The Edo State Government led by Governor Godwin Obaseki has pledged to sustain reforms and programmes to guarantee better opportunities for youths in the state, ensuring that they are provided with the right environment and skills to survive and thrive in a technology-driven society.
This information was contained in a statement by the special adviser to the Edo State Government on Media Projects, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, and made available to newsmen in Benin.
The governor gave the assurance through his chief of Staff, Hon. Osaigbovo Iyoha, during a courtesy visit by the executives of the Coalition for Southern Peoples Democratic Party at the Government House, in Benin City.
Governor Obaseki, while receiving the group led by its national chairman, Chief Nwankwo Godwin, said the government would continue to support the youths and providing them with opportunity to live life to the fullest.
He identified the youth as the future of the party and the country, and urged them not to lose hope in the country but to be united and join other stakeholders in the quest to rescue Nigeria and reposition it for greatness and prosperity.
“Obaseki is the chairman of the PDP registration and the party has registered about 600,000 people in the state. We want to assure you that the PDP is Edo and Edo is the PDP. We are doing everything to ensure we move the party to the centre, ” the representative said.
Responding, the chairman of the coalition said the body is drawn from 17 states from the southern part of the country, which comprises of the South-East, South-West and South-South.
He said the coalition is aimed at fostering unity within the southern PDP, adding, “Most of our youths in this area are left behind but as a group, we are working to bring unity within the youths in the region.”
Godwin said:” We commend the governor for being a lover of the youths and appeal to him to be the patron of this noble body. We want to go round the 359 local government areas in the 17 states to mobilize the youths to participate in politics.”
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