The Yoruba Youth Council, YYC,
has frowned at the statement by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing,
Babatunde Fashola, that President Muhammadu Buhari will return power to the
region if they reelect him for a second term in 2019.
Fashola had while speaking at a
special Town Hall Meeting on infrastructure organised by the Ministry of
Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency held in Ibadan, Oyo
State on Thursday called on the people of the South West to support Buhari’s
second term bid in order to regain power in 2013.
The YYC which is the umbrella
body of the Yoruba Youths, described the Minister’s call as absurd, adding that
President Buhari has not done well to warrant another shot at the presidency.
This was contained in a statement
signed by its National President, Eric Oluwole, and made available to newsmen
on Friday.
The youths insisted that
President Buhari had no solution to any of the problems confronting Nigeria as
a nation.
The statement added, “Our
attention has been drawn to a vague promise by a former Governor of Lagos State
and current Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola
during the special town hall meeting organised by the Ministry of Information
and Culture and the National Orientation Agency recently, advising Yorubas especially
the youths to vote for the incumbent president Mr Muhammad Buhari in the 2019
election so as to enable power shift to the south west in 2023.
“We observe with consternation
that Mr Fashola, who is a beneficiary of the social economic crisis which the
ruling elite has plunged the Nigerian youths could start serving as an adviser
at this critical period if our nation’s existence.
“Having been a beneficiary of
Democratic rule since 1999, we will not forget the level of corruption
perpetrated by the Minister when he was Governor of Lagos State as leaked by
his predecessor, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on assumption to office.
“Yoruba youths also remember with
consternation, the statements credited to Mr Fashola that Nigeria’s power
problems could be fixed in six months, three years of his reign has the
minister in charge of power has not solved our perennial power problems.
“We want him and his likes who
are feeding Nigerians with propaganda from the seat of power to know that the
youths have learnt from history and will strive hard not to repeat the mistakes
of the past in our resolve to revamp the economy of Nigeria.
“The same presidency Mr Fashola
is promising Yoruba youth in 2023 is what the current Minister of Labour and
Productivity, Chris Ngige promised the South Easterners. Another attempt to
perpetrate the ethnic division of the country?
“We want to say expressly that
nothing can stop our collective resolve to ensure the restructuring of Nigeria
in order to find solutions to myriads of problems facing our country.
“We again call on Presidential
candidates who are committed to the restructuring agenda to show commitment by
signing an agreement document to ensure restructuring of Nigeria within six
months of their assumption to office.
“Time has come to protect our
future and the youths shall do all we can to decide the fate of the 2019
election without leaving a stone,” the statement said.
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