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Obasanjo advises Nigerian youths to squeeze out old generation from political office

Zuladine Ibrahim
By Zuladine Ibrahim
Published: August 13, 2020
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Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on Nigerian youths take steps towards removing the older generation from political office.

According to him, unless old people are forced out of the political stage, they will continue to occupy the leadership positions to the detriment of the youths.

Obasanjo made this call while delivering a keynote address at an interactive session held virtually to mark this year’s International Youth Day.

The event was organised by the Youth Development Centre, an arm of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

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In his words: “Unless you squeeze out those who are in the office and those who want to remain in office perpetually, some after the age of 80. Unless you squeeze them out they will not want to be out.

“The type of change I am talking about, that I believe we can all embark upon is to subscribe into the constitution of political parties in favour of youth. Or if you like it you call it affirmative action in favour of youths. For instance, if you say, in the constitution of a political party, not less than 50 per cent of those who hold executive office within the party will be less than 40 years of age.

“You’re just making sure that people that are 40 years of age will hold 50 percent of executive offices within the political party. “You can even go beyond that and say that people who will be put up for election, not less than 50 percent of them, will be less than 40 years of age. That’s affirmative action. That’s positive discrimination in favour of youths.

“I am saying this because if you leave it entirely for people to do it for you, nobody will do it for you. You have to do it for yourself.”

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