The Arewa Youth Consultative
Forum (AYCF) on Sunday warned Nigerians against allowing Senator Ahmed Lawan,
to become the President of the ninth Senate.
The AYCF linked the support Lawan
is currently getting from some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) as related to the secret pursuit of personal ambitions ahead of 2023
general elections.
In a statement on
Sunday by Yerima Abbas Shettima, the President of AYCF, the forum fingered
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the APC, and Nasir El-Rufai,
the governor of Kaduna state, as being behind Lawan’s ambition in a desperate
move ahead of 2023 polls.
The statement added, “We advise
the Tinubus and Elrufais of this world to shove aside any desperate move on
2023 and allow a level-playing field for all political offices.
“No one should hide behind any
political party to turn Nigerians into mere manipulable pawn. That will be
undemocratic imposition and totally unacceptable,” Shettima said.
The group recalled how it
predicted that Senator Danjuma Goje would step down when he is pressured into
submission using his pending case at the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC).
“We also declared that he could
alternatively be forced to step down from the race in exchange for his freedom
from EFCC’s hot chase,” it stated.
“We are happy to inform all
Nigerian progressives that we have been vindicated in all the public
declarations we made recently on the contentious seat of the Senate presidency.
“It is obvious that the
desperation to make the road to Senate presidency smooth for Tinubu’s acolyte
(Sen Lawan), Buhari’s foot-soldiers, especially Governor Nasir El-Rufai are
coming up with a new narrative to pull a blind wool over our eyes.
“The Kaduna governor is trying to
sell a dummy to Nigerians that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) has
done the needful regarding Goje’s case with the EFCC.
“And we ask: Which
attorney-general, when all ministers have since resigned
“What is the meaning of taking a
case that was under investigation by an independent body, to an
attorney-general who is not the judge in the court handling the Senator Goje
case?
“These are questions begging for
answers and we are tempted to assume that the EFCC is about to be hindered from
continuing with the case because Chief Tinubu, who has been pushing Buhari
harder, has vested interest to do with his 2023 presidential ambition,” AYCF
claimed.
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