go die free death

lame. this osibanjo, should shut up.
he's part of this nations problem

Ok

Damage control. Unfortunately this won't go past a week trend. Nigerian youths are actually lazy. If not, Why is everything always starting and ending on social media?

Medicine after death!

Give Bubu a gun and he will surely misfire by aiming his own head with the nozzle,gaffes upon gaffes have become his hobby whenever he is ashore Nigeria,and he rarely say embarrassing things when he is in the country where the embarrassment can be curtailed and minimized Bt he rather chooses the global stage to misyarn all the time..