Pat Utomi, professor of political economy, has unveiled the
plans Labour Party (LP) has for Nigerians as the party prepares to officially
begin its campaign for the 2023 elections.
Speaking on Tuesday at the unveiling of the party’s
programmes in Lagos, he encouraged youths to rise up to environmental
challenges, adding that the month of August is significant because Africa is
observing its climate month and the world is celebrating youths.
“The scope of our announcement today will include programmes
of the youth and the useful clean-up to take back their country in this Africa
climate month,” he said.
“As we all know, August is Africa’s climate month. We also
know that the real scourge that is throwing the world into a huge panic right
now is the environment. And so, August has been set aside as climate change
month for Africa to use to activate a response to the challenge of the
environment. Interestingly enough, International Youth Day also happens to be
in August.
“In this year that
Africa is hosting COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, we want to urge the youths
of our country, through a systematic programme that the #Obidient movement is
developing to begin to take over their country by taking over the environmental
challenge.
“We want the youths to clean up and take back their country
in this Africa climate month in which we mark the International Youth Day.”
He also said the party hopes to set up entrepreneurial
programmes as well as “listening clinics” across Nigeria to listen to citizens’
problems and offer suggestions on how to solve them.
He said the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) have failed in these areas, but that the LP hopes to
make 2023 a people’s government, in which people can be heard in the drive to
build a new Nigeria.
“Entrepreneurship training programmes will be offered free
to young people across Nigeria, from Jigawa to Jos and Jakande estates in
Lagos, and capital support prepared in the associations that we have, with your
‘soro soke’ third force,” he said.
“In addition, we will talk about the listening clinics that
we plan during the course of this month and going further from this month,
these listening clinics will be opportunities for people across the country in
different economic sectors and communities to express themselves about what
their real problems are and tell us where the pain is, and suggest to us how
they think the healing can come.
“At the germination of the third force is that the
government of 2023 will be the people’s government, which inclines us to begin
the necessary corrections of the biggest area of mistake of the APC and the
PDP.
“In our view, the
biggest failure of both the APC and the PDP is that they forgot about how to
listen and to listen to the people. So, they cut the people off without
probably recognising it. And the saying is that the voice of the people is the
voice of God and you truly lose it once you stop listening to the voice of the
people and acting according to that voice.
“We want to begin the change to build a new Nigeria through these listening clinics. We want to listen to Nigerians of every shape, colour, interest and level.”
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayAdvertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com