A member of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Timi Frank, says Emmanuel Macron’s emergence as winner of Saturday’s presidential election in France, is a challenge to African youths.
At 39, Macron will be the youngest president to rule France.
Frank stated this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, and congratulated Macron, the people of France and the country’s Embassy in Nigeria for a successful election.
Macron won the poll with about 65.5 per cent of the votes cast as against his opponent, Le Pen, who garnered 34.5 per cent of the ballots.
Frank said that the resounding victory of the young Macron, who was Economy Minister, should be a thing of joy and encouragement to youths in Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa.
He, therefore, challenged African youths and Nigerians in particularly, to stand up for positions of leadership and take Macron’s emergence as president as a challenge.
He charged the youths to come out and join politics through which political power could be attained.
“I’m calling on African youths to come out of their comfort zones and be part of one political party or the other.
“African youths are intelligent; many are well educated with abilities to turn things around positively. It is high time we dropped our fears and take a bold step like Macron has done.
“We may be good at identifying faults in governance across the continent today, but unless we participate and take our fate in our hands, the expected change might not come soon,” Frank said.
He advised the France’s president-elect to prove to the world that people of his age could do even better in positions of leadership.
He urged Macron, who ran as an independent candidate, to carry everybody along in his administration, and foster unity in France as he delivered on his campaign promises.
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