GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS, we are before you today humbled by the grace of God and grateful to the founding fathers of democracy for this awesome, albeit matchless freedom of the press. Through it today, our heart desires find full expression.

We are the CAMPUS LEADERS NETWORK, PLATEAU STATE, an organized group of conscientious young leaders actuated by the spirit of patriotism, hardwork and honesty with members across all the tertiary institutions of PLATEAU STATE. In this group are SUG PRESIDENTS of tertiary institutions on the Plateau and chapter PRESIDENTS of the National Association of PLATEAU STATE Students (NAPSS), and some national tribal Students associations in PLATEAU STATE.

We are here today to intimate you of our secret battles and yarning for a better PLATEAU STATE, and to declare our support for DR. NENTAWE G. YILWADA.

Like the rest of the nation, PLATEAU STATE today is need of an emancipator, a leader that will stand up to confront issues others ran away from. While we acknowledge the pious and indelible impacts of previous administrations, we are not unconscious of the demands of our time.

Daily, we rise to battles for survival in at atmosphere occasioned by a decaying economic system, administrative misfiring and lack of will to live by the tenets of a democratic system. A lot of youths have becomes tools in the hands of radicals, only relevant where an illegality is to be committed. We cannot ignore the Thousands of graduates who loiter offices daily with brown envelopes in search of jobs and opportunities.
Our communities lay in ruins. People are dying daily and our people are losing control over their resources. Our aged parents are crying daily for a nation that listens.
It is on this note that we made it a duty to get it right this time. Like some patriotic few who refused to give up, we stand in the coldness of the nights and the spine-chilling scorches of the sunny day in a religious search for a better leadership that will correct the errors of the past and consolidate on developments of the previous administrations. That search didn’t go fruitless. We found a leader, an emancipator and a demonstrator of a kind of leadership PLATEAU STATE hungers for. That leader is Dr. NENTAWE G. YILWADA.
Our choice and endorsement of him isn’t informed by any clandestine ambition, but out of conviction that his Manifesto better fits into the kind of a democratic system and a plateau state we all long for. We are moved by conviction to support Dr Nentawe as students and youths on the plateau because of his ACEES Agenda which are; Agriculture,
Critical infrastructural development,
Economic, gender and youth empowerment
Education, and Security.

As Student of different groups and diverse backgrounds, we are united today not by lecture hours, but by an ideology captained by Dr. NENTAWE G. YILWADA branded by his ACEES Agenda (Agriculture ,Critical infrastructure, Economic gender and youth empowerment, Education , Security) and his accessibility to the youths of plateau State. In all honour and deepest deference, we today endorse the Candidacy of Dr. NENTAWE G. YILWADA. We in the same vein order our teaming members all over PLATEAU STATE to from today, Join our group as it metamorphosis into the GENERATION NEXT CAMPUS NETWORK.

This choice is for democracy and for the overriding interest of PLATEAU STATE.

Thank you and God bless
Comr. Emerson Daniel Akpi,
Chairman, Generation Next campus Network.

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BEING A TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE PRESENTED BY CAMPUS LEADERS NETWORK, PLATEAU STATE. Thursday 12 may 2022