President of the Arewa Youth
Consultative Forum, AYCF, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, has revealed what the
northern youths are doing to ensure President Muhammdu Buhari does not return
to power in 2019.
Buhari had earlier in the week
declared to re-contest in 2019.
Shettima also attacked the
governors of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State
and others for pressuring the President to seek reelection.
He described the governors and
some Buhari’s ministers as failures who have nothing to offer.
Shettima, speaking with Sun, said
his group was going around the country mobilizing the youths to obtain the PVCs
with which President Buhari would be sacked.
He said, “We have expected this
and we have already prepared for him. We are ensuring that every Nigerian youth
obtains his or her voter’s card.
“We will ensure that we secure
our votes and our votes count. We didn’t expect him to say that he was not
going to contest. This is democracy and no one can deny him the right to
contest.
“He had admitted that he ought to
have been doing something better than he is doing, but age and ill health have
actually overtaken a lot of things in him.
“So, we were thinking that, as a
man with integrity; a man who had said he would only go for one term, should
understand that he would be under pressure put on him by his cabinet members
and governors, who have failed and want to use him to be relevant.
“Because of the president’s age,
and health, these people want to control Nigeria, and they have to pressure him
in order for them to remain in power. Since he has made up his mind, there is
no problem, but we are going to ensure that he fails when the time comes.
“We know he is under pressure by
some governors, ministers and kitchen cabinet, we are also mindful that some of
these governors have failed woefully and don’t have anything to show to their
people, especially, the governors of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara, they are
calamitous to our society.
“They have nothing to offer. If
Buhari is not contesting, they are finished because they have allegedly amassed
public funds. They cannot explain what they did with the Paris refund loan.
“Many of them are in a mess and
to them, it is a do or die, but for us, it is not so. The tenet of democracy
must come to play and all of us must ensure that we insist, advocate and
sensitise Nigerian youths to get their PVC.”
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