Estate Surveyor and Valuer, the Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, on Housing, Ayodeji Akeem Amodu, has stated that the youths are so important that nobody can isolate them from governance, as they are stakeholders to development.
Amodu also
emphasized that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, believes in the
youths and the youths themselves believe in Tinubu, the Iconic.
Amodu who
described Sanwo-Olu as Mr Governor, Mr Salable, Mr Infrastructure and the
Incident Commander took the position while addressing the media at the launch
of the book titled The Iconic Bola Ahmed
Tinubu: An Inspiration to African Youths which was held at the Lagos
Oriental Hotel recently.
He said “I
am a youth myself, I am just 50 plus now, the youths have been yearning for
inclusiveness in governance, and I can say to you that it is high time the
youths are put in the right places to actually participate in governance. As a leader,
I believe in inclusive governance, there is no way you can isolate youths from
governance because they are stakeholders to development, both social, economic,
political, we need to bring the youths, we need to hear their view.”
He opined
that the reason the youths demonstrated during the EndSARS saga was due to a
feeling of exclusion from governance. “If you look back into what happened over
two years now, during the EndSARS, what prompted that up was something that was civil initially
but it went out of hand because the youths were bottled up with a lot of
thought that they were not being carried along, they have not been given their
rightful place, so they all joined up and it was a gang-up, and people were
brainwashed to actually come out to display what we saw during the EndSARS.”
Amodu
brought a message of hope, saying that government has seen the lacuna and has
designed roadmap to fill it. “Be that as it may, the government has seen that
there has been a lacuna, there has been a vacuum, even before the youths came
out to display what happened at the EndSARS, going forward, 2023, as you know, the
general elections have just been concluded, and that is one thing our
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will come to fill come May 29, when
he will become the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic and the President of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the grace of God.”
Amodu
maintained that as someone who believes in the youth, Asiwaju will appoint
about 50% of youths into his cabinet “Asiwaju is someone who believes in the
youth, look at his manifesto, he actually went all out to say, there will be
about 50% of youths in his cabinet, that he is going to make sure that there is
not going to be issues of they are not carried along. If you remember, Asiwaju became
a Senator of the Federal Republic when he was a youth himself, and he
understood what the youths needed, he understood the tenacity at which the
youth need inclusiveness in government, and that was why he performed so much, someone
that came after being a senator to become the Governor of Lagos State, when he
chose his first cabinet, they were all young people.”
The internationally
renowned Estate Surveyor gave instances of youths whom Asiwaju appointed into
his cabinet when he was Governor of Lagos, saying that the Minister of Works and
Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) was appointed when he was a youth, adding
that even though people were saying that Asiwaju was too old to run for the
office of the president, they forgot that he is a man who believes so much in the
youth. “He employs the youths, he made sure that a lot of the youths were
employed in 2004 in the civil service, most of the parastatals that are
existing in government, from the LASMA, LAWMA, Neighborhood Watch, KAI, these
were people that were meant to be street urchins before, but the Lagos State Government
came all out and employed them en mass. The civil service, during the time of
Asiwaju’s first and second term, witnessed the highest number of employment,
and what are we talking about? The youth should wait and see what Asiwaju gonna
do this first tenure of his, and I know that he is not going to let them down, he
is going to make sure he put them in the right places.”
Amodu
appreciated the youths whom he said worked assiduously to ensure that Asiwaju
garnered votes enough to make him victorious. “During the campaign we saw all what
the youths did, just recently the national leader of the youth His Excellency
Dayo Israel just had a dinner in form of an Easter, for people to come and
celebrate with Asiwaju’s victory at Lagos Continental. So you saw how that
young man, at one point he was the One Day Governor in Lagos State, and from
there he has been picked, and he has performed, he has been given very
strategic positions, and that has even led him to be able to take over that
position of a national youth leader, and we saw how he went all out, he travelled
wide, all the 36 states, just to campaign for Asiwaju, what else can anybody
want from the youth, Asiwaju believes in the youths and the youths themselves
believe in Asiwaju, the Icon himself.”
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