Osinbajo to youths: Take your destinies in your hands, lead through innovative ideas
The Vice President, who was represented by the Chaplain of the Villa
Chapel, Mr Sheyi Malomo, said that now was the time for youths to start
thinking of leading the nation.
He recalled that Nigeria as a nation was built and shaped by the youths
who were determined to build a formidable and united country.
According to him, people like Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Chief Odumegwu
Ojukwu, who led the civil war, were in their 30s when they succeeded in
making Nigeria one country.
“There is this popular saying that youths are leaders of tomorrow but I
would like you to know that the tomorrow we are talking of is now.
“This is because the youths are leading in the world now, both in ideas
and innovations and that is why we have the Facebook developer, Mark
Zuckerberg, who is in his 30s.
“One of the things that you need to do as youths is to start to take
responsibilities and rise up with commitment to God,’’ he said.
Quoting from the book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 13 verse five, Osinbajo
urged Christian youths to always examine themselves in order to be able
to understand their responsibilities.
He also charged them to be committed to the nation’s course in terms of
political participation, adding that youth population constituted the
highest voting population in Nigeria.
He advised them to be fully committed to the political process in the country by making sure that they got their voters cards.
The Primate, Church of the Lord, Most Rev. Rufus Ositelu, advised youths
to be hardworking and innovative to be able overcome the menace of
unemployment in the country.
Ositelu, who was represented by Archbishop Victor Olasemojo, Northern
Provincial Head of the Church, said the solution to unemployment lay
with the youths.
He urged the young people to change their mindset and be pro-active to
use their creativity, ingenuity and sense of innovation to think of
becoming employers rather than employees.
“There are no ready-made and easy solutions to these problems but could
be that there are possible answers in the hands of each of you looking
for jobs.
“It may be that what is required is to be a little more pro-active in your way of looking at life,’’ he said.
Mrs Olubunmi Badejo, Matron of Youth Ministry of the church, said that
one major way to curb youth restiveness was to ensure that they were
engaged with jobs and employment.
She said that youths needed counsel to make sure that they worked hard
and be successful and had hope in the future of the country.
According to her, youths must also have the fear of God because if you
have the fear of God, you will not do things that are against the will
of God.
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