2023: ADAUDU CANVASES FOR YOUTH PRESIDENCY

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By Olikita Ekani 

The National Coordinator, #PROJECT2023, Comr Abba Adaudu has thrown his weight behind the emergence of a Youth President of Nigeria come 2023.

In a well attended World Press Conference on Monday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, Comr Adaudu stated that the only way to stabilize Nigeria was to elect a youth as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He observed that at independence and the post independent era, those who were trusted with the responsibilities of piloting the affairs of this country were mostly in the youth bracket including the presidency, but wondered why in the contemporary electoral history of the country, the Youths were relegated to the background. 

Adaudu who is an economist by training but a youth activist by choice also revealed that the organization code named PROJECT 2023 was solely aimed at sensitizing the Youths on the need to politely reject youth inclusion in governance but rather embrace the taking over of the governance structure especially at the center since to him, the youth constitute majority in the build up of every electoral process in the country.

According to him, the recently held protests nationwide by #EndSARS protesters who were mostly youths clearly showed that the current crop of leadership at the helm of affairs in the country have failed the nation, hence the need to elect capable youths at the presidency, state and local government levels.

The #Project2023 coordinator as well spoke on other key issues ranging from Agriculture, qualitative education, skills acquisition as well as industrialisation among others.