In the spirit and ambience of celebration, #Nottoyoungtorun Strategic Team, media, international and local partners and others who have directly and indirectly contributed to the successful advocacy milestone of #Nottooyoungtorun Act were all celebrated at the Not Too Young To Run Celebration Conference Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, yesterday in Abuja.
According to Samson Itodo, Chief Convener, #NOTTOOYOUNGTORUN
and Executive Director, YIAGA, during his keynote address ‘the successful advocacy milestone of #Nottooyoungtorun has been a collective and collaborative efforts towards raising young and vibrant leadership that would strategically take our dear country out of the woods’.
Itodo further stated that this celebration conference becomes essential in order celebrate our collective impacts and that of those leaders whom had given unwavering support from the outset of the campaign such as Professor Attahiru Jega, Speaker of the House Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and all the 33 states House of Assemblies that supported the Bills. They have all be in lnducted into the Hall of Fame”.
“For so long ours has been a country where young people are not seen as an asset to the national and socio-economic growth and development, ours has been a country that do not preceive younger generation as partner in progress. Ours has been a country that it was almost a crime to be a citizen of this nation” he affirmed.
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He added that with #Nottooyountorun Act in place the myriads of challenges and issues of inequality that have hindered full participation young persons in governance would gradually become a thing of the past.
Several panelist sessions were held at the conference to intensify conversations around Nigeria’s nascent democratic system of governance and role of young people in its sustainability.
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