By Femi Ogunshola
Prof. Abubakar Suleiman, Director General, National Institute for Democratic and Legislative Studies (NILDS), has urged President Bola Tinubu to appoint young person the Youth Minister.
Suleiman said this at a leadership conference to promote inclusive political party practices organised by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in Abuja on Tuesday.
He commended Tinubu for appointing a substantial number of women into his cabinet, most of whom he said were youths.
“You can see what the president has done by bringing sizeable numbers of women into his cabinet. Now we need a youth as the minister of youth, not person of my age,” he said.
He urged political parties reflect on how to deepen democratic processes through their actions by giving women, youth and persons living with disability a chance in their operations.
He said a political party that excluded the youth, women and persons living with disability had excluded a good percentage of the population…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
