Comrade Jude Imagwe, SSA to President Jonathan on Youths and Students Matters holds town Hall meeting with Adamawa Youths.



Comrade Jude Imagwe, SSA to President Jonathan on Youths and Students Matters



SSA ON YOUTH AND STUDENT HOLDS TOWNHALL MEETING WITH ADAMAWA STATE YOUTH AND STUDENT.
In a bid to ensure an issue-based campaign and to involve the youths and students in the ongoing movement to ensure continuity of President Goodluck Jonathan in office, the Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Student Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe (@imagwejude) a former leader of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) took the gospel of transformation to Yola to the younger generation who he represents.

                   

During his visit, the SSA paid a courtesy call to the Lamido of Adamawa who expressed interest in the SSA’s current move and advised the members of the delegation to pass on the message of nonviolence to their wards. In his welcome address, The Lamido said that the holy books demand that a guest be honoured and protected, adding that there was no need to pelt leaders with sachet water or stones. He advised that people should instead express their anger towards their leaders with their votes.

The team left the palace to meet with youths for a town hall meeting, where the SSA engaged with the youths in a cordial atmosphere and reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to ensuring security in Nigeria, especially in the North East. He enumerated the giant strides of the President Jonathan administration, including many programmes focused on the younger generation, and charged the youths to ‘rise up and be counted’ by voting for President Jonathan’s youths-friendly government on February 14.  

 

The SSA admonished that now was the time to do the right thing to ensure that Nigeria does not slide back to the Gen. Muhammadu Buhari era when human rights abuses were perpetuated, and the press gagged, using state policies like the infamous Decrees 2 and 4 respectively. Then he asked the crowd, ‘will you vote for someone whose certificate is questionable?’ ‘Will you vote for an analogue President?’ The crowd shouted a resounding ‘No!’ to both question. The youths agreed that they will vote for a new generation leader with clear mission and vision.

 

Then the Honourable Minister of Youth Development, Mr Boni Haruna, called for calm before, during and after the elections. He told the youths to vote for President Jonathan as a show of love for his youth focused programmes.

 

In his goodwill message, the former Minister of Health, Dr Idi Hong encouraged the participants to take full part in the elections and to vote President Jonathan on account of his government’s success in meeting the MDG goal of reduction of infant mortality.

 

At the close of the engagement session, participants expressed happiness over the town hall meeting as it offered an opportunity for them to interact with the government. There were calls for the government to do more to secure lives and property and schools as education is a key point of Mr President’s Transformation Agenda

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