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2023: Osun NNPP Reps candidate promises job creation for youths

The hopeful said his cardinal focus would be to assist the youth to realise their potential, adding that the nation’s unemployment rate was alarming.

• September 28, 2022
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)

Adekunle Abolade, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) House of Representatives candidate for the Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan Federal Constituency in Osun, has promised to create jobs and empower youths in his constituency if elected in 2023.

“Making the youths self-reliant, resourceful, industrious and creative will be my focus if elected, and I will always welcome ideas that will give the desired leverage,” Mr Abolade said.

Mr Abolade, who said this while addressing a news conference on Wednesday in Osogbo, said he would also initiate poverty alleviation programmmes with a specific focus on youth employment and empowerment.

The hopeful said his cardinal focus would be to assist the youth to realise their potential, adding that the nation’s unemployment rate was alarming.

“The rate of unemployment in Osun and Nigeria as a whole is worrisome, and you know that an idle hand, they say, is the devil’s workshop,” he said.

He added, “I want to also state that if given the opportunity to serve as a member of the Federal House of Representatives, I will be accountable and responsive to the problems confronting my constituents.”

Mr Abolade also appealed to his constituents to vote for him and his party for the prompt delivery of the dividends of democracy.

(NAN) 

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