- … labels them non-existent
National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Kogi State chapter, has reacted to the indicting publication by the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria on the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
It described the statement by the northern group captioned “EFCC: NYCN vows to mobilise to ensure Gov Bello ends up in Prison after tenure expires” as needless vituperative rants.
Northern Youth Council’s publication went viral across various news platforms where it lauded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the uncommon courage to go after Governor Yahaya Bello and what the forum called “his looting cabinet members”.
However, Kogi NYCN noted that the publication was a desperate attempt to smear image of the Governor, obviously out fear for his rising profile nationally.
A statement signed by the chairman of Kogi State Chapter of NYCN, Ambassador Ogohi Samuel Usman and made available to newsmen in Lokoja, the state capital on Thursday stressed that, “that Kogi State under the leadership of our able and dynamic Governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello has been one of the few states in the country to pay salaries of her civil servants timely, and has over the past years built trust and a reputable name for himself”.
The statement reads: “the political jobbers in the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria and those that believe that Yahaya would fix 20 billion Naira of public funds in a fixed deposit account and withdraw same from the said ‘fixed deposit account’ clearly has a wrong knowledge of the banking system and a wrong notion about him and should desist from such defamatory statements.
“The publication by the so called group is not only targeted at the person of the Governor, but the State as well. Our peace and development has come under threat and must be resisted by all. Efforts are being made to ridicule and suppress the North Central’s presidential ambition currently flying through his excellency. Their evil machinations are dead on arrival.
“It is, however, disappointing that a Kangaroo group with a misleading acronym, “NYCN” who by all standard should be well informed and properly educated as professionals peddle fake news and defamatory statements in this time of security challenges in the country. We wonder how they deemed it fit to join in the needless propagation of an existing case which is still being investigated and tried in the court of law, the only competent body to do so?.
“We also want to make it known to the so called president of Northern Youth Council of Nigeria group that we are very aware his actions are sponsored by some disgruntled individuals and groups seeking to discredit the efforts of Nigerian Youths and women on their stand and unflinching support for the presidential ambition of all Nigerian youths spear headed by his Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello and to dent his reputable image in the state and the country by their childish political antics which are dead on arrival”.
Kogi people, the statement maintained are very much happy, satisfied and grateful for the government of Governor Yahaya Bello which resulted in the charge from the over 5.7 million youths of the Northern States and still counting across other groups-political zones calling on the Governor to go all out for the country’s presidency come 2023.
Kogi NYCN declared that Northern Youth Council of Nigeria is non-existent and out to mislead and misinform and does not have any affiliation with the National Youth Council of Nigeria.
They called on the group to desist from using the official acronym of the National Youth Council of Nigeria to carry out any hatchet job.
