Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), yesterday, expressed displeasure with the National Chairman of the? People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for? endorsing the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015.
The northern youths pointed out that Tukur’s declaration that Jonathan could contest the next presidential election was part of the script of the Aso Rock occupants to position their pay master for the polls.
Addressing Journalists in Kaduna, the President of the forum, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu said, “AYF has always been aware that the election/selection of Bamanga Tukur as the Chairman of PDP against the wish of his people in the north will pose a great threat to the realisation of the aspirations of the region.
“However, we want Bamanga to be aware that no matter how he dances to the wishes of those that installed him as the Chairman of PDP, the North as a region has what it takes to define its fate either now or later.
“It is our belief that the political leaders of the zone and the Northern States Governor’s Forum led by Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu will not fold their hands and allow the zone to be trampled upon by those that we assisted to occupy the seat of power.
“We want to state categorically that no amount of intimidation and harassment will make us to abandon our quest for what is just, fair and equitable to the north and Nigeria in general,” Gugunju said.
He continued, “When the time comes, as an umbrella body of youths in the north, we will make our position known on what has been going on within and outside the region.