Arewa Youths Assembly Calls For Postponement Of The 2023 Election

 

As scarcity of Nigeria’s new currency and fuel bites harder, Northern Youths have called for the postponement of the February 25th general elections.

The youths who stated that they cannot accept elections results under the current situation of the country said that most people will be disenfranchised

In a press statement signed by the Speaker of the Arewa Youth Assembly, Mohammed Salihu Danlami, it stated that “Continuing with the election as planned is daring and mocking the teeming Nigerian masses.

“Following the bitting Fuel and Naira scarcity across the country which has defied all known solutions proffered by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Committee on Fuel Scarcity and the recommendations by the National Council of State, National Assembly, and Nigeria Governors Forum on how to ease the suffering the masses are passing through.

“It has become imperative for the Arewa Youths Assembly to call for the immediate suspension of the 2023 General Elections to enable Nigerians, especially menial workers from our region who are littered all over the country in search of greener pastures to return to where they registered to vote.

“We are worried that even those in the city, whose polling units are far away from their homes can’t be able to transport themselves to cast their votes.

The northern youths group expressed that “We are particularly worried over the increasing spade of carnage and attacks on Security formations in the Southeast and other private businesses in the Southwestern part of the country. If security personnel and formations and banks can be attacked with ease, what more of armless innocent Nigerians?

“In order not to deny Nigerians the privilege of electing who will be in charge of our beloved country in the next Four Years, we wish to call on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to suspend all processes leading to the election.

“Failure to suspend the election will be considered as tactical rigging targeted at poor Nigerians, as most of them are struggling to survive in this challenging period caused by the artificial scarcity of the Naira.”