North Central Coalition Youth Groups Ask Lawmaker, Peller, to Vie for 2023 Presidency

    Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

    The Coalition of Youth Organisations in the North Central geo-political zone of the country,  yesterday asked a serving member of the House of Representatives under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Shinna Abiola Peller, to contest the 2023presidential election to bring effective leadership to the governance of the country.

    Peller is representing Iseyin /Iwajowa/Kajola/Itesiwaju Federal constituency of Oyo state at the National Assembly.

    The coalition, however, said that “the era of voting for an old and sick politician is over, with the current economic reality, we can’t afford to elect a president that will spend 100 days on a sick bed, travel every 3 months for medical tourism oversea.”

    Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, the Convener of the Coalition of Concerned Youth Organiations (CCYO), North Central, Mr. Moses Adeyefa, who was flanked by other members of the group, said that time is ripe for a youthful Nigerian president.

    The people, who were armed with various inscriptions like Shina Pelller Run 2023,”,”Youth President is Possible,” “Youth Choice, Our Choice 2023,” “Youth Takeover 2023,” and”2023 Youths Can, Shina Peller Can2023,” as well as  “Shinna Peller Positive Choice,” said that,  “young Nigerians constitute over 65 per cent of the country’s total population and  that they had been deprived from the dividends of democracy and marginalized from the political and economic structure of the country.”

    The coalition also said that lack of involvement of educated people in grassroots politics and low participation of the vast majority of young Nigerians in active politics had further created decayed system.

    “The Nigerian youths are the number one victim of a failed system of government, bad governance, and corruption, wrong governmental policies in critical sectors, such as education, economic, mining and manufacturing. 

    “The common Nigerian youth, due to the decay in our political and economic systems, has automatically become a tool in the hands of bad politicians as political stooge and thugs.

    “We, the leadership of the concerns Nigerian youths, under the umbrella of the Coalition of Concern Youth Organisations with over 50 independent youth bodies and membership of over 40 million youth in the 36 states of the federation, including the federal capital, have come to the realisation that we can’t allow those who do not have a stake in the future of Nigeria to continue to determine our future.

    “It is, therefore, imperative for us to come together as youth with common pains and consanguinity, and take control of our future by  getting involved in party politics and the electoral processes, with the aim of supporting young competent and result-oriented youth to get into the position of leadership across the 36 states of the federation.” 

    The CCYO threatened that they should not hesitate to sue Peller if he failed “to heed to our call to run for the position of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria in the 2023 election.”