The Arewa Youth Consultative
Forum (AYCF) has cautioned “a certain Southwest political leader” and “his
collaborators in the APC-led Federal Government” to steer clear of Senate
President, Bukola Saraki and jettison “the new plot to unleash EFCC and other
anti-corruption agencies in order to intimidate the man.”
This was contained in the text of
press conference presented to newsmen in Lagos by AYCF National President,
Yerima Shettima on Monday.
He accused the Lagos-based
political leader of the Southwest and “some of his cronies in the corridors of
power of planning to embarrass Senate President Bukola Saraki using the
government’s anti-corruption agencies and based on politically-motivated charges”.
He noted that “much as the AYCF
supports the war against corruption, we will resist any subtle attempt to hide
behind politics to intimidate our sons in positions of authority”.
Alhaji Yerima also declared that
the North had come of age and no one single Nigerian should determine the fate
of prominent Northerners in government, “because we are not robots.”
He charged the Southwest
political leader and his associates to start whatever change process they want
from their base as “charity begins at home”.
He also stated that “through the
total dominance and manipulation of political and economic power, the Southwest
has badly shortchanged the North, making it’s people irrelevant in the running
of government for more than four years.
“There is no way after cornering
all the juicy Federal Government appointments and skewing development projects
in favor of the Southwest anyone will dare approach the North with the issue of
seeking for Presidency in 2023. That will be totally unacceptable”.
The group, he said, would “use
all legitimate avenues for resisting the manipulations of one man whose primary
goal in life is the 2023 Presidency and we’re assuring him that even that is no
longer possible and a waste of his resources because the country belongs to all
of us”.
The group also noted that the era
of any politician calling the shots in other people’s territory was long gone,
adding that “we’re not in a Banana Republic” and “the world has moved on from
the era of political impunity”.
The AYCF also told the said
Southwest political leader to “bear in mind that Senate President Saraki is our
illustrious son in the North and we’re proud that he didn’t turn his back on
the people who voted him into power.
“This is our open, democratic
declaration of caution, not just for meddlesome politician of the Southwest but
any politician outside the North who may want to dare us politically”.
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