2027: Oyo APC Youths mobilise for leadership ahead of elections

By Adeola Badru

Ibadan — About 1,000 youths from the 5 wards of Egbeda Local Government Area successful Oyo State attended Youth successful Politics Sensitisation 1.0 astatine Egbeda-Ona Ara Town Hall implicit the weekend. The lawsuit was convened by Omolara Svenson Busari arsenic portion of her Youths and Women successful Politics Sensitisation Programme.

Busari, who delivered the keynote code nether the taxable “Seeds of Change: Young Nigerians and the Future of Democracy,” urged young radical to statesman their governmental engagement astatine the section level — successful schoolhouse boards, marketplace unions and ward councils — and to determination progressively into higher offices.

“Start local. Train, mentor, fund, protect, and clasp elected officials accountable. We indispensable halt seeing authorities arsenic thing done by others and commencement owning the process,” she said.

She noted a diminution successful younker practice successful elected offices betwixt the 2018 and 2023 predetermination cycles and urged participants to instrumentality applicable steps to reverse the trend. Busari identified obstacles to younker information including unemployment, constricted mentorship, debased confidence, and the outgo of governmental participation, and called for sustained efforts to code these barriers.

The programme emphasised the relation of mentorship, civic acquisition and peaceful engagement, and encouraged youths to cull unit and physique constructive networks wrong their communities.

Local enactment officials welcomed the initiative. Olawale Odeleye, APC Chairman successful Egbeda Local Government, described the sensitisation thrust arsenic an important measurement to revive younker participation, portion Youth Leader Lateef Abiodun said it had begun to alteration attitudes astir civic work among young radical successful the area.

Participants attended workshops connected leadership, campaigning, and assemblage organising, and organisers said the programme volition proceed with follow-up sessions and mentorship activities aimed astatine preparing young radical for progressive roles successful the governmental process.

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