Igbo group accuses Nigeria Governors Forum of being enemies of Nigerian youths

On Sunday, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) slammed the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), calling them the true enemies of Nigerian youths.

According to the council, the 36 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have denied Nigerian youths political and economic opportunities to compete with their counterparts in other countries.

The Nigeria Governors Forum, led by Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, should avoid the upcoming 2023 presidential election, according to an OYC release signed by its National President, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, made available on Sunday.

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The Igbo youths scowled at “the over-ambitious political mentality of Nigeria’s failed governors since 1999,” as they put it.

“The state governors’ corruption tendencies and tyrannical approaches to local government elections, as well as the mismanagement and diversion of funds from local government councils, are definitions of incompetence, and such a class of political gangsters in Nigeria cannot be trusted with the Nigerian Treasury in the president’s office.”

“In all likelihood, the 36 members of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) are the real enemies of Nigerian youths.” They have deprived Nigerian youths of political and economic opportunities that would allow them to compete with their counterparts in other countries.

“With the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) record of 774 local government areas and 8,809 wards since 1999, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has denied 18, 576 youths the opportunity to be local government Chairman/Vice-Chairmen and 105,708 youths the opportunity to be Councillors, bringing the total number of politically incapacitated youths in Nigeria to 124,284.”

“The local government council elections could have been held 12 times if the LGA Chairman and Councillors had a two-year term,” Comrade Igboayaka said.

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“We frowned at the NGF’s statement stating that “Nigerian Governors’ Forums of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and People’s Democratic Party, PDP have been meeting and consulting on producing Presidential candidates of both the APC and the PDP,” and that their consultations have advanced to a level of reaching consensus on who they are to the front in the two political parties to contest for president, come the 2023 presidential election,” according to the Igbo youths.

The Nigeria Governors Forum’s plot to merge APC and PDP presidential candidates, according to the youth group, is a futile effort.