Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Vice President Namadi Sambo has asked Nigerian youths to resist any attempt to cause the disintegration of Nigeria, saying that the future of the country lied with the youths.
The Vice President noted that the youths must not allow the current challenges facing the country to degenerate to the situation in countries like Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and other nations currently going through one crisis or the other across the world.
Sambo spoke at a one-day-summit organised by the Nigeria Young Professionals’ Forum, which held in Kaduna on Saturday.
He said the younger generation had the responsibility to ensure that peace and unity reigned in the country by shunning anything capable of causing crisis.
He also charged the youths to create wealth and employment for their unemployed compatriots in order for the economy to grow, reminding them that “there is a drought of unemployment all over the world.”
Sambo also stressed the need for the youths to be law abiding, noting that no country ever developed without the rule of law, adding that it was only the youth that could create awareness among their fellow youths.
He said if the country got it right, Nigeria would be a world economic power and eventually turn around the world economy.
While urging Nigerian youths not to wish away the country, the Vice President enjoined the youths to “believe in our country and the ability of the youths.”
The National Chairman, Nigeria Young Professionals’ Forum, Mr. Moses Siasia, had in is welcome address told the gathering that the one-day strategic summit was put together to enable Nigerian youths to share common interest on how to move the nation forward.
Siasia said there was urgent need to put an end to the current threat to national integration, expressing concern over the insecurity ravaging some parts of the north, which he said posed a threat to the existence of Nigeria as a nation.
“This hall would have been filled but for the insecurity situation in this part of the country,” he said.
He said that Nigerians should note that what brought Nigerians together as a country was greater than that which is tearing it apart.
Siasia urged Nigerian youths to rise up to effect a positive change ahead of the 2015 general elections.
“We should go around there to register ourselves and ensure that we cast our votes for those who will have us at heart,” he said.
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