The Executive chairman of Odi Olowo Local Council of Lagos State, Hon. Olusola Ajala has pledged the readiness of Lagos State Local Councils to work with the APC Professionals Council, a foremost support group of the ruling APC in its upcoming empowerment scheme in the state.
He also pledged to foster more synergy with youths in the grassroot to ensure victory for the party across board in the 2023 general elections. This is to ensure the actualization of the Tinubu/Shettima mandate and the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu next year.
Ajala who doubles as the Secretary of Lagos State Conference 57 and Board Member of APC Professionals Council gave this assurance on Monday when he played host to the Director General of APC Professionals Council, Hon. Seyi Bamigbade in his office on Monday.
Hon. Bamigbade was in his office to intimate him of the upcoming empowerment of 37,000 youths across the Federation. The scheme is organised in partnership with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN with soft loan.
Hon. Bamigbade had sought the collaboration of Lagos State Conference 57 in the area of mobilising and documenting participants, also said partnership deed as reached out to Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON for effective participation of young Nigerians.
Welcoming the DG and top leadership team of the Council, Ajala said any effort geared towards empowering young Nigerians to self-sustenance is acceptable to him and the entire area councils in the state which he serves as the secretary, saying his office and Conference 57 will always support such programmes.
According to him, the government alone cannot shoulder the responsibility of providing employment to every Nigerian, even as he commended Hon. Bamigbade and his team for their efforts in bridging the huge employment gap in the country and towards electing Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria president in 2023 election.
The council boss also said he will sustain the existing collaboration between Conference 57 and the council in the area grassroot mobilisation of youths to support APC record massive victory in Lagos in the 2023 general elections as well as the presidential election.
He described Bamigbade as a leader with outstanding knack for achieving results, saying the area council under him will do all within its power to support the programmes and activities of APC Professionals Council.
Participants will be trained in agriculture, ICT, artisanship and more. They will also granted take-off loans, following an understanding between the APC Professionals Council and some Nigeria financial firms.
