Arewa youths tackle APC, say its govt does not wish Nigerians well

The National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of not wishing Nigerians well.

According to Yerima, who spoke at a unity rally in Lagos on Tuesday, recent happenings in the country has proven this.

The rally organised by the Nigerian Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders Forum.

According to him, the rally was organised because of the injustice meted out to Nigerians during the recently held elections.

He said: “This rally is as a result of fallback on the elections. We felt Nigerians deserve more than what they are experiencing in recent times.

“From the presidential election to the governorship election, there was a clear demonstration of rape on our democracy.

“We feel this is not what we envisaged, something went wrong. For us, we have no other home than this country and if democracy is threatened, all meaningful Nigerians must come round to do the right thing.

“This is a clarion call that all hands must be on deck to save democracy, since it has been threatened.

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“The election had been massively rigged and the sensibility of Nigerians has been abused and Nigerians demonstrated that in the last election by not coming out to perform their civic duty.”

Also speaking at the rally, the National President of the Yoruba Youth Worldwide, Oladotun Hassan, said there was the need to sensitise Nigerians not to allow ethnicity, political affiliation or religious sentiment divide the country.

“We are passing a message to our leaders that irrespective of their political parties, let nobody play the card of ethnicity because it is very dangerous,” he said.

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