BY GABRIEL      ENOGHOLASE

BENIN—A House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Sergius Ogun, has decried what he termed the abysmal slots accorded youths by the Federal Government at the on-going national conference.

Speaking in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state at an interactive session with youths from Esan North- East and Esan South-East councils under the aegis of Ebakota, he also kicked against the choice of those, he said mismanaged the country’s economy in the past as delegates to the confab.

He said: “I have discovered that in this country, we don’t carry the youths along. Now they are discussing as a nation at the confab. How many young men did you see there? The people there are the same  that got scholarships to go to school in Nigeria and overseas, and they were the people that mismanaged the economy of this country. They are the same people there right now.”

Ogun, who recently awarded scholarships to over 12,000 students in the federal constituency, promised to redirect his representation when elected to youth education and empowerment.
“We need to educate the younger generation, they need to have the right education so that they can have the right employment for them to be properly focused to guard this country,” he added.

Spokesperson for the group, which comprises  the 21 wards in the defunct Aigbazilo Local Government Area of the state, Godwin Ebosele, said they decided to call on Mr. Ogun to contest for the House of Representatives ticket owing to his philanthropic gesture and disposition towards assisting the poor.