{"id":400845,"date":"2021-10-05T07:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=400845"},"modified":"2021-10-05T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:23:54","slug":"2023-you-wont-get-power-on-a-platter-osinbajo-warns-young-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=400845","title":{"rendered":"2023: You won&#8217;t get power on a platter &#8211; Osinbajo warns young Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has advised youths to contest for elective positions during the 2023 general elections if they want to assume power.<\/p>\n<p>Osinbajo stated this during a two-day retreat for young lawmakers in Lagos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that power is never given on a platter.<\/p>\n<p>The vice-president who was represented by the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Babajide Omoworare, said the not-too-young-to-run movement would be defeated if the youths fail to contest for elective positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn preparation for 2023 general elections, we must realise that greater participation of our youths should not be mere rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower is never handed over on a platter. If you don\u2019t bid, you can\u2019t win. We must also register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole essence is to ensure that youths get involved in the process of democracy and also in the parliamentary process,\u201d Osinbajo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has advised youths to contest for elective positions during the 2023 general elections if they want to assume power. Osinbajo stated this during a two-day retreat for young lawmakers in Lagos on Monday. He warned that power is never given on a platter. The vice-president who was represented by the Senior Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,5732],"class_list":["post-400845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-osinbajo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}