The President of the Nigerian Youth Congress (NYC), and member, the Nigeria Climate Change Council, Comrade Blessing Akinlosotu, has called on the Nigerian youths to participate actively in the February elections, adding that youths by their population have the highest deciding factor.
Akinlosotu in a New Year Message issued by his Special Assistant on Media Relations, Emmanuel Daudu in Abuja on Sunday, also tasked the youth without PVCs to get their PVC to cast their votes during the election.
He said: “We the youth must realize that we have the power to decide who becomes the president of this country going by our overwhelming population. We the youth must be ready to come out en mass to exercise our political franchise by voting for candidates of our choice.
“Candidates that have the country at heart, candidates that believe in the youth, candidates that focus on the unity of Nigeria, candidates that understand, and are ready to harness the opportunities embedded in our diversities, candidates that have the passion to take Nigeria where it is to where it should be, candidates that value humanity more than religion, tribalism, nepotism and the rest. We need a Nigeria that works and not a Nigeria to be known for corruption”.
“Any youth without a PVC at this time is one of the problems of Nigeria and the earlier such people realize that, the better for this nation. The days to which youths are not involved in election processes have gone.”
Stressing further, Akinlosotu said, “According to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions.
“Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant, and to face the challenge of change. This is the time Nigerian youths must stay awake to bring to bear the desired transition ever clamoured for.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has done a lot for this country, especially in the area of fighting corruption, insecurity, and fundamental restructurings in all government establishments, and has succeeded in returning sanity to the system. He has done what no other President has done in the history of this country.”
