To the youth of Nigeria,
Our attention has been brought to the negative posts on social media about The 67Million Youth Initiative. As the originators of the initiative we owe it to all the delegates that we come forward and set the record straight for the brave delegates that believe in this initiative and signed their names on it.
Seven of us initially came together to start this initiative: Maryam Laushi (founding member of Not-To-Young-To-Run); Asuquo Ekpenyoung (PDP Commissioner of Finance for Cross River); Mohammad Sani Abdullahi (APC Commissioner of Budget and Planning for Kaduna); Mark Okoye (APGA Commissioner of Budget and Planning for Anambra State); Adebola Williams (Co-founder of RED); Moji Rhodes (First female deputy Chief of Staff for Lagos State); and Luqman Edu (CEO FilmoRealty). As young progressive leaders we purposefully chose to build an initiative that cuts across party lines, religions, and ethnic backgrounds.
We jointly signed up to the following guidelines so that the initiative could not be hijacked for ulterior motives. We agreed on the following:
Once we reached a consensus, EACH trustee convinced 15 people to join this initiative as delegates. A lot of attention has been put on the Muslim APC delegates but if you carefully go through the delegate list you will find delegates from cross-section of political parties, faith, and tribes. To date, the initiative has only been funded by delegates and supporters that have donated between 10,000 to 1 million naira.
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