YIAGA Africa has championed the cause for legislative actions that support job creation, enabling environment for young entrepreneurs, and access to quality education.
    
The move, in partnership with UK International Development, the group said was to create a platform for students and young people to interact with their legislators and sustain youth interest in politics through its NotTooYoungToRun hubs, where issues on education, employment and other sundry issues are discussed with the legislators with proffered opportunities for their successes.
 
Speaking on the theme: ‘Empowering Future: Building Local Opportunities for Student Successes,’ at a town hall meeting of Lagos Mainland Local Government Area (LGA) elected representatives with students from University of Lagos (UNILAG), Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) and Yabatech, among others, a member of the Lagos State House of Representatives, Mainland Constituency 2, Akinbode Ajayi, said good governance entails whom the citizens choose to govern them.
     
He urged that for youths and citizens to enjoy good governance, they must vote credible candidates into power, even as they also participate in politics to vote in good leaders.
 
To achieve political inclusion, he said the youths must align with a political party, be actively involved in politics even from the local level, know their representatives and be fully involved in the electioneering processes.
 
On access to quality education, the legislator urged that the government should bring innovation into the curriculum to make the youths independent and job creators. 
     
On what young people want, Coordinator for UNILAG, Tolulope Hicks, said young people, who make up the labor market and are considered leaders of today are pivotal for the growth, advancement, and development of any nation.
    
According to her, to make a nation strong, there is a need to build the youths, and to cripple the growth of a nation is to deprive the youths.  She stressed avenues such as innovation and creativity, advocacy and activism, education and skill development, global connectivity, and community engagement
young people play in shaping the future.
     
Hub Coordinator for LASUSTECH, Alabi Abiodun, said that the NotTooYoungToRun, which is a social movement committed to gender and political inclusion of youths as well as transformative leadership and civic engagement, is driven to address the political exclusion of youths and enhance electoral competitiveness.