Senators mull youths empowerment programmes

As the ongoing #Endbadgovernance nationwide protests entered day five on Monday a former senator from Ondo State, Ayo Akinyelure has disclosed that he and 15 senators would be coming up with a programme to empower many youths across the six geopolitical zones of the country.

Akinyelure who represented the Ondo Central Senatorial District of Ondo State between 2011-2015 and 2019 -2023 at the senate, said the programme was to support the Tinubu administration in ameliorating the suffering of the people.

The former federal lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress stated this in a statement issued on Monday.

The statement was titled, ‘Press release to the great youths of Ondo state on the ongoing national protest on hunger and unemployment’.

Akinyelure who commended the youths in Ondo State for peacefully handling the protest, said the proposed #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria: Senators seek empowerment programmes for Nigerian youths

He said, “Let me use this medium to assure you that very soon youth unemployment will be a thing of the past in Ondo State and Nigeria in general. The planned programmes of President Bola Tinubu when fully rolled out and implemented, I am sure the people of our great country will be celebrating him as a great leader of our time.

“That is why I have stayed in Abuja more this period to give support indirectly to his administration to succeed by working underground as the National Committee Chairman of voices of supporters of Tinubu-Shettima government with my other distinguished 15 senators colleagues from six geopolitical zones of the country. We are working seriously to develop some youth empowerment programs that will soon be unfolded in all the six geopolitical zones of our great nation with the approval of the National Chairman of APC to make a big difference.”

Commending the Ondo State Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, for working with security agencies by maintaining law and order during the protest, Akinyelure called on the governor to utilise the natural resources in the state for the industrialisation of the state to create more revenue for the government and provide mass employment for the youths of the state.

“The state government should also work in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Solid Mineral and Natural Resources to tap the exploration of bitumen deposits in Ondo State which is said to be the second largest deposit in the whole world. This will provide over 5,000 – 10,000 youth employment in the state and as a permanent source of internal revenue generation for the state in perpetuity.

“In addition, the state government should focus on how to industrialise the state by inviting investors for the development of a seaport and refinery in the Olokola area of Ondo South Senatorial district that was negligently abandoned through greed by the past administration in the state. This will lead to massive employment generation of our youth to solve unemployment problems ravaging the state”, he implored.