Friday 26 October 2018

KOGI WEST 2019 : Okun Youth Leaders Forum endorses Omoluabi for Senate...

The unbrella body of various youth groups in Okunland, Okun Youth Leaders Forum, a member of the Kogi Youth Leaders Forum have endorsed the candidature of Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi (OBA) for the senate seat for 2019. The group which made the announcement after thorough consideration of the capacity, antecedent, responsiveness and degree of responsibility of the various candidates presented for the general election.

Thd forum described Omoluabi as youthful, agile, intellectually mobile, grassroots driven, accessible  and has sound knowledge of legislative practices. The forum note that Omoluabi has related very closely with the various communities of Kogi west, he has intervened in the challenges of the people at several instances, such as his ongoing court case against INEC for the restoration and recorgnition of the old Kabba/Bunu Constituency ll, Gbede Constituency, Yagba South East Constituency, Yagba West ll Constituemcy and Koto Karfi ll Constituency and several other very imortant interventions he has made. He is a leader of Kogi Youths and former Students leader that formed the national body of the National Association of Okun Students along others.

In a letter signed by the forum Board of Trustees Chairman, Alamoh Kehinde Samuel (AKS) and Secretary, Ajibola Adeolu, the forum says, by this endorsment, we shall direct and mobilize our teeming members across the six (6) local government of Okunland to vote for Omoluabi for Senate in 2019. He said the forum shall work with community leaders, religious leaders and women groups.

The group further said that the youths are ready to fill their spaces in the political arena and this aspiration is a way to start. They contend that young people have been sidelined in leadership positions despite their huge population, energy and resourcefulness

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