By Our correspondent
A presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2019 elections, Ibrahim Abubakar Lajada, has pledged that if voted into office, his administration would appoint youths into critical positions of responsibility in order to move the country forward.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja at the weekend, the 34-year-old presidential aspirant said giving the youth critical responsibilities would accelerate the country’s development and foster national cohesion.
Lajada observed that it was only when the youth were appointed into critical positions that “they can effectively contribute their quota to socio-economic and political development at all levels across the country.”
According to him, the policy of youth participation in governance is recording tremendous success in advanced democracies like France and Germany as well as other developed nations where their leaders are mostly the youths in their prime time when their values are often imaginative and much more flexible as well as durable.
Lajada also argued that as leaders of tomorrow the youths were in a better position to proffer ideas that will bring quick solutions to the country’s current enormous problems much faster than “what is currently happening in the country when such critical positions of responsibility were merely being re-cycled at almost all levels of government across the country.”
He said this would be done in a way that balance will be created between the ideas of the youths and those from the older generation, but that ideas from the youths would be given an upper hand in an effort to give the youths the opportunity to prove their youthful capabilities which most people believe could auger well for Nigeria.
He asserted that it was high time for the youth to assert themselves in whatever assignments they “will be given so that Nigeria” could regain its lost glory and even move forward since youth were people with the ability to bring about fresh ideas in governance.
