Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo, has charged Nigerian youths to do more in contributing to the growth
of the country.
He urged the youths not to allow
anybody to tell them they “are too young to lead,” stressing that those
frustrating the youth are not better endowed than them.
Obasanjo stated this on Thursday
when the National Youths Council of Nigeria, NYCN, visited him at the Olusegun
Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Urging youths to do more,
Obasanjo recalled that he started showing his leadership quality in Congo when
he was less than 30 while on military mission there.
The former president expressed
worry over the growing number of youths who are yet to find themselves in the
nation’s leadership positions unlike what was obtained in his time.
He stated that whatever he had
achieved for himself or done for the country, were due to his having access to
education.
Obasanjo also lamented that 13
million children are currently out of school in Nigeria.
He said: “Whatever I have done, I
have done it because I was educated and the love I have for Nigeria. If I
didn’t have education, I would not have been able to do what I have done and
today, it pains me that more than 13million Nigerian children who should be in
school are out of school.
“We don’t need additional
teachers; you will only increase what those teachers get maybe by 40 per cent
or something, we can even do two streams if we prepare for that and start two
years from now and those children would have become product that would be able
to make contributions and make their own life better and as well making the
life of their families too better.
“I am so much concerned about the
youths, the truth is, over 60 per cent of our populations are youths and under
30 years of age.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that
you are too young, I started making contribution to the world when I was
serving in Congo in 1960, I was only 24 years old. By the time I went to the
war front, I was still under 35 years of age, by the time I became the Head of
State, I was under 40 years of age.”
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