Oyo Sports Commissioner, Wasilat, Ibadan Youngest Mogaji Meet, Discuss Youths Inclusion In Governance

The Oyo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development, Hon. Wasilat Adegoke has said youth inclusion in governance is a requisite for robust democracy and accountability in Nigeria.

Hon Adegoke said the concept of youth as leaders of tomorrow has constricted a very important social category to the political fringe and reduced a demographic strength to a political minority

The Oyo female commissioner made the statement in her office while receiving Chief Olajuwon Adelokun Subair "Anlugbua 1",  the Ibadan Youngest Mogaji, 

Chief Olajuwon, the Mogaji Ile nla Labiran Ibadan in his discussion with the commissioner, urged government to make case for Ibadan youths in the present administration. He implored Hon. Wasilat to use her office to make provision for, especially idle and less privileged youths through employment, empowerment, and engagement.

The Ibadan Mogaji urged Hon. Wasilat to allow her office to collaborate with youth, to foster peace and improve the environment for residents. 

He maintained that the state's continuous engagement of youth especially in Hotspots areas will promote unity, peace, and restiveness in Ibadan communities.

In her remarks, Hon. Wasilat said that Governor Seyi Makinde in his humility, kind-heartedness, benevolence, peaceful disposition, vision, and passion for the growth of young persons had given the state youth the platform to excel as future leaders, saying that the governor has planted youths as seeds and that they have germinated.

She said it is noteworthy that youths in governance have improved greatly in Oyo state since the 2019 general election wherein, many young individuals were elected into office.

Hon. Wasilat said, "The current administration in the state has a passion for youth greatness, the fresh air breathed in the 2019 election injected more youth into the Oyo State House of Assembly. The Rt Hon. Debo Ogundoyin, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Oyo State was 33 when elected as speaker, hon. Yussuff Oladeni and Olasunkanmi Babalola got elected as lawmakers and also held principal posts at the 9th assembly in their 20s, 

More so, Hon. Seun Fakorede and Mr. Kazeem Bolarinwa who are both in their 20s and are the Commissioner and Special Adviser respectively, in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Oyo State Government, now myself in my late 20s commissioner.

" All these tell us, that, the current administration is youth-friendly and has plans to foster and develop youth engagement,  I assure you that, more youths will be included in the scheme of things with the hope of administering good governance in the state," Oyo Youth and Sports commissioner assured Chief Olajuwon, the Mogaji Ile nla Labiran.