Emergency Rule: Arewa Youths want Governors Removed
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May 20, 2013

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has asked the Federal Government to remove the governors of the three states – Borno, Yobe and Adamawa – where a state of emergency was declared last Tuesday.

The leading organisation of northern youths stated that there was the need to remove the political structures of the affected states, since the governors, as chief security officers, had failed to bring the violence in their states under control, despite the Federal Government’s support.

The President of AYCF, Mr. Yerima Shettima, told SUNDAY PUNCH that northern youths were in support of the emergency rule, but would want the state governors removed to make the emergency rule holistic and effective.

He said, “If the Federal Government wants to deal with this issue holistically, we think the state governors and the political structures should be put aside, so that at the end of the day, we will know the people who are the sponsors of violence. To a large extent, the northern state governors are not sincere, especially the governors of those volatile areas.

“The Federal Government should have asked them to step aside since it has become clear that they are not able to secure lives and property in their states, in spite of the several hundred millions of naira they receive as security votes. It shows incompetence on their own part, because the Federal Government had given them all the support they needed and there has been no cooperation coming from their  side. They should step aside and administrators should manage the state for six months and let us see the difference. If it fails, that means there is nothing we can do; sovereign national conference would be the only option left.”

Shettima dismissed the argument that political consideration would have led to the decision to leave the political structures of the states intact, despite the emergency rule.

He said, “This whole issue is beyond politics. Lives are involved here. It does not matter which party is  in charge of the states, what matters is that innocent people are dying every day, especially in Borno and Yobe states and something must be done to stop this trend.”

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The group also asked the Federal Government to instruct the army to ensure that innocent citizens were neither killed nor molested during the emergency rule.

“We expect that there should be rules of engagement that will ensure that innocent people do not suffer unnecessarily. The soldiers and policemen that are currently in those states should be trained to fish out the perpetrators of the violence. This shouldn’t be an opportunity for miscreants within the Nigerian Armed Forces to victimise people,” he said.

Link: http://www.punchng.com/news/emergency-rule-arewa-youths-want-governors-removed/

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This Arewa people speak from both side of the mouth. Today they will condemn SOE, the next day they are supporting GEJ. Let's watch and see, it appears the enemies camp is divided.
Now they all want to join Nigerians in supporting GEJ. We shall study them closely though, they might be coming with an agenda

@idokojimmy
I think you are confused rather.We have two distinct groups that you mistake for one saying the same thing twice.You have the highly regional Gujungu (Arewa youth forum) and Yerima group that is more liberal and nationalistic.

haka_nai: @idokojimmy
I think you are confused rather.We have two distinct groups that you mistake for one saying the same thing twice.You have the highly regional Gujungu (Arewa youth forum) and Yerima group that is more liberal and nationalistic.

Well am hearing this for the first time. So the group has been polarized, yet Shettima has been releasing statement onbehalf of the forum for a long time now. Hmmmm, just admit that u guys have relealized that Nigerians were right when they condemned violence and join the bandwagon like Shettima and co have. Train go leave u o

Every sense person is beginning to see the hand writing on the wall now, very soon the Jihadist kidnapper and arm robbers who called themselves Boko Haram where they belong,cause their sponsors will soon start denying them to carry their cross along. I actually support the move cause the SOE is long over due not minding the insincerity of the Northern Elders in this whole issue,soon the north will realize itself and take a stand for the truth and liberal itself from few people who have refuse to accept their mistake, rather pushing it to another innocent person for political and monetary aim.

how much GOVT PAID.

JAJIKAMI: ideylaff: Political Hullabalooo, they are quenching some monster they created behind the scenes to give credence to Mr President... Like America going to war a year b4 elections..weve seen it all b4

Why has Boko not had any real proper Power and influential Goverment target since.... LOL.

na so so poor people den dey kill since....

Whoz fooling who.....?

Just 2 days and dey are saying they are seeing results on Boko... very funny a movement they created /
has bn running for years just quelled within 1 week like that. Doyin Okupe must be a joker sha....

If they could do this why allow them to grow and do us so much damage over the last few years..

Boko is an internal creation by them, GBAMK, they grew out of hand just like Massob and d past militants dey had to buy their arms off them back in d days for money/amnesty.

Im not fooled even if others are fooled....

I know Nigeria well enough....

Field marshal Doyin Okupe is now reporting war front success as if the people on ground have filed a security report withing 2 days or is it a week of Stste of Emergency

what is the National Security Adviser doing... drinking beer or what?

What a bunch of liars, deceitful and jokers they all are
2 years ago they told us same lies like this... this is now 2013 and they suddenly have woken up from their slumber after needless blood/lives have bn shed.....GOD will judge them all

....https://www.nairaland.com/762912/nigeria-chad-niger-set-launch....


NIGERIAN MILITARY NO MORE THE NATION DEFENDERS..

1. THE NIGERIAN MILITARY TURNED INTO POLITICAL CHARLATANS OF GEJ ADMINISTRATION
2. BY USING THEM AS A TOOL TO ACHIEVE HIS DEVILISH AGENDAS UNABATED.
3. HARASSING, KILLING INNOCENT NIGERIAN IN A SIMPLE BID TO CURVE INSURGENCY (BH) CREATED BY SAME MAN TO ACHIEVE THIS AGENDA.
4. UNPROFESSIONAL APPROACH BY THE MILITARY TO TACKLE SMALL BUT ELUSIVE TARGETS LIKE BH GUERRILLA FIGHTERS

LONG LIVE NIGERIA

Please moderator ban thise guy and post him to north where the heat is tense. He is breaking rule 18.

JAJIKAMI: JAJIKAMI: ideylaff: Political Hullabalooo, they are quenching some monster they created behind the scenes to give credence to Mr President... Like America going to war a year b4 elections..weve seen it all b4

Why has Boko not had any real proper Power and influential Goverment target since.... LOL.

na so so poor people den dey kill since....

Whoz fooling who.....?

Just 2 days and dey are saying they are seeing results on Boko... very funny a movement they created /
has bn running for years just quelled within 1 week like that. Doyin Okupe must be a joker sha....

If they could do this why allow them to grow and do us so much damage over the last few years..

Boko is an internal creation by them, GBAMK, they grew out of hand just like Massob and d past militants dey had to buy their arms off them back in d days for money/amnesty.

Im not fooled even if others are fooled....

I know Nigeria well enough....

Field marshal Doyin Okupe is now reporting war front success as if the people on ground have filed a security report withing 2 days or is it a week of Stste of Emergency

what is the National Security Adviser doing... drinking beer or what?

What a bunch of liars, deceitful and jokers they all are
2 years ago they told us same lies like this... this is now 2013 and they suddenly have woken up from their slumber after needless blood/lives have bn shed.....GOD will judge them all

....https://www.nairaland.com/762912/nigeria-chad-niger-set-launch....


NIGERIAN MILITARY NO MORE THE NATION DEFENDERS..

1. THE NIGERIAN MILITARY TURNED INTO POLITICAL CHARLATANS OF GEJ ADMINISTRATION
2. BY USING THEM AS A TOOL TO ACHIEVE HIS DEVILISH AGENDAS UNABATED.
3. HARASSING, KILLING INNOCENT NIGERIAN IN A SIMPLE BID TO CURVE INSURGENCY (BH) CREATED BY SAME MAN TO ACHIEVE THIS AGENDA.
4. UNPROFESSIONAL APPROACH BY THE MILITARY TO TACKLE SMALL BUT ELUSIVE TARGETS LIKE BH GUERRILLA FIGHTERS

LONG LIVE NIGERIA

musiwa26: how much GOVT PAID.

meaning what? Is ur money missing? Mr president will be d last man to support evil. These hungry ACF youths are looking for a way to get favour but GEJ is not a fool to ever disrupt democratic process