The All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate for Ibarapa East/Ido federal constituency, Engr Aderemi Oseni, has restated his commitment to tackling youths’ restiveness and unemployment in the constituency through the market-on-demand Digital Skill Acquisition Programme to discourage the scourge of ritual killings and get-rich-quick syndrome.
Oseni, who put the total number of youths already captured in the first phase of the programme at over one thousand, in a statement by his media aide, Idowu Ayodele, on Wednesday, said his primary purpose of the training programme is to ensure that no fewer than one thousand youths are taken out of joblessness in each of the three centres within a short period.
According to the statement, the youths are being trained in Digital Marketing, Graphics Design, Product Design, Data Science, Web Development, and Passive Income Blueprint, among other things.
Speaking with journalists shortly after unveiling the programme’s first phase at Apete, Ido Local Government Area of Oyo state last Saturday, Oseni assured that the training would fully equip the youths with needed manpower towards self-development and sustainability.
The businessman cum Clergy further disclosed that another centre of the Youth Digital Skill Acquisition Programme is situated at Owode. At the same time, another one is located at Eruwa to serve the youths at Ibarapa East Local Government Area of the state.
Oseni added that he is fully committed to arming the army of youths with valuable skills so that they can contribute positively to society’s socio-political and economic development.
Recalling the multiplier effect of the ICT centre he donated to the Engineering Department, Polytechnic, Ibadan in 2008, the APC candidate was hopeful that the three Digital Skills Acquisition Centres in his constituency would help the beneficiaries become self-reliant and productive in the Information Technology industry.
He reassured that the beneficiaries would not only be trained during the programme but also developed until they became successful in their chosen careers.
He hinted that what is being accomplished now is a shadow of the greater things to occur, adding that when elected in the forthcoming general election, the people of Ibarapa East/Ido federal Constituency will witness real dividends of democracy as never before.
Present at the event is top leaders of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) in Ido Local Government Area of the state, led by the Oyo state Representative on the Federal Character Commission ( FCC) Abuja, and a former Commissioner of Education, Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela, a respected leader of the party in the local government.
Others present are students, technocrats, artisans, traders, and members of the state’s organised labour force.
At the Youth Digital Skill Acquisition Programme venue in Apete, Ibadan, on Saturday, many of the youths who spoke with journalists praised the APC House of Representatives candidate for coming up with the laudable idea of assisting the teeming jobless youths in society.
“We are indeed praying and working to ensure that this man, Engr Oseni is elected into the House of Representatives by next year because he truly loves the people. He is too compassionate about the plight of the people. Unlike what we used to have in those elected in the past.
”Look at what he is doing, building bridges, giving electricity by procuring transformers to communities and investing in the youths. No one has ever done this before on this scale. It has never happened before ”, a young lady and a beneficiary, Monsurat Adeyemo said.
Just a few months ago, the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate, Engr Oseni commenced works on the Ologuneru and Aretu bridges in Ibadan communities to ease the movement of people, goods and services.
