Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that leadership at all levels requires a lot of sacrifice and commitment.<\/p>\n
Lawan made the remark when the Yobe State Students Association, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) chapter, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja, according to a statement by the Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), Mohammed Isa, in Abuja.<\/p>\n
The Students were on excursion to the National Assembly to watch the Senate in plenary with a view to learning more about parliamentary proceedings.<\/p>\n
Addressing the students in his office, Lawan who also hails from Yobe State said leadership should be seen as responsibility to be discharged to the people.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeadership at every level requires a lot of sacrifice, a lot of commitment and even when some of our people will say political office are things you can just handle anyhow, that is not correct<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people elect you they give you responsibility and what you do with that office is between you and your God, and of course you are responsible to them as well as to God.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how small an office is, it is important we continue to do our best to discharge our responsibility,\u201d he said..<\/p>\n
The Senate President said Yobe state and the North East zone in general is ranked the poorest in the country by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a longtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to see an improvement in the lives of our people that is why we are in politics,\u201d Lawan said.<\/p>\n
The Senate President congratulated the students for finding themselves in the University, a feat he said many young people were not opportune to achieve<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever it is, you have shown the commitment to life, your families and yourself, and that is what we need in Nigeria. That we are able to re-orient our youths particularly, and of course give them the support they require,\u201d Lawan said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the leader of the association, Mr. Mohammed Idris cited unemployment as the main challenge of the youths in Yobe state and commended the Senate President for the numerous entrepreneurship programmes he initiated for the benefit of his constituents at Yobe North senatorial district.<\/p>\n
Idris said the association has designed several entrepreneurship programmes for the benefits of Yobe state students and sought for the intervention of the Senate President to actualise the programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that leadership at all levels requires a lot of sacrifice and commitment. Lawan made the remark when the Yobe State Students Association, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) chapter, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja, according to a statement by the Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), Mohammed Isa, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[648,1050],"class_list":["post-22752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-lawan","tag-yobe-state"],"yoast_head":"\n