19/10/2025
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‘They’re leaders today’ — Obasanjo calls for inclusion of youth in governance
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, has called for the inclusion of young people in governance and leadership at all levels.
Speaking on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, during the grand reunion and maiden lecture series of the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), United Kingdom Alumni Association, Nigerian chapter, Obasanjo said the youth must be part of decision-making today, not just seen as leaders of tomorrow.
The former president said elders and leaders across society owe the younger generation a duty to provide truthful, transparent, and selfless leadership that secures the future rather than depleting it.
Delivering a lecture titled “The Challenges of Youth in a Fractured World”, Obasanjo, represented by Samuel Daramola, deputy director of the Olusegun Obasanjo Leadership Institute, reflected on how today’s generation of youth are growing up in a far more uncertain and unstable world than those before them.
