Shettima Yerima, National
President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
According to the youth leader, age
and health have limited the performance of the president and there is need for
him to give up leadership for a younger person.
Speaking with SaharaTV, Yerima
said the Buhari-led government had failed woefully in terms of security and
employment, stressing that the country has been bleeding while the president
goes about attending parties.
He said, “The situation is really
sad and uncalled for. It is a challenging period for the nation, no doubt.
Bloodletting everywhere, coupled with poverty and unemployment. If the
government was up and doing, the situation would have changed.
“From my observations, I think
the killings in the nation is a script people are working on to disunite
Nigeria and they are trying to align it to a particular ethnic group or
religion. Call them Fulani or whatever, a criminal is always a criminal and
should be treated as one.”
Speaking further, the youth leader
said lack of proper coordination among security agencies had also contributed
to the lingering menace.
He added, “If you look at it
critically, the public don’t event have confidence in the system. They have no
confidence to challenge the security agencies whenever they fail.
“To an extent, you don’t expect
anything good to come out of this.”
On the controversy trailing the
presence of the president at a recent wedding in Kano, Yerima said it was
uncalled for.
“To me, there’s nothing wrong in
attending to a wedding, but it was a wrong time for him to go when the country
is boiling. An injury to all is an injury to all. Why going for a wedding with
25 governors while there blood all over the country. I think it is uncalled?”
Asked if the president should be
given another chance in 2019, Yerima said it would do him good to honourably
bow out.
He voiced his conviction thus,
‘He has done his best. There’s a limit he can do at this age. He’s actually
sick. To coordinate even his family activities at this age is challenging, so
he needs to rest.
“To me personally, I think the
best thing for him to do is bow out and handover to the younger generation.”
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