Youth council warns of impostors in Rivers

The leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has cautioned its members and all stakeholders on a recent gathering of “some impostors” in the name of NYCN in Rivers State.

President of NYCN, Bello Bala Shagari, yesterday, in Abuja, said it was unfortunate that a number of hired people gathered in Rivers State in the name of the council to create disharmony and confusion among Nigerian youths for cheap political and personal gains at the expense of the youths.

Shagari said, “Painfully, most of those who have gathered to conduct the illegal exercise which they refer to as a congress in Rivers State are not members of the council and are mostly overaged men who think they can hold Nigerian youths to ransom because they don’t like a new young leadership that emerged in the Gombe elective congress which was overseen by the Ministry for Youth and Sports Development.

“They were previously chased away from Imo State where they wanted to begin their illegal activities before being provided with a safe haven in Rivers State.

“As a duly elected President of the NYCN by Nigerian youths from all the 36 states of the federation and 104 Voluntary Youth Organisations (VYOs), I want to call the attention of the general public to disregard such belittling action by the NYCN impostors in Rivers State.”

He also urged security agencies to take the organisers of the illegal gathering “which is a threat to national security” into custody.