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number of traditional monarchs in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
and the Nigerian youths have been charged to drum their support for
their colleagues to take over mantle of leadership across boards in the
forthcoming 2019 general elections.
The National Chairman of Young Progressive Party (YPP),
Comrade Emmanuel Amakiri made this plea in Abuja while briefing newsmen
after formal declaration of an aspirant, David Adetunji Adeyeye for the
position of Federal House of Representatives for FCT on the party’s
platform.
Bamaiya lamented on how the two major political parties
in Nigeria have disappointed Nigerians in the last eighteen years,
calling on electorate especially youths to reject both the PDP and APC
in 2019 and embrace YPP, which he said is dominated by teeming Nigerian
youths.
“Prince DAA is just an aspirant who is declaring to run
for house of representatives under our party’s platform. Our party is
all about raising a new breed of politicians without greed. We are doing
politics in an unusual manner, we are youth centric, focus on youths
and we are giving youths 80% placement in both elective and appointive
positions, that is the position of party.
“There is an age you will reach in our party which you
cannot run for elective positions. If in the public service, people have
to retire at the age of 65, I see no reason why in politics, it is at
70 they begin to run for positions, we don’t have a space for such kinds
of positions in our party. But there could be a space for such person
to play advisory role to young people whom we want to project.
“We are out to push a paradigm shift completely because
we believe the young people are the majority of the people in Nigeria,
therefore they deserve to rule themselves in a more current and
civilised way unlike what is happening before.
“Presently people who are ruling us now have taken us
back to 18th century not even 19th century or 20th century and that is
not the kind of things we represent.
“By the grace of God, we are taking over Presidency in
2019 because we are the third force people have been looking for. We
don’t believe that APC has good for Nigeria, we don’t believe PDP has
good for Nigeria, they are all birds of the same feather. And those
other political parties that have formed a coalition together with the
PDP are all the same.
“We are the ones that are progressives, who can change
this country and we will present this country somebody who is 20 years
younger than the current President. At least minimum of 20 years younger
to be the President of Nigeria. That is the kind of paradigm shift this
party is after.
Speaking on whether YPP will field presidential
candidate in 2019, he said, “We have three Presidential aspirants that
are running under the ticket of this party. We have Prof. Kingsley
Moughalu, Donald Nwebu and we have Ayodele Favour. These are the three
aspirants who have declared already to run under our party’s platform
and our primaries is going to be soon, hopefully 1st of September here
in Abuja and one of them will emerge as our party’s candidate and we
will hit the ground.”
Also addressing journalists, Adeyeye, said he would back
calls for restructuring of the country if elected, adding that the new
thinking now should focus on how to restructure the affairs of the
country to ensure equity, Justice and fair play.
According to him, “The reality of the future dictates
that we use our diversity for innovative economic solutions for our
problems, unemployment, insecurity, lack of portable water or shelter
does not know tribe, gender or religion.”
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