Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that the planned national confab to be set up by the Federal Government was to compensate the son of President Bola Tinubu, Seyi and his friends, as the confab would not yield any positive result.
President Tinubu had in his nationwide broadcast on October 1 said he would set up a 30-Day National Youth Confab for youths in the country to discuss and address challenges confronting them.
Tinubu had said, “Considering this, I am pleased to announce the gathering of a National Youth Conference. This conference will be a platform to address the diverse challenges and opportunities confronting our young people, who constitute more than 60 per cent of our population,”.
But appearing as a guest on Lunchtime Politics on Wednesday, Sowore stated that the current administration wants to compensate the youths “who are in the corner.”
“The agenda is to compensate some young people who are in their corner. These young people they are calling to a conference are probably Seyi Tinubu’s friends, not Nigerian youths,” he said.
“They cannot afford to have the real youths on the table. If I am invited, I will not go because I know in advance that this is a joke, nothing will come out of this.
“They want young people to feel like, ‘Oh, they belong.’ If you come to a national youth conference, they get it live streamed, they will get them compensated and at the end of the day, nothing will come out of it.”
Sowore argued that youths do not need a national conference if they truly want to take over power.
He added that the young people who are serious about governance would team up in unity to actualize their plans.
