The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria must be returned to the youths.
He said the largest percentage of the population was youth, and so should not be denied access to governance.
This is as he said that the country’s challenges could be overcome with the right approach.
In some tweets on Sunday, he said: “I will say that while Nigeria’s situation is critical; it is not yet hopeless. That might be a cliché, but that is the reality. As I have always said, in the mission to rescue Nigeria, there is no tribe, religion, or class. Indeed, there can be no conscientious objector.
“We are challenged by high youth unemployment, which stands at 33.3%; 54% for the youth; and 20 million out-of-school-children. We must give this country back to the Nigerian youths. Half of our 200 million people are below the age of 30.
“The median age of this country stands at 17.9, showing that Nigeria has incredible potential to develop if she harnesses the demographic dividends intelligently.
“Harnessing our national youth strength must start with curbing the high youth unemployment and creating funding access to enable our youths become entrepreneurs and drivers of our Small and Medium Scale enterprises(SMEs).
“We must fund education more robustly, by tweaking the UBEC and TETFund.”
