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<\/p>\nImoukhuede made the clarification while featuring on \u2018Guest of the Week\u2019 on OSRC TV on Thursday in Akure, monitored by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent.<\/p>\n
Imoukhuede dismissed reports that some of the volunteers had threatened to vote against the government in 2019 should they be dropped, saying the extension was a benevolence on the part of the government.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody can threaten the government; even those we had exited from the programme because of some sharp practices could not threaten us. The extension had no political coloration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe purpose for which we designed the programme was to enhance their transition and since those for whom we designed it still have issues, we need to tidy up all loose ends which is what the enhancement intends to achieve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The SSA expressed satisfaction with his interface with over 14,000 volunteers in Ondo State who vowed to support the next level agenda of the present government.<\/p>\n
According to him, the volunteers have proven to be credible assets to drive President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interface was a coming together of the volunteers who wanted to show their appreciation to the president and his Vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and they made a good show with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was enthused with what I saw at the interface with Ondo volunteers and fully appreciative of this. We are taking this campaign to other states.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we know we have credible assets who are very grateful for what Mr President and the vice president have done and think they deserve re-lection which is why they have decided to sign on to the next level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Imoukhuede, who is also the national coordinator of the N-Power programme, explained that the extension was to smoothen their transition for permanent job placements and opportunities.<\/p>\n
He clarified that the N-Power scheme was to harness Nigeria\u2019s young demography through appropriate skill development, provision of relevant work skills acquisition and development, and linking outcomes to fixing inadequate public services.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them are already good entrepreneurs, like Gbayisemore here in Ondo, who doesn\u2019t want any other job, but just to build his business. Iyenche in Ijebu, and many others like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, let\u2019s begin to catch young entrepreneurs, let\u2019s begin to patch those who actually want to continue in formal jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s also continue to patch up those who want to be able to earn in two or three places which we call freelance, so they don\u2019t want any contract to one person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
No fewer than 500,000 volunteers are currently part of the two batches of The N-Power scheme, a Social Investment Programme, SIP, Of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
Participants are engaged in different areas of public service, including education (N-Teach), health (N-Health), agriculture (N-Agro), building\/construction (N-Build) with a monthly stipend of N30,000.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Afolabi Imoukhuede, a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Muhammadu Buhar on Job Creation, has said extension of the Batch 1 of the N-Power scheme for 200,000 volunteers beyond the November 2018 deadline has no political undertones. Imoukhuede made the clarification while featuring on \u2018Guest of the Week\u2019 on OSRC TV on Thursday in Akure, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9252,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6951],"class_list":["post-67935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-npower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935","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=67935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}