Concerned Nigerian Youths, CNG has urged President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to approve the presidential candidate of the Accord Party during the February 25 presidential election, Christopher Imumolen, as the ideal candidate for the position of Youth Minister.
The body in a statement, on Friday, said Tinubu should consider Imumolen due to his consistent commitment to youth empowerment and development over the years.
They said that Imumolen’s extensive experience in youth-centered projects and his dedication to creating a better future for young Nigerians make him the perfect fit for the role of Youth Minister.
The group pointed to Imumolen’s successful track record in implementing innovative programs that have had a positive impact on the lives of Nigerian youth.
They said: “As the current administration is paid to the task of constituting an effective team for the onerous job ahead, not mentioning Professor Christopher Imumolen, that iconic Youth Presidential candidate in the last election would be a deafening silence.
“There is certainly no gainsaying that His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had prudently built a ministerial team, a composition of men of diverse political and leadership history poised to pursue distinction against all odds.
“Recall that in the build-up to this momentum, and against the post-victory speech of the President which carried pacifying promises for all expectant patriots, especially as he assured inclusiveness and thorough youth representation, high expectations were triggered, particularly because the major concern of Nigerians was how the nation will escape her fearful predicament.
“Though the president and his team had obviously explored diligence and clairvoyance in their choices of who and who occupied the ministerial seats, many citizens remain astonished that the person of Professor Christopher Imumolen, who flew the flag of Accord in that heated contest, as the youngest Presidential candidate (39 then) has yet to be considered for a place in this all-important leadership, happening at a time that citizens, and indeed, the country need true patriots and rising statesmen at the helms of affairs.
“During the 2023 electioneering campaigns, Professor Imumolen dazzled as the only youth representative in the presidential race that brandished a fascinating profile.His Curriculum Vitae was dotted with dumbfounding academic attainments and colossal socio economic strides.It appealed to Nigerians, youths especially, that a young man had lifted fellow citizens from the quagmires of educational and sundry economic challenges.
“That a scholarship scheme which had since inception catalysed academic empowerment of over 500,000 thousand Nigerians (prevalently youths); and that through his foundation, countless millionaires were made to depopulate the densely characterized region of the downtrodden appeared like cross-disciplinary and extraterrestrial feats by a young man whose only afrodisiac or driving force(if you like) was patriotism and a penchant to be outstanding in pursuing nation-building goals.
“And of course testimonies of his impacts abound in virtually all the states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. It is on these premises that a concerted prayer is being made by youths of thought and various leadership observers for a Presidential Consideration that will grant this iconic rising Statesman a place in this crucial dispensation to serve Nigeria, an opportunity they are trustful, will afford him the political strength to make a whole lot of difference and to contribute to meaningfully to this govt which inherited a myriad of socio-economic problems that must be tackled in the urgency of now.”
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