By Kingsley Amaechi
The new leader of National Youth Council of Ikeduru Chapter, Comrade Chibueze Obi (NYCI) has expressed readiness to transform the mindset of youths in Ikeduru mental revolution and re-orientation.
The Chairman and former President of Ikeduru Students Association, Abia State University (ABSU) chapter, during a meeting with all Community youth leaders and ward representative at the youth Council Secretariat in Iho, expressed with bitterness the attitude and lack of concern by most leaders towards youth empowerment.
He noted that government both State and Federal had failed in achieving efficient and effective youth empowerment as they are bent on using unemployed youths for their selfish political ambition, and charged youths to arise and take their destiny into their hands.
Comrade Chibueze Obi, who is also the state youth leader of the Centre for Advancement of Christians in Politics (CACP) in his statement charged youth leaders to be agents of positive change, and urged them to carry the message of mental revolution and re-orientation to their various Communities and Wards, as he advised youths to remove themselves as instruments of political thuggry in the forthcoming elections noting that the era of ballot snatching are gone.
In their separate remark, the duty Chairman and Secretary of the Council, Comrade Paschal Nlemadim, and Comrade Bright Ahamefula, stated that only peace and unity amongst youth in Ikeduru can enable them attain giant strides, as they expressed confidence in the leadership of the youth council.
