President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja called on youths in Nigeria to prepare themselves for political leadership as his generation will eventually quit the scene for the younger ones to takeover. Receiving the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing led by the Acting National Leader, Kingsley Dozie Lawrence, President Buhari described Nigerian youths as very active and critically important in the Nigerian project. ‘‘We, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing, are partners-in-progress in the Nigerian Project and will extend hands of partnership to any administration that guarantees the interest and welfare of Ndigbo. Meanwhile, the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council with the Coalition of Igbo groups and Biafra agitators yesterday said that those Igbo youths that visited President Muhammad Buhari are not members of Ohanaeze youths but are impostors. We have sanctioned those who visited and paraded themselves as Ohanaeze youths, no such time did Ohanaeze youths approved such meeting.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2019 04:18 UTC