Alhaji Yerima Shettima is the National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF). In this interview with some journalists, he speaks on the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Northern presidency and the 2019 presidential election, among other issues. TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI brings the excerpts:

Some Nigerians believe that there is no different between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) and as such, there should be a new order in the 2019 general elections. Do you share this belief?
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I am of the view that we need a new order come 2019. New people and the youth should be encouraged to come on board. Some of us believe that the expired politicians and failed generation should be shown the way out, so that new people can come on board. Never again, are we going to fold our hands and allow the same old people recycling themselves in public offices to take over power again.
They pretend to be fighting one another, but when it comes to the issue of sharing of the ‘national cake,’ they meet at the top and share resources of the common people, who are the majority.
The few live comfortably and allow the masses to suffer and be in disarray. So, to an extent, I am thinking that rather than looking at the issue of ethnicity or religion as our agenda and problem, we should put the two behind and begin to build capacity and synergy to bring about the Nigeria of our dream.

How do you think the new order will emerge considering that some crop of politicians have continuously recycled themselves in office since independence?

We have come of age and some of us are experienced as a result of several struggles against the military rule. I have being in the trenches and I have a long history of struggle from the military days to the pro-democracy struggle, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) struggle, the Olusegun Obasanjo era, Pro-National Conference (PRONACO) struggle and where we are today.
There are many people like me all over the country. So, the issue of somebody remaining in power and some old politicians recycling themselves in office and holding the country to ransom is not going to be in 2019.
I can assure you that 2019 is going to be a different game and they are going to lose out in the elections. To realise this, we have formed a new movement; moving quietly, mobilising and organising ourselves not minding where we come from or our religious differences.
We are mobilising our own resources and we might not need anybody to fund us in 2019. Some of us have ambitions to contest and we will fund those who want to contest.
As leaders of organisations, who are in touch with the people, we will go down and meet the people and don’t forget that the chunk votes of this country come from the common people, women and downtrodden masses. They are the ones who vote, the elites don’t.
You cannot have your cake yesterday and still expect that you will have it today. Naturally, if they refuse to go, nature will never allow them to excel and this is the challenge some of them are having now. So, we will never allow vacuum to be there anymore and that is why we are preparing for 2019. There will be a new order and we are going to see a presidential candidate who is in his late 40s or early 50s. Never again will anybody above 60 get our blessing for presidency.
You are talking of a new order but some people believe President Muhammadu Buhari should re-contest in 2019?
I don’t think so. Whoever imagines that President Buhari with his health condition and age will contest in 2019 and still expect him to move this country forward, must be living on figment of imagination.

Do you see the North, especially the youth supporting President Buhari if he re-contests in 2019?
He has no problem but certainly we cannot afford to continue to wait without seeing proper action. Somebody must be in charge. As I speak with you today, who is in charge? By expression, yes, we have a president but practically and in terms of action, we can’t find anything happening. So, we will go for a new order.

But some people have started canvassing that he should re-contest in 2019?
I have not heard from him, but people around him are saying indirectly that he should re-contest because they are naturally benefiting from the system. The level of corruption is very high in the society now. The irony is that only few people are looting from the treasury and hiding the money, while the common people are suffering.
But some schools of thought believe that it would be difficult to stop Buhari, especially in the North, where he has massive support?
The North alone cannot produce the president. Nigerians think and believed before the 2015 election that with Buhari everything would be normal. All of us believe in him because he is a man with integrity and who has no tolerance for corruption but governing Nigeria goes beyond integrity.
He should have had a better team to work with, but look at the character of the people he appointed as ministers? Some of them do not share the same ideology with him.
In fact about 90 per cent of them do not believe in him. So, for somebody to just sit down and imagine that it has to be over and o v e r again, then that person must be living in another world entirely.
http://independent.ng/90-percent-buharis-ministers-dont-believe-shettima/

We know all the traitors

We flush them out very soon

There will be a political tsunami very soon

Enemies of State will have something to talk about tonight

Lolzzz.... No need to read d epistle.. So long as Sarrki and his fellow zombies believe in him, d world is fine...

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Lolzzz.... No need to read d epistle.. So long as Sarrki and his fellow zombies believe in him, d world is fine...

God knows that I love Believe & trust Muhammadu Buhari.

It's Natural.

God bless Muhammadu Buhari

God bless Federal Republic Of Nigeria

So the dullard took 6 months only to end up with those who don't even believe in him. This man is the biggest mistake in history

Not only his ministers, many of us his followers stopped believing in him long ago
The guy messed up big time

How can they believe in an unrepentant dictator.

I believe him

I don't think he believes in himself either, at least not in terms of achieving anything tangible for this country.

How would they believe him when they know wella dat Oga na Liar.
Pure Deceiver who lied his way to Aso Villa.

Everything about Buhari na fake.
The only truth however is that Jihadist Buhari is Othman Danfodiyo reincarnation.....in a different styles...

Why blame the Minister when PMB does not inspire confidence.

sarrki:


God knows that I love Believe & trust Muhammadu Buhari.

It's Natural.

God bless Muhammadu Buhari

God bless Federal Republic Of Nigeria

Go have ur brain washed, with a soda!