The Arewa Youth Consultative
Forum, AYCF, has adduced reasons the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its
presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, should pick a vice presidential
candidate from the South-East.
According to the Arewa youths,
handing the number-two position to the South East will make the people of the
region feel they are part of the country.
Speaking with Dailypost on
Thursday, Yerima Shettima, the President of the AYCF, noted that it was the
marginalization of the region by successive governments that gave rise to
agitations being witnessed in the geopolitical zone.
Shettima said the South-East must
be shown that they truly belong to this country not just by giving them the VP
slot, but by allowing them produce Nigeria’s president.
According to him, “I will advise
that the PDP and Atiku pick the Vice President from the East. The Vice
President should come from the East now. Let us be all inclusive in our ways of
life; and in our thinking.
“Let the Vice President come from
the East so that they’ll not feel they are not part of this country. Some of
these agitations coming from the East were as a result of this marginalization
attitude.
“Then the East has to coordinate
themselves and be very united so that not only the vice president… We’re
hopeful that with time, power will definitely go back to the East. Because they
are part of the country.
“They are not out of the country,
they are part of Nigeria. So we must be free to carry them along; they must be
free to demonstrate that they are part of Nigeria. We must carry them along
without laying abuses, molestation.
“Without abusing the sensibility
of any individual or group of people or any community. what is good for me
should also be good for another man so we must be free to apply the principle
of fairness to all.”
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