.As Nigerian Youths regroup to seek political power
A political pressure group, Global Movement for Igbo President (GLOMIP), has renewed calls for the South-East to be allowed to produce Nigeria’s President in 2023.
Dr Nnanna Igwe, GLOMIP Coordinator in the United Kingdom and Europe said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, adding that the movement had resolved to use all legitimate means to achieve its desire.
He said that allowing South-East to produce the president in 2023,would help address injustice and imbalance in the country.
“At independence, Nigeria stood on a tripod of Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba, today only the Igbo nation has been denied the presidency of the country.
“What is good for the goose is also good for the gander, ” he said.
He noted that Nigeria was one of the most diverse countries in the globe with over 300 ethnic groups and more than 500 languages.
Igwe said the pre-independence agitation for Nigeria was predicated on patriotism,equity, justice, fairness, love, rule of law, democracy, peace, unity for progressive virile one Nigeria.
He added that the country was facing challenges which could be only addressed through effective governance.
“You can see the glaring imbalance and this is why the time has come to do the needful in 2023. To save Nigeria, something urgent must be done,” he said.
Igwe added that there was however, need to restructure the country.
He further added that the problems of bandits attacks and by Boko Haram terrorism must be urgently tackled for a lasting peace in the country
2023: Nigerian Youth regroup to seek political power
Ahead of 2023 general elections, some Nigerian youth are regrouping under the banner of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), in a bid to seek alternative solution to their problems, including taking political power from the elites.
The YPP is a social-democratic political party in Nigeria, created to challenge the two major parties, the ruling the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Mr Charles Folayan, the leader of the youth, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
He said that the current political permutation among elites in the country was not in their favour, adding that there was the need to move swiftly to arrest the situation.
He said, “We have observed that the ongoing 2023 political permutations among the political elites do not reasonably consider the youth, and the various agitations of the youth had not been given the needed priority.”
Folayan said that the Nigerian youth are now busy searching for alternative solutions to the problems bedeviling them through the YPP.
He disclosed that the internet was already providing them with the alternative solutions, however undesirable.
According to him, the dangers of leaving the youth to their own devices to “fend” for themselves, have been demonstrated in recent times.
“Therefore, the energy of the youth must be directed towards finding solutions to their problems,” he said.
He said this will forestall their energy being diverted to destructive activities that would not help anyone at the end.
