The leadership of the Arewa Youth
Forum on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari does not deserve any
endorsement for the 2019 presidency.
Reacting to a purported endorsement
by some serving All Progressives Congress’s lawmakers from the Northwest in
Kaduna, the AYF’s National President, Alhaji Gambo Gujungu, said Buhari was not
fit to return as president in 2019.
The AYF argued that with the
killing spree all over the country, especially in the North, Buhari should
serve his mandatory four years term and quit the stage for another Northerner.
Gujungu noted that one sour point
about President Buhari’s 2019 ambition was his claim that the killings across
the country were being carried out by “desperate politicians”, yet he had not
arrested even a single suspect.
The AYF president, therefore, said
Nigerians should blame the president for the attacks on innocent citizens.
The AYF boss who spoke to our
correspondent on phone on Monday, said the President’s claim that the killings
under whatever guise was caused by desperate politicians, “shows that the
president knows them(killers).”
He said:”Nigerians should hold
the President Buhari responsible for the killings because he made it clear in
one of his speeches that it was
‘desperate politicians’ that are responsible for the herdsmen killings.
“Being the Commander-in-Chief of
the Nigerian Armed Forces, the bulks stops on his table. It is important,
therefore, for him to fish out the desperate politicians as a matter of
urgency.
“Therefore, to allow the
president to come in 2019 will spell doom, not only for the North but the
entire country.
“This is not 2015 when we said
North versus the South. This is not APC or PDP affairs.
“We have enough Presidential
aspirants in the North that are capable and not Buhari again.
“Buhari should just honourably
leave the stage in 2019 so that the North can regain its lost glory.”
On Sunday, the lawmakers from the
Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto and Zamfara States at
the inauguration of local coordinators
for the ‘Northwest Young Parliamentarians in support of Buhari/Osinbajo 2019,’
had said that the President had done so well in the areas of security, infrastructure development and deserved to
return and complete the good job he started.
The serving lawmakers and dignitaries who attended that event
are, the Senate Committee Chairman on
police Affairs, Abu Ibrahim (Katsina South constituency) Senator Jibril Barau
(Kano North Constituency), Senator Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central Constituency)
and the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa,
Samaila Sulaiman, a House of Representatives member from Kaduna, Garba Datti
Mohammed from Kaduna’s Sabon Gari
Federal Constituency.
Other lawmakers also present
include Saidu Yusuf Miga of Jahum/Miga Federal Constituency in Jigawa, Hussaini
Sulieman Kangiwa (Arewa/Dandi/Federal constituency, Sokoto), Ahmed Baba
Kaita(Kankia/Ingawa/Kusada Federal Constituency, Katsina), Speaker of the
Kaduna State House of Assembly, Aminu Shagali and Speaker of the Katsina State
House of Assembly, Aliyu Sabiu Muduru.
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam
Nasir El-Rufai, was represented by his
Deputy, Barnabas Bala Yusuf. President Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on
National Assembly Matters, Sumaila Kawu, Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdurrahman
Danbazzau(retd) who was represented by his son, Shamsudeen Bello and a former
governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi were also present.
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