An All Progressives Congress, APC, stalwart, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, has stated that the incoming Buhari administration cannot afford to disappoint the youths given the support they accorded the APC at the national and state elections.
He stressed that the greatest challenge to be faced by the incoming administration is that of job creation for teeming Nigerian youths.
Kwande, who made this assertion while exchanging views with some newsmen in Jos, said, “We have been challenged by Nigerians and must accept the challenge. Thousands of young men had converged here to celebrate the victory. When I saw them, I nearly shed tears. These youths are from 10 to 17 years who are jobless and are jubilating that change has come. I hope we shall not disappoint this group of people. We need to start training them and fitting them into jobs. There is a challenge before us.”
Noting that the debt profile that may be left by the outgoing administration in states like Plateau should not be a hindrance as it does not matter. He called on government to do its best with the available resources, adding that “it cannot let it wait. If we leave it, it will degenerate further.
“One of the efforts the Plateau state government, for instance, can make is to align with the federal government and it will come to its rescue.
On the level of development on the Plateau, Kwande said it will be wrong to say Plateau has not been able to make any headway, saying, “We will not say Plateau has been static. It has made some progress but being among the first generation states, you cannot compare its developmental stride with the second or even the third generation states.”
According to the APC chieftain, “We have not been lucky on the Plateau with past administrations in moving along with the progressive states. If there is anything that any government could have done at the least, it should have been to develop its tourism potentials which we are so proud of.”
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