Presidency: Youths Not Oil are Nigeria’s Greatest Resources

Okon Bassey

The presidency has stated that the greatest resources the country have are its youths who constitute the country’s workforce and not the oil.

Making this known yesterday, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, who spoke in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, at the official inauguration of the state secretariat of the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups (NCBSG), said President Muhammadu Buhari has enormous respect for Nigerian youths.

Enang, who inaugurated the campaign office in the state on behalf of Buhari, said the president would continue to honour and treasure the youths of the country, and will at all times welcome them to participate in all that the country has to do.

“Again, I reassure you that the president really respects the youths and will offer you all opportunities to maximise your potential in different areas you choose,” he declared.

TheAllProgressivesCongress(APC), he said, was doing everything to ensure it wins all the seats in the state House ofAssembly, House of Representatives and the Senate as well as the Akwa Ibom State governorship contest in 2019 and also ensure Buhari wins a second term.

Also speaking, a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of NCBSC, Senator Abu Ibrahim, said the body has opened offices in all the states in the South-south region.

This, he said, was the formal beginning of the political process of deepening consultations and engagements with different stakeholders and shades of opinions across the South-south zone to ensure continuing peace needed for national cohesion and sustainable development of the zone and the country at large.

He maintained that the opening of the offices provided a platform for agenda-setting not only to secure the election of President Buhari for a second term but to guarantee the sustained mainstreaming of Southsouth interests in national discourse.

Ibrahim, who represents APC Katsina South in the Senate, lauded the president’s unwavering commitment to put Nigeria back on the path of cohesive national growth and development hinged on huge human and natural assets.

According to him, “In President Buhari we have a leader we can be sure will never abuse his office and use our collective sacrifices to feed his personal financial empire.

“He is true to his promises and will do everything humanly possible to fulfill them. The people of the South-south should therefore have no fear that his promises through the engagement with the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) shall be fulfilled to the letter.

“Already, the Maritime University has taken off fully; the Amnesty Programme has been infused with new life, the East-West road project has come back to life, the commitment to clean up Ogoni and other impacted lands in the zone remains unshaken, and the long-awaited modular refineries are beginning to spring up with several of them now lined up for completion.

“As you are aware, the APC is making progress with the intra and inter-party consultative processes of constitutional change on the vexed issue of the nature of our federalism (and associated matters of interest to the South-south), and these too shall soon be put behind us.