Daily Trust

2019: Youths to buy form for Buhari

- By Clement A. Oloyede

Some Nigerian youths under the Democratic Youth Congress (DYC) have concluded plans to purchase nomination form for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid.

The national chairman of DYC, Kassim Muhammed Kassim, a member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, said the group with about four million registered members, had unanimousl­y agreed to mobilize and contribute a thousand naira each to sponsor and buy the form for the president.

He said those the president’s to re-contest should rather their grievances the youths for the president to

He said the group had earlier approached the court to compel the president to seek re-election because of the giant strides of his administra­tion.

Kassim said it was in view criticizin­g decision in 2019 channel towards forcing seek reelection. of the president’s resolve to seek re-election that the group further approached the court to discontinu­e the suit because it had already been overtaken by events.

Earlier, DYC’s counsel, Ismail Zubairu, had told the court that the plaintiff had on April 17 filed a notice of discontinu­ance and no response had been received from the defendants. He therefore applied for the case to be struck out.

The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, accordingl­y struck out the case.

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