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| Prof. Yemi Osinbajo |
The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that “resource control is something
Nigerians should keep negotiating because if you produce resources you ought to
be adequately compensated for it.”
Yemi Osinbajo who stated this, Wednesday, during an
interaction in Uyo with youths drawn from the South South region of the country,
said APC administration will promote true federalism in Nigeria.
Osinbajo gave reasons why ethnic-based groups like Afenifere,
Ohaneze Ndigbo and Arewa Consultative Forum where flourishing in Nigeria. “It
is the failures of government that make Nigerians feel safe and comfortable
under groups like Afenifere, Arewa and others.
“If we want to win as a country we must aggregate our
strength. Like we do to our national football teams, every Nigerian always
wants them to win, we are careless about where the players come from,” Osinbajo
said.
The APC vice presidential candidate spoke on a wide range of
issues, while responding to questions asked by youths who had gathered in Uyo
to listen and interact with him.
On the threat of insurgency in north east Nigeria, Prof.
Osinbajo who rated Nigeria’s army as being among the world’s best accused the
government of President Goodluck Jonathan as not buying enough arms and
equipment for the army to use in fighting Boko Haram. He recalled how some
soldiers went on mutiny because they had complained that they weren’t able to
fight the Islamic terrorist group without arms and ammunitions.
“If twenty girls with rich background in Abuja were the ones
kidnapped by Boko Haram, the federal government would not have rested until the
girls were found. But it is not so with the Chibok girls because they are from
poor families and nobody has given any serious thought on how to rescue them.
“APC government will do things differently because Buhari as
the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Army would be in the fore-front of the
war against Boko Haram, and not sit in his comfort zone,” Osinbajo said.
Osinbajo told the youth that APC has a workable plan to
ensure that Nigerians youths are more employable when they leave school. “We
have programmes that will train and prepare youths for them to be employable.
Someone who graduated from the English department of a university, for
instance, could be trained under Executive Assistantship Training Programme
that could prepare them in the areas of letter writing, report writing etc for
him to function as executive assistant.
“There are some Master’s Degree holders who aren’t
employable in Nigeria today. It is not just about you being a graduate, the
question is can you organise a company meeting? Can you draw up agenda for a
business meeting?”
Osinbajo also spoke on APC’s policy of free education. He
said, “This part of the world that we are, require the government to subsidize
education as much as possible because of the level of poverty.
“I have worked in the university system for several years
and I am aware that in the universities there are computer departments that do
not even have computers. And you can’t have a good academic environment without
sending teachers on training and further training.”
APC governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Umana
Okon Umana who was present at Osinbajo’s interaction with youths described the
meeting as being rewarding. He said APC was offering hope to Nigerian youths,
and promised to complete the Science Park started by the administration of
Obong Victor Attah, which he said would enable Akwa Ibom State key into the plan by APC at the national
level to establish technology parks across the country.
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