The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday urged Nigerian youths to place national interest above personal ambition and embrace service and sacrifice as drivers of the country’s recovery and long‑term development.
O’tega Ogra, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital & New Media who also serves as Deputy Director‑General Media, Communications & Public Affairs, City Boy Movement in a statement said Gbajabiamila in a goodwill message to participants at the City Boy Movement’s 2026 National Retreat, themed “Youth, Unity and Action,” explained that the nation’s future would be shaped intentionally by a generation willing to convert vision into concrete steps, not left to chance.
“No nation rises above the quality of its youth,” he said, calling the retreat a strategic investment “at a critical period of economic transformation and institutional renewal” under President Bola Tinubu.
He credited the administration with confronting structural problems through “bold economic reforms,” including removal of the fuel subsidy, unification of the foreign‑exchange market and a modernization of the tax system.
“These bold reforms are steadily restoring economic stability, with inflation easing and renewed investor confidence in the Nigerian economy,”
The Chief of Staff said, adding that investments in infrastructure, human capital and youth empowerment — including expanded student loans and technical‑skills programs — were beginning to produce “early dividends” intended for lasting national renewal.
He praised Barrister Seyi Tinubu, patron and national leader of the City Boy Movement, for his role in shaping the organisation and its focus on disciplined, purpose‑driven youth leadership, and he described the retreat’s theme as timely, saying unity would allow Nigeria’s diversity to become a source of strength.
Gbajabiamila tasked movement members to act as ambassadors of the administration’s “Renewed Hope” agenda by building community bridges, promoting peaceful engagement and inspiring confidence among young Nigerians.
Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadeji, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President called for intensified grassroots mobilisation and institutional strengthening to consolidate the administration’s objectives.
At the retreat, Francis Oluwatosin Shoga, Director-General of the City Boy Movement, unveiled a strategic roadmap aimed at mobilising 10 million youth votes for President Tinubu’s 2027 re‑election campaign.
Shoga said the plan would prioritise ward‑level organisation and community advocates over social‑media‑centric tactics to counter misinformation and deepen local engagement across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Tosin Odufuwa, national secretary of the movement, said the retreat was intended to sharpen strategy and coordination rather than deliver ceremonial speeches.
“May our conversations produce clarity, may our strategy produce victory and may our unity produce a stronger movement,” he said.
Day Two focused on national leadership, mobilisation and strategy and convened the movement’s state coordinators, National Working Committee members, and a range of government and party stakeholders, including the movement’s patron and the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande.
