— 26th November 2017

•AYCF PRESIDENT URGES PMB TO NOMINATE SUCCESSOR

By Kenny Ashaka

AS the All Progressives Congress, (APC) governors call on President Muhammadu Buhari to run for the 2019 presidential election, the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, (AYCF) says any arrangement for Buhari to run in the next poll would be resisted. They, therefore, urged the president to abandon his right to contest the 2019 presidential election. “Honestly, the situation is nothing to write home about and we cannot continue hoping that anything will happen from now till the next one year. We cannot continue to imagine that. That would assume we are living in imagination and the truth of the matter is that from now until January what the government has been able to do is what they can do for this tenure and I do not think that Nigerians are prepared to be fooled for the second time,” Yerima Shettima, president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF said.

The last time we had an interview in late July, you declared that politicians above 60 years would not be allowed to partake in the governance of Nigeria. Do you still maintain that stand or you believe time and circumstances have changed all that?

We cannot continue over and over. We have come of age. We cannot continue to fold our hands and be complaining. We must be in the mainstream. Most of them had the opportunity but they could not do it well and I do not see them doing it better now at their age.

Are you then by implication saying that President Muhammadu Buhari has not done well?

The truth is that our expectations of this government have not been met.

What are the expectations?

Everything they promised during the campaign and in their manifesto. The reason why everybody sought for change was that we thought this government will fight corruption tooth and nail without considering whosoever is involved. But we have now realized that the fight against corruption has become selective. Then two, the issue of insurgency, leave it or take it, to us, as laymen this battle is not over. We cannot or the government cannot justify the fact that we told Nigerians that the fight against insurgency is over.
Almost every day we have had casualties. These are the two core issues. The third one on the campaign was the issue of power.
This is nothing to write home about even though the Minister of Power told us that a responsible government should be able to fix power within six months. That has not been achieved more than two and a half years after. Now it is nothing to write home about; the same thing with roads. Even the issue of petrol pump price is another one. We were told during the campaign that immediately they resume office, fuel price would go down to N40 per liter from N97 per litre. Now, a government that promised this rather than keep to their promise raised the price astronomically. Now, it is between 70 and 80 percent increase. That is giving us a lot of concern. Certainly, whether you like it or not the government must take responsibility and I have no doubt in my mind that between them and God who created them they know they have failed Nigerians. And when people take responsibility, then we will begin to forgive ourselves. If they beg for forgiveness we can decide to overlook it and also forge ahead. But certainly, never again will anybody make this mistake. Never.

From what you have said, would you agree this government will leave Nigerians worse than it met them?

Honestly, the situation is nothing to write home about and we cannot continue hoping that anything will happen from now till the next one year. We cannot continue to imagine that. That would assume we are living in imagination and the truth of the matter is that from now until January what the government has been able to do is what they can do for this tenure and I do not think that Nigerians are prepared to be fooled for the second time. We will insist that those above 60 do not come on board again and that our generation should stand firm to take our destiny in our hands. We will jettison the issue of the difference in ethnicity, religion and other mundane, divisive sentiments to insist on good governance. We are enlightened and we know exactly what we want. We constitute about 70 to 80 percent of the population and if democracy is about numbers, we will achieve our aim.

You are aware that all the parties have zoned the presidency in 2019 to the North. Now, if you do not want people above 60 years and that includes the incumbent and those who have signified their interests directly or indirectly, who do you have in mind because some people are saying other than Buhari, the North has no other candidate that can perform better than him?

That is not true. Even before Buhari, the North has other people who we can vouch for their integrity who are not up to 60 years. I have no doubt in my mind there are. In fact, I am one.

Are you also going to contest?

I may, I may not. But I am saying we have a lot of them. We have a lot of people of my generation who can do better and who also have integrity. Nobody can question the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari, but I am also saying that governance cannot be single-handedly run in a country like Nigeria. We cannot also assume that he alone can do the job. He does not have a team to go with, simply because they took advantage of his ill-health or his age.

The president has now come out to say he would expand the cabinet and bring in more people into governance. Would that not assuage your fears of a one-man government?

It would not because we have waited before now to see him take a firm decision and begin to bring in a lot of people before now, but what he brought are people who have been failing and will continue to fail. We have also discovered that probably those close to him are not telling him the truth or they have blindfolded him so that he is not aware of what is going on within the government. A lot of things are not right. Almost 10 percent of his ministers…we can only vouch for two percent; the remaining eight percent are e neither here nor there. They are just pulling the hook, lying and lying.

What is the strategy that you have put in place to achieve your aim of getting the right person who is less than 60 years to become Nigeria’s president?

Mr. Kenny, it is very clear. One, there is a lot of consciousness. Two, a lot of work is being done on social media. The youths have realized that business cannot continue as usual. We are at the receiving end of all this mess. We can no longer put our destinies in their hands. It would come to an end in 2019.

Would I then be right to say that you are also sounding a note of caution to the APC not to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to fly their flag in 2019?

Well, I am not a card carrying member of APC. Two, it is left for the APC to decide that. If the time comes…it is not him alone; there are other aspirants who are above 60 years of age. Any party that makes the mistake by bringing a candidate above 60 years of age would be doing so at its own risk. We will insist, advocate, conscientise, educate Nigerians and the youths on the consequences of the suicide they will commit in their generation because it is a suicide.

In conclusion, should APC field the incumbent president, you believe they will fail?

They will fail. Any party that fields anybody above 60 years of age will fail. My opinion is that he should not allow people to drag his integrity into the mud because the system we have in place does not consider people like him with integrity and that is why he has a team of people who are only working to sabotage him and those are things that most Nigerians would not understand are not his responsibility for as long as the government fails everybody will assume that he is the one that fails. So my advice to him is that let him step up and be at the background to give support to a prominent, trusted youth to come up in 2019. That’s my advice to him.
Buhari should bring up a successor, a young man, somebody who can be trusted and can do better. Let him be a father, a role model to all of us. We will look up to him. If not, this political party system can never allow him to thrive. Look at the best brains he said he hunted for six months; look at the embarrassment they are causing the country. For six months Buhari searched for the best brains, look at the brains he brought on board. Buhari should surrender his ambition and allow a younger person to take his place. That is my candid advice to him.

http://sunnewsonline.com/arewa-youths-to-buhari-forget-2019/

"We need to start electing smart and
intelligent people to lead us" - Ben Bruce at Southern Senators forum yesterday!

He is simply saying, Buhari is not intelligent nor smart

like serious. We saw more than this in 2015. some say they will go to exile, some said nigeria will burn, some said he will die after one year. Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion. Only cownu slaves will dance over this. over to wailers

These are the people on the streets and knows what's up

Sycophants like El Rufai and league of Nairaland zombies should continue to deceive the dullard

Sarrki
HungerBAD
Gberra
Mynd44
Nextprince
Dropshot
NgeneUkwune
Omenkalives
Omenka
Passingshot

Anybody still supporting Buhari at this point, not to talk of canvassing for his second term, is a compound complicated illiterate!

The dîcks of Arewa Youths are as erect as those of professional pornstârs on steroids at the moment. They must be looking like lollipops to Ipob Osus. They would soon arrive to suck them clean.

Two spoted above, more to come below.

Corrinthians:
The dîcks of Arewa Youths are as erect as those of professional pornstârs on steroids at the moment. They must be looking like lollipops to Ipob Osus. They would soon arrive to suck them clean.

Can't u guys be responsible for once? Anybody that speak against Buhari is now termed an Ipob... Buhari is going down faster... Wake up!

Booby88:

Can't u guys be responsible for once? Anybody that speak against Buhari is now termed an Ipob... Buhari is going down faster... Wake up!

This is Nairaland. Get used to it or get out.

This is simply one of the Atiku effects... Expect more to come.

Atiku/Obi 2019 is the sure bet!

I will personally produce 100k pieces of digital posters to support this team!

Buhari is a fool

Only BMC and BSO still support this administration full of hypocrites

We need fresh air in 2019,buhari must return to daura in 2019


To the Northern youths, don't try to play a fast one on we southerners. ...power must return to the south in 2023

We no want stories o

Lalasticlala pls this deserve front page

Booby88:

Can't u guys be responsible for once? Anybody that speak against Buhari is now termed an Ipob... Buhari is going down faster... Wake up!

Get used to nairaland, dia ar alot of paid miscreants here. We call them bmc crew

Buhari should start trekking to daura.

Beress:
— 26th November 2017

•AYCF PRESIDENT URGES PMB TO NOMINATE SUCCESSOR

By Kenny Ashaka

AS the All Progressives Congress, (APC) governors call on President Muhammadu Buhari to run for the 2019 presidential election, the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, (AYCF) says any arrangement for Buhari to run in the next poll would be resisted. They, therefore, urged the president to abandon his right to contest the 2019 presidential election. “Honestly, the situation is nothing to write home about and we cannot continue hoping that anything will happen from now till the next one year. We cannot continue to imagine that. That would assume we are living in imagination and the truth of the matter is that from now until January what the government has been able to do is what they can do for this tenure and I do not think that Nigerians are prepared to be fooled for the second time,” Yerima Shettima, president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF said.

The last time we had an interview in late July, you declared that politicians above 60 years would not be allowed to partake in the governance of Nigeria. Do you still maintain that stand or you believe time and circumstances have changed all that?

We cannot continue over and over. We have come of age. We cannot continue to fold our hands and be complaining. We must be in the mainstream. Most of them had the opportunity but they could not do it well and I do not see them doing it better now at their age.

Are you then by implication saying that President Muhammadu Buhari has not done well?

The truth is that our expectations of this government have not been met.

What are the expectations?

Everything they promised during the campaign and in their manifesto. The reason why everybody sought for change was that we thought this government will fight corruption tooth and nail without considering whosoever is involved. But we have now realized that the fight against corruption has become selective. Then two, the issue of insurgency, leave it or take it, to us, as laymen this battle is not over. We cannot or the government cannot justify the fact that we told Nigerians that the fight against insurgency is over.
Almost every day we have had casualties. These are the two core issues. The third one on the campaign was the issue of power.
This is nothing to write home about even though the Minister of Power told us that a responsible government should be able to fix power within six months. That has not been achieved more than two and a half years after. Now it is nothing to write home about; the same thing with roads. Even the issue of petrol pump price is another one. We were told during the campaign that immediately they resume office, fuel price would go down to N40 per liter from N97 per litre. Now, a government that promised this rather than keep to their promise raised the price astronomically. Now, it is between 70 and 80 percent increase. That is giving us a lot of concern. Certainly, whether you like it or not the government must take responsibility and I have no doubt in my mind that between them and God who created them they know they have failed Nigerians. And when people take responsibility, then we will begin to forgive ourselves. If they beg for forgiveness we can decide to overlook it and also forge ahead. But certainly, never again will anybody make this mistake. Never.

From what you have said, would you agree this government will leave Nigerians worse than it met them?

Honestly, the situation is nothing to write home about and we cannot continue hoping that anything will happen from now till the next one year. We cannot continue to imagine that. That would assume we are living in imagination and the truth of the matter is that from now until January what the government has been able to do is what they can do for this tenure and I do not think that Nigerians are prepared to be fooled for the second time. We will insist that those above 60 do not come on board again and that our generation should stand firm to take our destiny in our hands. We will jettison the issue of the difference in ethnicity, religion and other mundane, divisive sentiments to insist on good governance. We are enlightened and we know exactly what we want. We constitute about 70 to 80 percent of the population and if democracy is about numbers, we will achieve our aim.

You are aware that all the parties have zoned the presidency in 2019 to the North. Now, if you do not want people above 60 years and that includes the incumbent and those who have signified their interests directly or indirectly, who do you have in mind because some people are saying other than Buhari, the North has no other candidate that can perform better than him?

That is not true. Even before Buhari, the North has other people who we can vouch for their integrity who are not up to 60 years. I have no doubt in my mind there are. In fact, I am one.

Are you also going to contest?

I may, I may not. But I am saying we have a lot of them. We have a lot of people of my generation who can do better and who also have integrity. Nobody can question the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari, but I am also saying that governance cannot be single-handedly run in a country like Nigeria. We cannot also assume that he alone can do the job. He does not have a team to go with, simply because they took advantage of his ill-health or his age.

The president has now come out to say he would expand the cabinet and bring in more people into governance. Would that not assuage your fears of a one-man government?

It would not because we have waited before now to see him take a firm decision and begin to bring in a lot of people before now, but what he brought are people who have been failing and will continue to fail. We have also discovered that probably those close to him are not telling him the truth or they have blindfolded him so that he is not aware of what is going on within the government. A lot of things are not right. Almost 10 percent of his ministers…we can only vouch for two percent; the remaining eight percent are e neither here nor there. They are just pulling the hook, lying and lying.

What is the strategy that you have put in place to achieve your aim of getting the right person who is less than 60 years to become Nigeria’s president?

Mr. Kenny, it is very clear. One, there is a lot of consciousness. Two, a lot of work is being done on social media. The youths have realized that business cannot continue as usual. We are at the receiving end of all this mess. We can no longer put our destinies in their hands. It would come to an end in 2019.

Would I then be right to say that you are also sounding a note of caution to the APC not to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to fly their flag in 2019?

Well, I am not a card carrying member of APC. Two, it is left for the APC to decide that. If the time comes…it is not him alone; there are other aspirants who are above 60 years of age. Any party that makes the mistake by bringing a candidate above 60 years of age would be doing so at its own risk. We will insist, advocate, conscientise, educate Nigerians and the youths on the consequences of the suicide they will commit in their generation because it is a suicide.

In conclusion, should APC field the incumbent president, you believe they will fail?

They will fail. Any party that fields anybody above 60 years of age will fail. My opinion is that he should not allow people to drag his integrity into the mud because the system we have in place does not consider people like him with integrity and that is why he has a team of people who are only working to sabotage him and those are things that most Nigerians would not understand are not his responsibility for as long as the government fails everybody will assume that he is the one that fails. So my advice to him is that let him step up and be at the background to give support to a prominent, trusted youth to come up in 2019. That’s my advice to him.
Buhari should bring up a successor, a young man, somebody who can be trusted and can do better. Let him be a father, a role model to all of us. We will look up to him. If not, this political party system can never allow him to thrive. Look at the best brains he said he hunted for six months; look at the embarrassment they are causing the country. For six months Buhari searched for the best brains, look at the brains he brought on board. Buhari should surrender his ambition and allow a younger person to take his place. That is my candid advice to him.

http://sunnewsonline.com/arewa-youths-to-buhari-forget-2019/

Areas youths reject dullardism

The fact is dis APC fiat are so shameless. everything they had acused the former regime of doing, they have done more than double.

My opinion is that even if the northerners are to rule fo r another four years pls let them look for another candidate who can execute this.heinous task of government.

Secondly I will advice our legislators to enact a law that give age limit to Presidential aspirants say maximum of 60yrs for contestants and a maximum age limit for incumbents say 70yrs. We all knw that as one gets older, his/her IQ starts dropping. More over economic science clearly classifies people above the age of 65 years as non productive in nature. By this its clear why the countrys econimy seems to be regressing over the past years. We are being led by people who fall under the non productive age. Pls how old is Lai mohammed , Oyegun or audu ogbe? And a few to. Mention.

Sarrki right now

Sarrki
HungerBAD
Gberra
Mynd44
Nextprince
Dropshot
NgeneUkwune
Omenkalives
Omenka
Passingshot

Listed above group of BMC societal misfits

All o know I only one term remaining for North

2023 power return to the south

Buhari is simply a bad market.Arewa youth were busy issuing threat while the biggest threat to their own very existence is the dullard of Daura.

Beress:
Anybody still supporting Buhari at this point, not to talk of canvassing for his second term, is a compound complicated illiterate!

Keep regurgitating this nonsense in the hope it will make any sense

Oloripelebe:



Only BMC and BSO still support this administration full of hypocrites

We need fresh air in 2019,buhari must return to daura in 2019


To the Northern youths, don't try to play a fast one on we southerners. ...power must return to the south in 2023

We no want stories o

Oga, I don't understand how you people think in this part of the world. Leadership is about ability to deliver not the part of the country the leader comes from.

Atikulate.... Atikulate and ChangeTheChange...

And sarrki will be here counting how
Buhari will win, Northeast, northwest, Northcentre, Northpole, Northvale.