October 13, 2024
President of the Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Dr Pogu Bitrus, has called the on president Bola Tinubu led government to look at the 2014 conference report as it affects our youths, dismissing the President’s proposed 30 days conference with the youth as contained in his Independence Day speech.
Bitrus, described the president Tinubu proposed conference as a political jamboree meant to win the support of the youth for political ambition.
According to the MBF president, “It will amount to nothing. We have had national conferences in the past. The last one was organised by president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2014 which gave us a blueprint on the way forward on how to achieve a better Nigeria for all.
“Things have been addressed across board, including even things that have to do with the youths. Rather than creating another bureaucracy for political reasons, I think the government needs to look at the 2014 confab report as it affects our youths and other areas to ensure that constitutional amendment gets to a level where a lot of the problems that Nigerians are facing can be addressed.
“As far as I am concerned, the proposed 30 days youth conference is a political jamboree.
“Mr President is just trying to appeal to the youths for political support otherwise things pertaining to the youths have been spelt out in 2014 conference. Let those things be implemented so that we can have a better Nigeria where our youths can be tutored to take over from the older generation, so that there will be some mentoring along the line.
“But to just go and have a conference with the youths, to me, is a political gimmick to gain support and have a support base from the youths for the government rather than improving governance in Nigeria.” he emphasised.
