Chimaroke Nnamani, a senator representing Enugu East, has urged Nigerian youths to support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the presidential of the country in the 2023 election.
Nnamani who was governor of Enugu between 1999 and 2007 when Tinubu governed Lagos asserted that Tinubu has demonstrated his ability to develop youth-friendly policies.
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In a statement released on Thursday in Abuja, the senator running on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that upon taking office in 1999, the former governor of Lagos State began a series of sustainable policies to address the high unemployment rate, sense of instability, and youth bulge that were unusual challenges for the class of 1999.
At the time, he said, there was a sizable influx of young people seeking better employment in Lagos. Tinubu, he continued, realised it would be disastrous to ignore the young people, so he “launched waves of reforms that re-energized the economy and ensured that the vast majority of the working population, who were primarily youths, were employed.”
He claims that Tinubu founded the Anti-Drug Misuse Campaign project to educate young people about the dangers of using illegal substances and the scourge of drug usage that has effectively killed many young people.
“To further address the challenges, Tinubu distributed over one million Naira in grants to each of the registered voluntary youth organizations as tokens of appreciation for their helpful efforts at reorientation and to encourage them to be more productive.
“Tinubu also increased the annual funding for the rehabilitation agencies to over three million Naira and subsequently created youth centers so that people would participate in educational and recreational activities that would help them develop healthy self-esteem in a secure and well-supervised environment.
“Vocational training centers were developed by Tinubu’s administration in March 2003 to rehabilitate hoodlums, neighborhood boys, and the homeless who were desirous of making a turning point in their lives by economically empowering them through training in professions like carpentry, shoemaking, hair dressing and tie-and-dye”, the Senator said.
