Ahead of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) meeting billed for Wednesday September 4, Frontline group, Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has demanded for the sack and arrest of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike over what they described as a threat to democracy.
The NYLF comprising almost 50 youth groups from the 19 Northern states and FCT, expressed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Sokoto on Tuesday September 3.
“It is with great and utmost necessity that we issue this statement on the grave and dangerous statements made by the former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barr. Nyesom Wike.
” It will be recalled that Barr. Wike on Saturday August 31, 2024 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, publicly threatened to causing crisis of whatever form in the PDP controlled states because the PDP Governors expectedly identified with one of them in the Rivers State political crisis.
“We want to state clearly without mincing words that the Northern Youth viewed this statement as a call for anarchy, a threat to Democracy, highly provocative and an invitation to chaos that may completely erase whatever gains the Democratic dispensation has achieved or recorded and which also threatens the very fabric of our national cohesion, unity and progress.
“Consequently, the Northern Youth are concerned with the silences and in-actions of the Federal Government and the Security Agencies who have turned their deaf ears and blind eyes to this inimical, ruthless, arrogant, proud, boastful and irresponsible utterances of Barr. Wike which are capable of scuttling and destroying the trust and confidence we have in this administration,” the statement said.
According to the statement titled, “ARREST NYESOM WIKE NOW” the group categorically demanded the immediate arrest of Barrister Wike.
“To this end, we demand that the Federal Government should direct the Security Agencies to arrest Barr. Wike and be made to sign an undertaking that he will not In anyway initiate or carry out his threat and that he will be held responsible for any crisis In the PDP controlled states.
“Otherwise we will invariably believe that the Federal Government is complicit and is also backing Wike to cause crisis In these states as he is currently doing in Rivers State,” NYLF said.
They further demanded that he should also be dropped from the Federal Executive Council.
The group went harder by calling on the PDP to suspend the FCT Minister.
“Furthermore, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should as a matter of necessity and urgency, suspend Barr. Wike indefinitely and ban him from convening or attending party meetings at all levels.
“Consequently, we want to categorically state that the Northern Youth are strongly and firmly behind the Senator Bala Mohammed-led PDP Governors Forum as far as this matter is concerned and will do everything humanly possible within the confines of the law to support the Forum in any capacity or any form,” the group assured.
They reiterated their total and unflinching support to Governor Fubara and their Ijaw counterparts in this regard.
“In conclusion, we want to warn that we will not allow, entertain, tolerate, condone or witness any form of crisls in the the North as we are battling with insecurity on daily basis.
“Any Northerner found as accomplice in causing any political crisis will be definitely face the wrath of the Northern Youth,” they declared.
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