GUBERNATORIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde has promised teeming youths of the state that he will appoint one of them, clearly an under 30 years of age as the commissioner for youth, sports, if elected as the governor of the state in the governorship election coming up on March 2. Makinde made this known on Sunday afternoon during a question and answer session organised in his honour by the Oyo state wing of PDP held at Jogor event centre, in Ibadan. In his face-to-face interaction, Makinde presented his manifesto as contained in his manifesto tagged ‘roadmap for accelerated development 2019-2023’, and thereafter stood for over 35 minutes to answer various questions posed at him by the youths. On his plan and percentage to allocate to youths in the state, he said “anything that has to do with youth, in fact, our Commissioner for Youth and sports, will be somebody below the age of 30. He also called on the youths in the state to join the road walk organised by the youth arm of the party on Sunday, February 9 to mobilize support for Makinde, beginning from Omi Tuntun House, Iwo-road ending at the state party secretariat, Molete, Ibadan.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 04, 2019 11:48 UTC