Why Youths Should Participate Actively in Student Unions – Pat Utomi

A professor of political economy, Pat Utomi has called for active participation of youths in student unions in Nigeria.

Speaking on Tuesday at an event tagged ‘One Year after #EndSARS, 35 years after Dele Giwa & Quest to Remake Nigeria’, Utomi said introducing political ideologies to youths from their school days will groom them into national leaders.

He said: “If you look at the leaders of the world today, they are young people. And when I researched the history of these young leaders, I realised that the majority of them were groomed from their days in university,”

“In their days in the university, they are groomed with political ideologies and when they graduate, they already know what and what are in the party.

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“People ask me the solution to good leadership. I say it is the participation of our students in school unions.

“The majority of us here are products of unionism. Majority of the leaders that have ruled started as youths as well.”