The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has pledged to sustain reforms and programmes to guarantee better opportunities for youths in the state.

The governor made the vow while receiving the executives of the Coalition for Southern Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Government House, Benin on Wednesday.

Obaseki, who was represented by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Hon. Osaigbovo Iyoha, said the government would continue to support the youths and provide them the opportunity to live life to the fullest.

Iyoha, who identified the youths as the future of the party and the country, urged them not to lose hope in the country, but to be united and join other stakeholders in the quest to rescue Nigeria and reposition it for greatness and prosperity.

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Iyoha said: “Obaseki is the chairman of the PDP registration and the party has registered about 600,000 people in the state. We want to assure you that PDP is Edo and Edo is PDP. We are doing everything to ensure we move the party to the centre.”

On his part, the chairman of the coalition, Chief Nwankwo Godwin, said the group was drawn from 17 states from the Southern part of the country, which comprises the South-East, South-West and South-South.

Godwin said the coalition was aimed at fostering unity within Southern PDP, adding: “Most of our youths in this area are left behind but as a group, we are working to bring unity within the youths in the region.

“We commend the governor for being a lover of the youths and appeal to him to be the patron of this noble body.

“We want to go round the 359 local government areas in the 17 states to mobilise the youths to participate in politics,” he stated.

The Star