Osinbajo urges youths to join politics to make a difference
20 October 2021 Kindly share this story: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has urged youths to join politics to make a difference in the country. The VP stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, at a virtual forum where he interacted with Nigerian Fellows of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘Osinbajo woos young Nigerians, ‘our best minds’: join politics to make the difference’. His statement coincided with a day Nigerian youths took to the street in memorial of the #EndSARS protest last October. The VP was quoted as saying youths “need to go the extra length if you are not already involved, get involved in politics—while a lot can be achieved in civil society, government still holds the ace in terms of capacity and resources to bring social goods to the largest numbers. “Besides, being deciders instead of pressure group at the table in policy formulat...
