A scheme to undermine well-known Northern politicians before the 2027 election has been reported by the Coalition of Northern Youths Movement Initiative (CNYMI).
The group’s chairman, Hamza Bala Lawal, spoke at a press conference in Kaduna. He was accompanied by its secretary, Ibrahim Muhammad Inuwa. On the list of northern politicians facing political embarrassment were Senator Abdulazeez Yari, a former governor of Zamfara State who was ridiculed by the government when he attempted to become the nation’s Senate President.
Lawal emphasized that any injustice meted out to the northern region will be met with resistance and urged the judiciary, security services, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to uphold their oath of allegiance to the people and the Nigerian Constitution.
Additionally, the group warned politicians not to join forces with conspiracies to subjugate the northerners, claiming to be aware of attempts by some politicians to destabilize the area, particularly the Plateau states and Kano commercial city.
Lawal said, “Another Northerner who has also been humiliated since coming into being of this government is Senator Ali Ndume, who by right and qualification ought to be the Senate Leader but has since been relegated to be the deputy despite having served in that position in the past in the last 9th Assembly.
“Perhaps, the major casualty in the plot against the North is the former Governor of Kano State, Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who is being harassed on a daily basis to give up the mandate that the people of the state have given to his party in the general election.
“We are however calling on President Tinubu not to do anything that would truncate the peace and tranquility that exist in the country by allowing the will of the people in all electoral contests to prevail at all times.”
The chairman of the group also posited that Nigerians are witnesses to what is going on in the Court of Appeal concerning the governorship poll in Zamfara, Plateau and Kano States, where the opposition parties won the states at the ballot box and the attempt by the Federal Government to snatch these states from the winning political parties.
He added, “What is even more embarrassing is the case of Kano where the Court of Appeal is still finding it hard to defend its verdict on the election which many have come to see as very ignoble and horrible. The fact that the verdict is tainted was further shown when the NNPP tried to secure the certified true copy of the judgment revealed the underhand dealings that must have happened with the document revealing contradictory outcomes.
“While some paragraphs upheld the election of Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as duly elected. The embarrassment created by the nasty scenario is yet to abate as we speak as the action has further put the judiciary in the negative spot in the minds of right thinking Nigerians who have lost faith in that vital arm of the government.
“The most laughable verdict also is the issue of internal affairs of each political parties which is clearly enshrined in our electoral act and which the supreme court has long settled, yet that is the issue the same judiciary is using to upturn Kano’s mandates which was freely given to NNPP”
