The ongoing membership registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) offers a unique opportunity for the Nigerian youth to achieve all the positive objectives of the EndSARS protest, put to an end their passivity and promote quality youth patticipation in active politics.
This was the position of Chairman of Media and Publicity Committee for the Membership Registration and Revalidation Exercise in Oyo State, Mr Kehinde Olaosebikan.
Olaosebikan said all the youth need do was to “register in their large numbers as members of the party in their various polling units and form the majority from the grassroots, where the lines of leadership and control begin.”
Speaking on the South West Political Circuit programme of Fresh FM, Ibadan, on Saturday, Olaosebikan told the youth that “once they form the majority at the polling units and subsequently at the wards, they are in good stead to take the control of the party and get well involved in forming the government at different levels.”
He told the youth, including those that gathered in front of the station in appreciation of his support for the youth-on-air programme, that with their majority, achieving the lofty idea of decent living, functional and youth-friendly police, gainful employment for all and good governance would become easy as they would choose only those people with sufficient capacity, competence and care to lead the party from the ward to the national level.
Joined on the programme by Alhaji Gafar Ojetola , Hon.Wasiu Sadare and Ademola Solalu who are members of the committee, Olaosebikan advised the youth to take full advantage of the opening provided by the well-timed registration taking place well ahead of the 2023 general election to position themselves for leadership and greatness.
Olaosebikan said the political situation in the country could be likened to what transpired in the 50s and 60s when the youths took advantage of education to take over the leadership of the country from the elderly, stating that the present youth should take advantage of the digital era into which they were born to positively propagate their development agenda.
He therefore urged the youths in the 351 wards of Oyo State to mobilize themselves to register in the All Progressives Congress, “the only party that is ready to welcome them on board and give them opportunity to develop and lead.”
Olaosebikan re-echoed the assurance by the Chairman of the Membership Revalidation and Registration Committee for Oyo State, Hon. Abubakar Bawa Bwari, that there would be no discrimination or exclusion of any sort in Oyo State.
He said that the entire process had been made easy and seamless with the adequate trainings of supervisors at all levels.
The registration proper begins in all the polling units across the 33 local government areas of the state on Tuesday, February 9, 2021.
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