Tanimu Turaki urges Nigerian youths on unity, non-violence.

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The Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has urged Nigerian youths to be united, eschew all forms of violence as well as give support to the development efforts of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration across the country.

Kabiru Turaki stated this during an advocacy visit to his office by members of the Nigerian Youths Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue Group on Tuesday February 4, 2014 in Abuja. The Group’s visit was to seek his endorsement and support towards the activities of the Nigerian Youth Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue Summit.

He emphasized the need for the youths as potential leaders to guard against being used by unscrupulous politicians to foment trouble during elections, noting that politicians who make use of the youths for their selfish reasons abandon them after elections whether they win or lose. Either way, the Minister said, ‘those youths who allow themselves to be used negatively would be the losers.’  He further enjoined the Group to enlighten the teeming youths in Nigeria not to be used as big gun fodders.

While noting the Group’s acknowledgment of the achievements of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, the Minister said that the youths should not sit on the fence, but should celebrate the good done by the present administration and be part of the change as well as seek being elected as change is not from without, rather within.  Turaki promised his support and that of the Ministry to the yearnings of the youth movement, especially their proposed by the Multi-Stakeholders’ Dialogue Summit.

Chairman of the group,who is the National President of the Nigerian Youth Action Coalition (NYUAC), Abdullahi Abdulmajeed said that the Nigerian Youths Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue Group is a national and all inclusive network of Nigerian youth democrats; adding that it advocates for sustainable development as well as  a united and peaceful co-existence.

Abdulmajeed stressed that their visit was in recognition of the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs’ centrality and the imperatives of its activities to the youth project. He re-iterated the group’s readiness to collaborate with government to restore Nigeria to enviable glory and save it from the brink of disintegration and anarchy.

In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Winifred Oyo-Ita commended the group for the visit and  assured them of the management team’s full commitments to the actualisation of the vision of the youth movement.