Osun New NYCN Exco Calls For Youth Inclusion In Adeleke’s Cabinet, Urges Gender Balance

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The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Osun State chapter, has urged the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to appoint more youths in his cabinet, AMILOADED reports.

The NYCN made the call at a press conference addressed by its chairman, Comrade Adetunji Ajala, in Osogbo, Osun State on Thursday.

Ajala called for gender balance in the appointment of cabinet members and other positions in the state.

Speaking on his emergence as the new chairman of the council, he said, “Every end of the tenure, we always have elective congress where the youth that are affiliated to the NYCN meets to decide a new leadership for four years, that’s what we’ve done by electing me as the chairman.”

Speaking on what he described as subtle of notable performance by the government, Ajala said, “The government is doing wonderfully well, set up commitee before assuming office to oversee the affairs of youth.

“With the kind of persons in charge of the committee, we’re going to do thorough works to ensure that the potential of the NYCN is revealed to the world.”

The Congress Planning Committee (CPC) Secretary, Comr. Olaraji Gbenga Sunday, hailed the performance of the outgoing chairman, portraying him as an achiever who has written his name on the platter of gold based on record tracked in terms of loans, grants and adventure to states across the country.

“The government should not only consider the youth inclusion in the cabinet, but it is also pivot for gender balance as to the involvement of women, the council hammered,” he added.

The immediate past chairman of NYCN, Comrade Abdul’aziz, reeled out the achievements of council, saying this include the “condition of the council’s secretariat had undergone certain obsolescence stages, which the building’s early figure had been restored and now wearing new look after painted and procurement of office equipments under his leadership.”

He said that the council were able to manage other youth structures which are not affiliated to NYCN, “an attempt which garnered a move in tandem with the council’s vision for the development of state which helped to facilitate direct and indirect opportunities for youth, such as loan, skills acquisition and employment.”