In 2021, the National Bureau for Statistics (NBS) published a report on its website on global unemployment rate. In that report, Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate rose from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, to 33 per cent in the first quarter of 2021. By that ranking, Nigeria became the second Highest on Global List and going by that, it meant majority of Nigerian working population, especially the youths who make up about 40% are unemployed.
While speaking on his declaration day, Professor Yemi Osinbajo reiterated that if voted to represent his party as candidate in the general elections, his administration will be focused on enhancing Social Investment Programmes to a full-scale social welfare scheme.
It is important to mention that in the past seven years, the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has spearheaded social investment programmes that is now regarded as the largest of its kind on the continent. The establishment of initiatives like the N-Power Programme has helped keep a vast majority of unemployed graduates and undergraduates between the ages of 18-35 equipped with skills for the job market over a two-year period. Also, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) which has provided about 2.4 million loans to petty traders and small entrepreneurs worth N38billion across the country were all championed by Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
In a reported statement published in January 2022, from the office of the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, after receiving a delegation from the Cooperative Federation of Nigeria (CFN), he stated that the objective of creating these social investment programmes was to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in the country. It is in line with this vision and goal that the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina while speaking in a lecture, titled: “Nigeria – A Country of Many Nations: A Quest for National Integration” lamented the high rate of joblessness among Nigerians, saying about 40 per cent of youths were unemployed. While noting that the youths were discouraged, angry and restless, as they look at a future that does not give them hope, he, however, said all hope was not lost as youths have a vital role to play, if the country should arrive at its destined destination.
It is why only persons like Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has promised that as President, his administration will create an excellent environment for businesses to thrive. A gateway for foreign investors to come into the country, work with the hardworking people of Nigeria, increase productivity, enroute the desired destination of the Nigerian dream.
Economically, the PYO ticket will be all about creating wealth and making sure that the government, its agencies and regulators serve the business community.
More so, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has vowed that if he is given the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his administration will be completing the 29 May, 2019 second term inaugural promise of his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, in his public commitment to lifting approximately 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within a 10-year period. And this is why a vote for Osinbajo will be a vote for continuity, a vote for the continuation in the national development priority, which again follows on the establishment of the largest Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within this decade.
Hence, with this trajectory and proven track record with a promise to accomplish more, it will only be right that the APC Delegates who are truly concerned about the economic plights of Nigeria, vote a tested and trusted man in the person of Professor Yemi Osinbajo who has not failed in his promises to enhance the social investment programmes for Nigerians to put an end to unemployment and chart a new chapter to fulfill the Nigerian dream.

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