Kogi youths in their hundreds on Wednesday turned out enmass to celebrate this year Democracy Day, pledging their supports for the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Usman Ododo.
Speaking at the program, the State Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development, Mr Monday Anyebe, said the program was meant to celebrate the tremendous achievements of Governor Ododo and President Tinubu’s administrations.
The youths program tagged: “Renewed Hope Agenda” was put together by the Kogi State ministry of Youth and Sports.
Anyebe also promised the determination and commitment of Kogi youths to continue to rally support for Ododo and Tinubu’s programmes and policies for the development of the nation.
“The President and our governor are doing tremendously well in security, education, healthcare and infrastructural development, and we are assuring them of our support,” Anyebe said.
On his part, Oladele John Nihi, the Special Adviser to Kogi Governor on Youths and Students’ Matters, commended President Tinubu for taken remarkable steps to strengthen democracy and improve the lives of Nigerians.
“In Kogi, we have witnessed the positive impacts of President Tinubu’s leadership, his support has been instrumental to our governor’s achievements including the successful rescue of kidnapped Kogi students and various infrastructural development and empowerment programmes for youths and students of Kogi State, among others,” Nihi said.
Also speaking, Kogi Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo noted that the program was put together to celebrate President Tinubu’s unprecedented achievements and consolidation of democracy for the betterment of Nigeria.
“We have come together to celebrate our 25 years of uninterrupted, unbroken and unblemished democratic dispensation.
“This year’s democracy day celebration is iconic because this is the first time in the history of our nation, we are having an activist and a democrat as President who fought relentlessly for the realization the nation’s democracy from the military.
“I want other States to follow the template of Kogi State under the leadership of Gov.Ahmed Usman Ododo; we are fully behind Mr President.
“Gov Ahmed Ododo and the entire people of Kogi State is supporting all the reforms, programmes and developmental policies of the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
“We, therefore implored all our youths and the entire Nigerians to support Mr President to embrace unity and reforms. Though it is always difficult at the beginning but there is light at the end of the tunnel,” Fanwo said.
Other stakeholders at the event include the NYSC, NDLEA, NYCN, NANS, NAKOSS, among others.
