*Insists they are desperate politicians
By Jude Opara, Abuja
With just days to planned march by former presidential candidate and rights activist, Omoyele Sowore and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, a group under the aegis of the Northern Nigeria Youth Leadership Forum (NNYLF) has cautioned those planning to be part of that exercise to stay away to avoid any breakdown of law and order.
It could be recalled that Sowore has been mobilizing notable Nigerians and members of the general public to turn out enmass on October 20 for a march to the Presidential Villa to urge President Bola Tinubu to free Kanu who has been in detention since his rendition from Kenya in 2021.
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, President of the NNYLF, Murtala Mohammed Garba said his group has already mobilized about 63 million youths from Northern Nigeria to kickstart a three day rally aimed at pleading with President Tinubu to contest the 2027 election.
Garba said the clarion call on the President is due to his good works which he insists have started yielding the needed dividends of democracy.
The NNYLF leader added that while he is not against the release of Kanu, he claimed that the duo of Sowore and Atiku are not real because they are desperate politicians who want to use the planned march for their political gains.
“Sowore has nothing in Nigeria, not even a house. He stays in the hotel and his children are all based abroad in America with his wife. Atiku wants to realize his selfish with the blood of Nigerian youths. His children are not in the country.
Desperate politicians like the former Vice President and Sowore, we are saying no to them. We have a lot of problems in Nigeria and we are saying no to them.
“And the greatest mistake they have done is that the October 20 they have fixed is the same day about 63 million young vibrant intellectual youths of Northern Nigeria are coming to plead on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to continue with his good works. We will be on the streets of Abuja for three days, from October 20 to 23.
“And when we talk about Renewed Hope of President Tinubu, we are not talking about political parties, whether you support the President of not, this is the hope of the entire Nigerian youths because of the Student loan he has given to us.
“We are calling on all desperate politicians in Nigeria to allow this pilot who has take off successfully to land successfully. We the leadership of the Northern Nigeria Youth Forum to derail this pilot”.
“I am not against his release, but the likes of Sowore and Atiku are only trying to play politics with it. They are not the right people to stage any protest. They are not true democrats, if they are real, they should call a press conference and speak to that and the president who his a true democrat will listen to them,” he concluded.
