Arewa Youth Integrity Forum Endorses Jonathan for Re-election
The Arewa Youth Integrity Forum has announced its endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan.
The group said it supports claims by President Jonathan’s campaign organisation that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is critically ill and not healthy enough to be President.
The AYIF in a statement released by its Coordinator, Ibrahim Abubakar, also said that the alleged plot by the APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to become president, upon Gen Buhari’s demise, is an attempt to tactically move power to the South-west as Buhari may not be strong enough to survive rigours of four years of presidency.
He said: “The alliance between Tinubu and Olusegun Obasanjo is similar to what happened in 2006 when the North was tactically denied the presidency by handing it to a man that was ill, Umaru Musa Yar A’dua who died to bequeath the seat to another southerner.
“We strongly believe this to be another scheme by the Tinubu/Obasanjo alliance which does not like the North, to deny the region of the presidency.
“It smacks of the same scheme employed by Obasanjo in 2006, when he presented an ill Yar’Adua as the North’s candidate amidst many healthy and vibrant aspirants knowing full well that the latter’s health condition would not allow for him to live through the tenure. We strongly refuse this tactic in 2015.”
Ibrahim urged Nigerians to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, adding that this would ensure that power would return to the North after four years.
