The Nigeria Youth Initiative for Good Governance (NYIGG), has rejected Sen. Bola Tinubu, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and others, urging
President Muhammadu Buhari to handover power to a youth.
NYIGG told Buhari to honour his words and redeem his pledge of handing over power to a youth within the age of 35-50, at the end of his tenure.
Mr Almustapha Abdullahi and Femi Lawson, the group’s Chairman and Secretary respectively, made the appeal during a news conference on Saturday, in Abuja.
The group stressed that Nigeria’s unity was non negotiable, and called on all citizens to always put Nigeria first in order to promote the country’s unity in diversity.
Abdullahi, who tasked Nigerians to unite and fight their common enemy through the ballot box, noted that the country needed leaders who would defend and protect the interests of the masses in the face of its many challenges.
According to him, Nigeria will be greater by electing a God fearing, youthful, intelligent and dynamic leader.
”Our challenges and problems as a people do not respect ethnic boundaries. They cut across all spheres and the solution cannot be found in ethnocentric politics, which is myopic and retrogressive.
” Nigerians from Abia to Zamfara, and from Lagos to Maiduguri, crave for nothing more than a nation where their hopes and that of their children can be realised.
”They dream of a country where they can dare to aspire and be whatever they want to be, and the system to support them achieve all their aspirations and dreams,” Abdullahi said.
Aluta News reports that the group has vowed to work against the old order in which persons in key leadership positions were more driven by avarice and ignoble ambition, rather than inclusiveness and common good of all Nigerians.
On his part, Lawson pledged that the group would continue to promote Nigeria’s goals of deepening understanding about the core principles of patriotism and promoting peaceful co-existence among citizens.
He said NYIGG would ensure the re-orientation and mobilisation of young people in Nigeria to take lead in the campaign of promoting the country’s corporate entity, taking advantage of its numerical strength and vibrancy.
According to him, the group has initiated the process of mobilising Nigerian youths to work against any politician that is above the age of 50 years and seeking for presidential position come 2023.
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