Osinbajo Inaugurates APC Group To Recruit Nigerian Youths Ahead Of 2023

• The vice president Osinbajo expressed worry that the next APC presidential candidate would not be as popular as incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated a youth arm of the ruing All Progressives Congress (APC) to recruit millions of Nigerian youths ahead of the general elections in 2023.

“So, the next hard work now is how to get the younger people in our communities, in our society into this party and to see themselves as part of this party, in their hundreds of thousands, in their millions, that is the next thing to do.”

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Osinbajo made this call in a meeting with the APC National Youth Lobby Group. This was disclosed in a statement by his media aide, Laolu Akande.

The vice president Osinbajo expressed worry that the next APC presidential candidate would not be as popular as incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari.

“Today, the APC can win elections. Why not? We have a very popular president who can control significant votes. We have partners everywhere,” claimed Osinbajo. “Whereas, in the coming years, when we do not have such a political leader who is as popular as the president, you are going to need to do the hard work, we can’t assume that the votes will all come in.”

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission voter register in 2019, 42,938,458 youths between 18 and 35 constitute 51.11 per cent of total voters.

Under Buhari’s administration, youth unemployment in Nigeria has risen in five folds from 6.4 percent in 2010, hitting 33.3 percent as of the last quarter of 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.