The Northern Youth Leaders Forum has warned President Muhammdu Buhari from re-contesting for the 2019 elections because they would not support him because of the Calibre of people he surrounded himself within his first tenure in office.
The National chairman of NYLF, Comrade Elliot Afiyo, made this known during an interactive session with pressmen in Yola.
Elliot Afiyo said, “The president should not make the mistake of thinking to contest in 2019 due to the crop of people he has surrounded him with.
“He has played a vital role in stabilizing the country which was the major reason the NYLF supported him in 2015 and also because of his integrity but our recent discovery shows he has been walking alone and he alone cannot do it.
“We did not vote for APC but for Buhari because the country needed to be stabilized and that has been done, so it is time for President Buhari to go for a rest adding that he should not allow himself to fall into the hands of the cabals trying to make him go into contest in 2019 because most Nigerians would not vote for him due to the activities of his lieutenants.”
The leader of Northern Youths Leaders Forum( NYLF) said apart from matters surrounding 2019 presidency, they are aware of a cabal under the current Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari plotting to ensure that the Inspector General of Police ( IGP) Ibrahim Idris is removed from office for
their personal interest.
Comrade Elliot appeals to the president not to allow himself to be misled by the scheming of this Cabal as their actions are part of a calculated step to undermine and discredit his government.
Elliot said, “We are aware of the plans by some people in Buhari’s government strategising to give the president every reason to remove the Inspector General of Police from office and as a forum, we cannot let that happen”
“Therefore we are warning the cabal to stop their plans or we will be forced to come publicly to expose them and some of their clandestine activities in the past”
“We worked tirelessly for this government to come on board and we cannot fold our hands to allow some people in the name of the cabal to discredit this government because certain people in government refused to do their whims and caprices,” he said.
Afiyo said this forum has more than five million members across every part of the country and we will not allow them to run this country down adding that ” we will not allow them to do what they want simply because some people say no to them”
The NYLF leader also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speedily confirm the appointment of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu noting that it was still the same cabal that was working against Magu’s confirmation.
Afiyo explained that the NYLF has critically monitored the activities of the cabal in respect to Magu’s case and cabal is committed to making sure that he is not confirmed as the substantive chairman of the EFCC because they are scared that he might expose some of their nefarious activities.
The group also called on the president to do a thorough investigation on Abubakar Maina’s case saying it believes that a fair hearing should be given to him and if found guilty, then he should be sacked.
He noted that Maina’s statement might help the federal government unrave some hidden secrets concerning some people who might have aided some alleged actions and the people behind the mask in his government’.