Arewa Youth Calls Buhari ‘A Failure’, Tells Nigerians To Reject APC, PDP In 2023

National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF) Shetima Yerima has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a failure for his inability to secure and steer well the affairs of the country.

In an interview with newsmen in Kaduna, Yerima called on Nigerians to reject any candidate sponsored for the presidency on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) or Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023.

He said the people should opt for a fresh political group that will provide a platform for Nigerians to produce a new, intelligent and honest leader.

He said the citizens, particularly Northerners, have gained almost nothing from the Buhari-led administration and don’t have any basis to vote for either PDP or APC in 2023.

The AYCF President said his group was working on a broad-based political platform, which will transform into a new political party that they will sponsor a presidential candidate to give Nigerians fresh lease of life different from what all existing political parties can offer.

“Right from when Buhari was President-elect that it took him six months to select those that will serve in his government as his ministers, I knew that something was wrong because somebody who has been aspiring to be president since 2003 should have a template that will assist him to choose those that will work with him, but Buhari spent six months looking for who to be ministers in his government and he ended up with worst set of ministers,” he said.

Yerima further condemned the purported candidacy of APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai., stating that they were not credible enough to get the votes of Nigerians in 2023.

“In my life, I was severally penciled to be killed by government agents and military juntas, I was severally arrested and detained because of my belief that there should be democratic government in Nigeria, or that Nigerians should be given dividends of democracy, as such, I will not allow or be part of an arrangement that will allow Tinubu or a civilian dictator like el-Rufai to be president in 2023, even Atiku that wanted to be president in 2019 should go home and rest,” he said.

“The Southerners thought IBB annulled June 12 for Northerners to continue to be in power. Far from that, they annulled Abiola’s election because of their selfish desire to remain in power and it has nothing to do with the ordinary Northerner who massively voted for Abiola and rejected Bashir Tofa even in Kano.

“I, Shetima Yerima, as of today does not have political role model. President Muhammadu Buhari was the man that naturally should be Nigeria’s Mandela because of the massive goodwill people gave him in 2015 but unfortunately, Buhari has failed, and in 2023 we may campaign on the basis of restructuring Nigeria so that power will go back to regions, slightly different from parliamentary also differ.”