The Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) today described the emergence of Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a shame and bad precedent. In a statement signed by AYF’s leader, Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, the forum also criticized PDP governors from the northern states for failing to oppose President Goodluck Jonathan’s scheme to impose Mr. Tukur as the party’s chairman.
The Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) today described the emergence of Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a shame and bad precedent. In a statement signed by AYF’s leader, Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, the forum also criticized PDP governors from the northern states for failing to oppose President Goodluck Jonathan’s scheme to impose Mr. Tukur as the party’s chairman.
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The full text of the statement is reproduced below:
Bamanga Tukur’s Emergence As PDP Chairman: Confirmed Conspiracy Against The North:
“The way and manner politics is going in the Peoples Democratic Party and in particular as it affects Northern Nigeria calls for urgent concern and reflection, though it is their party affairs but it affects us indirectly as a region bedeviled with several challenges.
It is worrisome in the sense that it is no longer news that the North more than any region is facing critical challenges of survival, socially, economically, politically and all other sectors of human endeavors which can best be described as a journey towards possible disintegration or even extinction. And so the kind of commitment required to overcome our challenges ought to be anchored on visionary leadership, purposeful mentoring aimed at bridging the gaps between the young and the aged.
“Sir Ahmadu Bello our revered leader died at 56 with series of legacies that still abound nearly 50 years after his death. He also understood the efficacy of grooming and mentoring like John N.Paden said in his famous book on our late Premier Ahmadu Bello: Sardauna Of Sokoto, Values and Leadership in Nigeria. In Sir Ahmadu Bello, we saw Sunday Awoniyi, Adamu Ciroma, Ali Akilu, Michael Audu Buba, Ishaya Audu, Adamu Baikie and host of others.
But today, who will come out as a breed from power drunk men like Bamanga Tukur and his allies from the North? Wonders, they say shall never end, so the emergence of a GRAND-FATHER Alhaji Bamanga Tukur confirmed this altruism at this critical time Northern Nigeria is in, and the country at large that daily the future of the North is dwindling.
“It is on this premise that we make the following observations:-
It is a shame to the PDP Northern Governors for mortgaging the future of the North by allowing themselves to be dragged in to an undemocratic means that imposed a septuagenarian leader of their party. It is clearly antics and conspiracy against the region by President Goodluck Jonathan, and this is set back that will produce a long-term consequence most grievous to our region.
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“We are calling on all other youths in the North to shelve sentiment aside and condemn in strong terms this sham achievement, and distance themselves from anything related to these robots created by President Goodluck Jonathan under the tutelage of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. It is a shame and denigration of Northern Youths in general.
“We challenge our elite again, to prove their worth and value by accelerating corrective measures for ameliorating the mess their actions and inactions caused the North. The Northern economy and political savvy is fast fading, and so this is time for action and not feeding fat on the miseries on the region; since it has become a market for sales and profits.”
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