Arewa youths fault Ohanaeze, insist power rotation unconstitutional

AREWA Youth Consultative Forum ( AYFC) has faulted the Ohaneaze Ndigbo over its rotational presidency advocacy, saying that such political arrangement is not constitutional and should be jettisoned.

The group said Ndigbo were not in tune with the political reality in Nigeria by insisting on a “contraption called rotational presidency, which cannot be found anywhere in the country’s constitution.”

AYCF was responding to the press conference by Ohanaeze, which rejected the position of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State that rotational presidency could not be found anywhere in Nigeria’s Constitution, urging stakeholders to stick to merit of any presidential candidate as against ethno- regional or religious leanings.

In a statement signed by the National President, Yerima Shettima, the AYCF said the Northern leaders and youths had come a long way and therefore “cannot be intimidated by anyone or stampeded into sheepishly supporting a regional candidate for the nation’s 2023 presidency.”

The AYFC described as laughable the claim by Ohanaeze that Governor Bello was still a student when Nigerians like the late Abubakar Rimi, Solomon Lar and others advised that power rotation should be adopted.