The
Senator Representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has
stated that it is totally unacceptable for someone above 70 years to be
in leadership position.
Dino Melaye
While speaking to the youths over the past weekend in Abuja at a
dinner and lecture organised by the Nigerian Youths Parliament, Senator
Dino Melaye, disclosed that it was high time those he termed 'old cargoes' were chased out of the political scene.
The influential APC senator representing Kogi West, said if the
youths must weed out the old politicians successfully, it has become
imperative for them to come out and participate fully in politics and
take their rightful positions up to the leadership level.
Dino Melaye, noted that there was no way someone in his 70s can
still be in a leadership position in the Nigerian polity if the youths
are effectively involved and in charge, adding that youths constitute
over 60% of the electoral votes that can be used by them to determine
who emerges as leader in the country at whatever level.
President Muhammadu Buhari is 74 years old.
The lawmaker who admonished the youths to stop wasting their
youthful energy on non- productive ventures, said that they should,
instead, engage in productive ones such as politics, economics and
social activities by harnessing their potentials effectively.
Melaye, who represented the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the
event, assured the youths that nobody can take away their enormous
potentials from them if channelled in the right directions.
“You must picture the future you want to feature in. You need
to develop your capacity. There is no way someone in his 70s can still
be in a leadership position in the Nigerian polity if you the youths are
effectively involved and in charge.”
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