Fake leaders: Youth
Fake leaders: Youth Council Denies Endorsing Buhari for
2019 Elections
It has been brought to our attention that some people led by one
Sukubo Saraigbe Sokubo have gathered somewhere to endorse the
candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari in the name of the National
Youth Council of Nigeria. We hereby disassociate ourselves with
them and their endorsement. We also wish to state categorically
clear that we have nothing against the President and we will
continue to work for the progress of this administration.
It is pertinent to note, that the National Youth Council of
Nigeria as an umbrella body of the Nigerian Youth is a non partisan
organisation and thereby cannot indulge into partisan politics. It
is unconstitutional and unethical. It will be unfair to do so on
behalf of the entire Nigerian youth without consulting the young
people of Nigeria who belong to different political parties.
Since our emergence on 24th July 2018 in an election supervised
by the Ministry for Youth & Sports development, we have been
working hard to reposition the council and save it from further
degradation.
As a result our leadership has been faced with opposition by
some government cronies, businessmen and top politicians who have
been working tirelessly to spoil our efforts and that of the
Minister for Youth & Sports development by jeopardizing our
leadership for their personal gains.
That is what led the Sokubo Saraigbe Sokubo group to purport a
kangaroo court order claiming that our exco have been dissolved so
that they can perpetuate their illegality. Whereas, neither my
exco, nor the National Youth Council have been joined in the so
called court order. And the purported order did not also confer
leadership on anybody. Those who entered the case are also not
members of the youth council neither does a court in Nasarawa has
the jurisdiction to hear the matter of our election which was a
National election held in Gombe.
The so called Sokubo Saraigbe Sokubo who refer himself as the
president of the council , is neither here nor there as he
describes himself both as the Chairman of Rivers State and
President of the National Body at the same time. Therefore he is
none. And for the avoidance of doubt, he is not a member of the
NYCN but rather an impostor who uses such tactics to defraud the
general public.
I hereby want to declare that The NYCN is under threat. Hence,
we charge the presidency and other agencies to quickly disassociate
themselves with the activities of Sokubo Saraigbe Sokubo criminal
group and to save the youth council from further embarrassment.
We also want charge the presidency to investigate and checkmate
those within and without the government who are spending their
resources endlessly to create division among the Nigerian
Youth.
The leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria under me
will continue to be non partisan, all inclusive, responsive and
will continue to work to protect the integrity and credibility of
the organization in the overall interest Nigerian youth.
Signed,
Bello Shagari,
President