{"id":93102,"date":"2022-03-21T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=93102"},"modified":"2022-03-21T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T22:02:11","slug":"2023-every-minister-of-state-under-my-government-will-be-a-youth-saraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-every-minister-of-state-under-my-government-will-be-a-youth-saraki\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Every Minister of State under my government will be a youth – Saraki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Senate President,\u00a0 Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has pledged that if he is elected President in the 2023 general election, only youths will occupy the position of the minister of states.<\/div>\n
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Saraki, a two-time governor of Kwara State made this vow, Monday when a group of young professionals and business people paid and presented the required N40 million to purchase expression of interest and nomination forms for former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to vie for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in next year\u2019s election.<\/div>\n
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They stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja to purchase the forms, saying that they arrived at the decision to do so in their search for a capable Nigerian that can address the interest of Nigerian youths and unify the country.<\/div>\n
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In his remark at the occasion, the leader of the group, Abubakar Danmusa, expressed sadness at the current state of things in the country, which he said motivated them to resolve to be part of the process leading to the emergence of a new president.<\/div>\n
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He explained: \u201cThus, after extensive deliberations, we have concluded that the situation of our country is so far from what it should be if we have the right leadership. The country is not running as a functional entity that can bring the best out of her citizens and provide the best for the generality of the people.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe are particularly unhappy that the country is not providing the right atmosphere for the millions of its youths to serve as agents of development. Instead, many of our compatriots are being forced to go into negative activities because the system is not encouraging them to utilise their positive potential.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is for these reasons that we concluded that we should not leave the process leading to the emergence of the next President of our country to only politicians. We have decided to get involved right from the pre-primary election period. We are determined to ensure that only good, solid, forward-looking, and visionary candidates emerge to vie for the February 2023 presidential elections.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want candidates who understand the needs of the business group and can initiate policies, programmes, and projects that will encourage the growth of businesses, particularly, small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs).<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want a candidate that will create a synergy between the private and business sectors. We want a man who will naturally earn the respect of the international community and the confidence of foreign and local investors and get them to establish factories and businesses.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want a candidate who understands that job creation and wealth creation is a sine qua non for the survival of our country and that only by creating the right atmosphere for the private sector can this be achieved. We want a candidate who is not too old, who appreciates the needs of young people and therefore will create a bridge between the old and the young.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want a candidate who is not dogmatic about religion or tribe. We want a unifier. We want a bridge builder. We want an experienced person as the next President of Nigeria. We want a compassionate, courageous, and cool-headed President.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThese are boxes we have created for the next President of Nigeria to tick. After an intensive search, we have found a man who ticks almost all the boxes. He is, fortunately, one of the leaders of your party, the PDP. He is Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON, a former President of the Nigerian Senate, former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, former Governor of Kwara State, former Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Budget Matters, former Executive Vice Chairman of Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, former members of the Vision 2020 Committee and a consummate friend of the Nigerian youths.<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou will see that because we are not money bags and extremely wealthy business people, we have many Bankers Cheques (or what is commonly known as Bank Drafts) put together to make the N36 million that is the cost of purchasing the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms. This is because we told each person to purchase the Cheques based on his or her financial capacity. Thus, we have different people contributing between N500,000 to N2million. This is therefore a collective effort, a contribution of many, and a joint endorsement of youths for Dr. Saraki.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe believe Dr. Saraki will lead Nigeria out of the current multi-dimensional crises. He will make the country great.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Speaking after receiving the forms from the group,\u00a0 Saraki, praised their effort in mobilizing money to buy the forms, saying that the gesture was a call on him to go ahead and win the election.<\/div>\n
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He promised that if elected, he would ensure that all his cabinet posts are occupied by youths.<\/div>\n
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Saraki said: “What you have done is a symbolic message that you are mandating me to go out to the field and work hard among all our leaders, delegates, and other stakeholders to win the PDP presidential ticket come May as well as subsequently follow up with decisive victory in the general elections in February 2023.<\/div>\n
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“Looking at the diversity that all of you gathered here represent, another symbolic message I will take away is that as far as the youths are concerned, what we need to develop in Nigeria is not where people come from or what religion they subscribe to. It is about having the competence, determination, and patriotism to initiate good measures and have the courage of conviction to follow through with the plans.<\/div>\n
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“Your charge to me is to go there and make all Nigerians – young and old, northerners and southerners, Muslims, Christians, and people of other religions, operators in the private and public sectors, and members of different political parties – to join hands and fix Nigeria.<\/div>\n
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“With your action today, I do not have an option but to listen to the voice of the youths who represent 62 percent of the over 200 million Nigerians. That is why I want to promise that If I become the President of Nigeria, all positions of Ministers of State in the cabinet will be occupied by youths. This is a promise that I will not fail because I believe the ideas of the youths are needed to drive modern development efforts. And you know from my record that I have the boldness to implement this promise.”<\/div>\n
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