National
Youths Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to mobilize
Nigerian youths and indeed all APC’s supporters to occupy the Aso Presidential
Villa and major cities in Nigeria should the general elections be postponed for
the second time.
The youth
warned that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the
presidency must respect the new dates for the general elections.
It added
that though the leadership of the party accepted the previous changes to show
recourse to rule of law, it however would do everything necessary within the
ambit of the law to ensure that the authorities do not contemplate any further
postponement of the election.
At a meeting
organized in Abuja yesterday by the National Youth Leader of the party, Alhaji
Ibrahim Jalo Dasuki, State and zonal youth leaders of the youth wing gathered
to take the decision.
Speaking at
the meeting, Dasuki, expressed confident that his party will be victorious in
the coming elections.
He said:
“Even though we know that what they have done was based on political reasons
because they truely know that if election would be held that time they will
definitely lose, and we want to tell them that no matter the number of times
they shift the election we will definitely win these elections.
“We want to
tell them that we have accepted it has our leaders have accepted but election
will be held on the 28 of March and that 28 remain sacrosanct because we will
not tolerate any other shift in election dates. As law abiding citizens we have
accepted it but if it come to a point that the government and INEC does not
want to conduct election we will definitely have to take the necessary steps
legally possible.
“Why this
meeting is special is because elections are around the corner in less than four
weeks, therefore we have to sit down, strategise and come up with a workable
program that all of us will key in and also to set a time line on how we go
about campaigning to ensure that we get victory.”
Jalo who
also reacted to the speculations that the INEC chairman, Prof. Jega may be show
the way out of office before the rescheduled elections however said that the
party was not interested in who stays on as the chairman of the electoral management
body.
What
mattered most, according to him, was who would conduct a free, free and
credible elections.
He however
said that Jega has shown a lot of finesses and readiness to do a good job
“therefore, he should be allow to continue his good job because if they remove
him that will take us back and everything has to start afresh from the
beginning, even though they have no reason whatsoever to do that.”
He described
the party presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buahri as a credible
candidate and choice of Nigerians in the elections given his incorruptible
stance.
Also
speaking, the APC Northwest zonal youth leader, Barr. Sheu Marshal, said: “Our
position is that the March 28 and April election dates are sacrosanct otherwise
we will occupy Aso Rock and other major cities in Nigeria.”
The meeting
brought together all the youths leaders from the six geo political zones and
the 36 states of the federation.
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