Coordinator of Believe Buhari Movement, Mr. Olaolu Ogundeji, has called on Nigerian youths to support the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) because he has better plans for them.
Ogundeji, in a statement, on Sunday, described support for President Goodluck Jonathan as a backward step for the country because “his last interview has clearly shown that he has no concrete plans to address youth unemployment.”
He said having examined the employment policies of the two candidates, it was clear that youth unemployment and poverty would be drastically reduced if the APC candidate is given the chance.
He said, “Most of the youths campaigning for the President’s re-election seem to have forgotten his New Year gift that gave rise to the Occupy Nigeria demonstration in January 2012. Some Nigerians lost their lives in the process of staging a protest.
“The Jonathan administration also encouraged the shady immigration recruitment exercise in March 2014 where about 18 youths died, and several others were injured.
“The Minister of interior, Abba Moro, went on to receive an award for excellence after conducting the shabby interview. His being retained as a minister speaks volume of Goodluck Jonathan’s tolerance for failure and incompetency.”
Explaining that Buhari had earned the respect of Nigerians based on his values, Ogundeji expressed optimism that the APC candidate would transform the country if elected in March
Igbo youths warn Obasanjo against anti-Jonathan comments
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo , has warned ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over his reported remarks on President Goodluck Jonathan.
Media reports had quoted Obasanjo as saying that Jonathan shifted the election dates because he was afraid of defeat and that perhaps the President had been listening to aides telling him that he stands the risk of being jailed for corruption should the opposition All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) wins the poll.
The former President also alleged that Jonathan was engaging in “the do-or-die” politics played by the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo.
But the Ohanaeze Youth Council warned Obasanjo to stop inciting Nigerians against the President, who, according to the group, “has dwarfed the achievements of all former Nigerian leaders.”
Speaking with our correspondent in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, the National President of OYC, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said “Obasanjo should stop fanning the embers of war through his unguarded utterances against a sitting President.”
Isiguzoro accused Obasanjo of plotting, in connivance with some undemocratic elements, to topple Jonathan’s government through inciting comments, warning that any attempt to derail Nigeria’s democracy would be resisted.
“Obasanjo is a disappointment to democracy. He should not plunge Nigeria into another civil war through his hate remarks against Jonathan,” he said.
Isiguzoro said Jonathan had “by all standards proved to be a core democrat, otherwise the likes of Obasanjo should be cooling his feet in the jail by now because of his evil deeds while in office.”
The OYC leader said corruption was institutionalised during Obasanjo’s administration and wondered when the former President overnight turned into the vanguard of democracy.
He said, “Obasanjo should know that he has expired politically and Nigerian youths cannot allow him and other spent forces that belong to the past to ruin our future.
“Nigeria cannot buy his belated and selfish idea of Interim National Government, and all those plotting to put Nigeria backwards will be disappointed because the youths are now wiser.”
Isiguzoro further argued that “if anyone should be afraid of going to jail because of corruption and illegality, it is Obasanjo who superintended over the destruction of Odi town while he was in office.”
He said that President Jonathan deserved the right to seek re-election and should not be deprived of that right by “members of a self-serving cabal who think that Nigeria is their private estate.” Punch
