The Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide, has called on the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to pay urgent attention to the economy, fiscal federation, security, education and infrastructure if he becomes president in 2019.
Aremo Oladotun Hassan, the President of the group, made the call in Lagos on Thursday, stressing that unless and until those issues were resolved, Nigerians would keep complaining.
According to him, Atiku must also face the restructuring agenda squarely. To do that, he suggested that Atiku should set “set up a National Restructuring Affairs Commission with an Executive Bill.”
Coming from the legal background, Hassan, a lawyer, said that the PDP candidate must also set out as an advocate for rule of law if he wins the 2019 Presidential Election.
“He (Atiku Abubakar) must be able to summon a greater patriotic will towards building and reviving our dying nation from economic stagnation and social insecurity.
“He must be able to implement the 26 per cent UN Budgetary standard allocation to the Education sector with a view to postulating and establishing a statutory principle of law by enacting the Education Right Bill into law.
“He must be able to have a master plan for transportation development from roads network development programmes,” he said.
According to him, the establishment of a National Transport Park and Fares Management Authority is expected to regulate the amount spent daily on transport fares by Nigerians.
The youth leader also posited that Atiku should review the Land Use Act laws into Land Licensing and Allotment Law by an Executive Bill, such that all lands right would revert back to the land owners and communities.
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Hassan said that the government would only regulate its operations and management, while the Certificate of Occupancy and Consent should be replaced with Land Certificate of Ownership License.
He did not forget his constituency, the youths as he suggested that “the Atiku must be ready to equip youths by granting 40 per cent youth affirmative action plan on appointment and involving the Nigerian youths in his government.
“There must be a robust vocational training programme in information technology, Agriculture and other ancillary training, which will place and rank Nigeria as first world nation via economic revolution plan.”
He also took the position that Atiku must choose a South-West youth with intellectual acumen for economy and law as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation since the zone lost the position of running mate.