Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a group, Yoruba Youth Assembly (YYA), has urged all the major political parties in the country to zone their presidential tickets to the southern part of the country in the interest of equity and fairness.
The group in a statement signed by its President, Olarinde Thomas, said political parties should give priority to democratic balance in their internal electioneering engagements to ensure that they don’t compromise equity and fairness in the process of zoning their presidential tickets
The YYA advised the Federal Government to pay deliberate attention to the issue of education in the country. It stated that lack of such attention had effected an ugly reality that has put up a situation of a high number of out-of-school children in the country and this is becoming very embarrassing for the image of the country.
The group said: “We resolutely demand a restructuring of the country, in a magnitude that more power is devolved to the states, to ensure measurable developments across the regions of the country. 
“Relatively, we are of the opinion that the present status-quo of governance run the country is unproductive and retrogressive and there is a need for a review of the present form of governance in the country, for a progressive statehood.
Not only this alone, they urge the federal government to pay deliberate attention to the ‘Issue of Education’ in the country; as lack of such attention had effected an ugly reality that has put up a situation of high number of out-of-school children in the country, and this is becoming very embarrassing for the image of the country. Also, that the Government should comprehensively meet up with the UNESCO standard on budgeting for education.
They also maintained that “As young people of the Yoruba extraction, we urge and charge the security agencies to be effectively proactive in guaranteeing the protection of lives and properties of the people of the Nigerian State”
In conclusion however, they maintained that “in the spirit of patriotism and collective well-being, we call on our leaders to be mindful and conscious of their utterances and deeds, to avoid manifesting a situation that is capable of setting up the country on fire.
