2023: Group queries Bola Tinubu “lifelong ambition”, insists on youth leadership »

…says Youth4Youth Agenda already in motion.

A group identified as GYB2PYB support group have queried the recent declaration by former governor of Lagos state to contest for presidency in the 2023 general election insisting that such ambition was against President Muhammadu Buhari’s desire to hand over to a youth in 2023.

The group’s Director General, Oladele John Nihi on Tuesday in a press conference asserted that the recent utterances by the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari to have officially informed the President of his ambition/intention to succeed him after 2023 general elections raised several questions.

He said “We understand and revere the fact that everyone as a Nigerian has the right to aspire for elective positions as deemed fit. We only have a few questions for our Baba and Leader, and we believe it to be the same questions on the lips and mind of many Nigerians out there without a voice to speak or platform to be heard”.

“Why now that President Muhammadu Buhari promised to handover to a much younger person come 2023. A promise he made in 2018 during the signing of the NoTooYoungToRun bill into law”? he queried

The DG asked why the former senator would decide to achieve a supposed lifelong ambition at a time Nigerian Youth are collectively clamoring for thorough inclusiveness and active participation in governance across board?

“Why put your interest above that of the Nigerian Youth who obviously constitute the majority of both Nigeria population and electorate; a united generation of like-minded people who will stop at nothing to achieve a set objective”?

“Why has Baba kept this lifelong ambition to himself all these while his age group and generation has done nothing but little to get the country working”?

He noted that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu further revealed in his press conference that he only informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intentions to run for the presidency come 2023, but yet to inform Nigerians.

Mr. John Nihi on behalf of Nigerian Youth appealed to the National Leader to halt his intentions of informing Nigerians about this “lifelong ambition” stressing that they were not ready to cooperate; as their yearnings and cry for power would not be cowed by any sudden lifelong ambitions and mostly not by the older citizens of this country.

He stated that “Telling us about this lifelong ambition would translate to us disrespecting an elder statesman who ordinarily we are supposed to be looking up to for advice and mentorship as we take over power in 2023.

The DG asserted that the Youth4Youth Agenda was already in motion, and they were prepared more than ever before to stand by any of their own, rather than recycling old Politicians they have read about to pass examinations during our school days.

He appealed that they were apologizing to all senior citizens above the age of fifty, who feel Nigeria is not working, and should be the preferred hand to fix it.

“We apologies for the lapses of the past created by these senior citizens who has been in the country’s corridor of power since her independence in 1960 till date, and finally we apologies for the lackadaisical attitude of Nigerian Youth to governance before now, leaving the energy draining job of fixing the country to an age strata who should ordinarily be retired; as strength and vitality has already failed them to carry the burdens of the most populous black nation on Earth on their fragile shoulders. These things are not happening again; as we are more than ready to take over power come 2023”. He asserted

The DG revealed that the candidacy of Governor Yahaya Bello would stand, adding that with its structures across the 36 states of the country, doing tedious grassroots sensitization on why the Youths should be given a chance come 2023, have recorded substantial and bankable results.