Osinbajo urges youths to join politics

-Osinbajo encourages youths in the country to join politics and create the Nigeria of their dreams.

-He however intimated that there is a place for political mentoring before political relevance.

Osinbajo wants youths to stop complaining and join politics.

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has urged youth in the country to give themselves a chance by joining politics and contesting for political offices rather than just bad mouth the elders who are in leadership positions in the country.

Speaking at the emerging political leaders’ summit which held in Abuja on Wednesday, Osinbajo who was represented by Babafemi Ojudu, special adviser to the president on political affairs, he adviced youths to start small and climb the ladder of political prominence and relevance.

“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,” he said.

“Get down to business, organise and do something to become elected political youths; 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 youths 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.”

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Osinbajo, however, cautioned the youth not to expect that from the day they start participating in politics, they would become the president of Nigeria.

Speaking in similar terms, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, encouraged youths to stop selling their votes and participate in grass root politics.

“If they don’t exercise that power, if they keep selling their votes for ₦2,000 so that they will eat today, their children will have no jobs in the future,” he said.

“It is high time Nigerians stopped seeking immediate gratification; they always love what they can get now and that is killing us as a nation.

“If this continues, then the citizens are just as irresponsible as the leadership they condemn.”

“We have had enough but if that is true, then we must act like we have had enough and take up the challenge to change the status quo.”