*EDO YOUTHS CALL FOR SACK OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR YOUTH AND GENDER:*


_*The commissioner for Youths & Gender, Barr. Adaze Emwanta has sacrilegiously made one of his close aide, Sarah Igunbor, a non management member of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Edo state chapter, head of transition committee.*_

You will recall that the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Edo State chapter have been witnessing a rift in the past few weeks following the failure of the suspended Executive committee led by Comrade Osahon Davison Obasuyi to put machineries in place to usher in a new administration.

In a bid to resolving it's crisis and restore peace back to the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Edo State Chapter - constitutionally, the management committee which is the second highest decision making organ of the organization after congress, in it's wisdom, constituted a seven (7) man caretaker committee to put in motion, modalities for the conduct of an election in 60 days which the dissolved executive failed to achieve.

Consequently, the Commissioner decided to call for a truce meeting between the new leadership of the council headed by Comrade Ehis Osagie and the dissolved executive of Osahon Obasuyi in order to amicably resolve the lingering issues bedeviling the council.

After a painstaking meeting, it was clear that the Hon. Commissioner who is supposed to be an unbiased umpire became an interested party.

Sequel to the above, a publication sponsored by the said commissioner took his interest too far by announcing one Sarah Igunbor an Aide to Governor Obaseki and also a social media promoter of the current government, Chairman of the transition committee for another six (6) months, which is in total contravention of the constitutional provisions of the NYCN as it relates to this said issue.

It is public knowledge that the said Sarah Igunbor is a very close ally of the Commissioner for Youths & Gender and had promised her a week ago of this appointment, according to close sources.

The entire youths of Edo state wish to therefore state categorically, that the said Sarah Igunbor is not and has never being a member of the National Youth Council, as membership is not on individual basis rather on organization as clearly spell out in it's constitution.

The youth council by functionality is not a partisan organization. We therefore call on the commissioner to immediately withdraw that list and tender an unreserved apology to the entire youths of Edo within 24hrs of this publication.


We also urge him not to drag the pragmatic governor and the government of Edo state to the mud.

The general public should be aware that the National Youth Council of Nigeria is a non-partisan and independent umbrella youth organization.