The Arewa Consultative Youths
Movement (ACYM) says it will conduct a mock election for top presidential
aspirants from the north to ascertain their popularity ahead of the 2019
general election.
Kabiru Yusuf, ACYM president,
said this on Thursday in Abuja while speaking at the National Delegate Congress
of the movement.
Yusuf, who was re-elected at the
congress, said the aspirants would include President Muhammadu Buhari, former
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state and
Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa state, among others.
He explained that this is to
ensure that members of the movement give their support to a youth friendly
aspirant that would share their aspirations and visions for Nigerian youth
toward a developed and united country.
“We shall in due course, conduct
a mock election with a view to feeling the pulse of Arewa Youth in Nigeria and eventually
decide on a most prospective candidate,” he said.
“The mock election will soon
commence on our website, and it will last for a period of 60 days before the
announcement of the results.
“I enjoin all of us to think
critically about this, before we make our choice and to mobilise our members to
take active part.
“There cannot be a better chance
for us to contribute to give Nigeria the kind of leadership it deserves in the
21st century.”
He called on youth across the
country to ensure that they register and obtain their permanent voters´ card
(PVC) ahead of the 2019 general election.
Yusuf said that it was time for
members of the movement to enthrone good leadership in the country, because
according to him, the country’s past leaders had failed the people.
“We must take the bull by the
horn, we must change the narrative, the time to make this correction is now,
and we must not delay any more,” he said.
He maintained that those
benefiting from the poverty in the land must be stopped, because the education
and general well-being of the youth in the region were not their priority.
“They have failed us, in line
with that, we shall focus on the 2019 general elections, it is yet another
chance to correct the leadership problems facing the North and Nigeria
generally,” Yusuf said.
He said the movement is poised to
give Nigerians a candidate that would rebuild and unify the country as well as
obey the rule of law.
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