 Still under 23 elections ahead of the general elections, some youths under the aegis of national youths inclusive in the governance organization NYIJL have decried decades of political marginalization of young Nigerians. As part of efforts to address the problem, the group held a sensitization campaign during its South-South Zonal-Cocoa strategic meeting in Portaqut, rivosted capital. It's for inclusion and equal opportunity through negotiation for a better future in the 2023 general elections. The report. Addressing journalists at the meeting in Portaqut, convener of the group Sherif Yusuf Banki explained that the meeting was to strategize for more youths inclusion in the first coming elections. Banki observed that youths had been worst hit since they returned to democracy in 1999 after three decades of military rule. He opined that Nigerian youths can only realize their potential and participate actively in the struggle for social transformation when they are empowered. Young people must be given the opportunity to contribute to the development of their communities through political participation that grants them access to structures of governance where decisions are taken. That access and opportunity to participate must be provided as a matter of rights and not a privilege. Banki observed that youths are yet to find a strong foothold in the political system, admitting that the task before them is enormous and challenging. Some of the participants who spoke with newsmen said the older generation had reduced the vibrant, knowledgeable and innovative portion of the country to special advisers at various levels of government or use the youth to foment trouble during elections. The presence and status quo of increased youth marginalization is built in some part as a factor that foils insurgency, criminality and virus across the legs and prets of our country. My fellow young Nigerians in less than one year we will be going to call to elect our new set of leaders across the ladder. It's all about getting themselves involved and this is the process so they must be the participant. There is no time sitting on defense any longer. You heard the other time that we have lazy youths. Why? So when times come for this political march as somebody, as an active politician, they nickname them lazy youths. A man, a youth that is lazy, can fight for you. A youth that are lazy, can be able to pick weapons to fight for you. You give them weapons to fight. But when the right time comes for them to stand on their ground as a society, as a people that are simply custodians in the society, you discover that they always push them aside. Oh, what are the reasons? Because they refuse to know when they are excited. But with this clarion call, we are crying all to the youth that they should work up to their responsibilities. Take your stand and do the needsful. We are intending to participate fully this time by mobilizing the youth in our various areas to go out for their PVC. The era of those period where we went, you see youth crying up and down, I am, it talks, I am this, to work for them. We want to keep that era. We have been conversing, calling them to go out for their PVC legislation because we know that 2023 is going to be dynamic. The group urged the young people to play active roles in determining the political future of the country by engaging political actors with demands for inclusion and equal access to political participation.