The South South Youth Assembly has thrown their weight behind the candidature of Abdulaziz Yari as the best candidate for the Senate president position.
The group in a statement made available to Blueprint by its South South Assembly president, Comrade Emmanuel Nkpubre, came out in full force to tell the nation why Abdulaziz Yari should be the person to occupy the position of the number three citizen.
The group in the statement said this is the time to do away with sectionalism, religionalism, ethnicity and other nomenclature and focus on developing the nation.
The South South Youth Assembly noted that since the nation transmuted to democracy, the South South, South East and North Central had occupied the position, except the North West, which overtime had contributed majority votes.
The group also noted that from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) record, the North West contributed the majority votes that helped Ahmed Bola Tinubu to win the presidency.
The assembly said this is the time to look inwards for somebody, who has the capacity to deliver what has been lacking in the country.
“Moreover, his Excellency, Abdulaziz Yari is capable and will partner the President-elect to help the region to fight for resource control.
“His Excellency, Abdulaziz Yari will partner with the President-elect to fight for us to have the resource control we have been clamoring for. Over time our people have not help us, it is outsider that have helped us.
“For example, it was through President Musa Yar’Adua and the help of Olusegun Obasanjo that the zone was able to get Ministry of Niger Delta. We have the hope that Abdulaziz Yari will fight for us to get what we want.
“It was also through these two presidents the region was able to get Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). When Joseph Wayas was the President of the Senate, the region didn’t benefit anything, same thing with President Godluck Jonathan. His government was not beneficial to South South. All the benefits that the region has benefitted came from outsiders.
“We charge the Senator representing us to vote massively for Abdulaziz Yari for Senate presidency and we want to warn that any of them, who vote for Godswill Akpabio will not benefit anything from the youths from this region,” the group said.
Comrade Nkpubre in the statement also disclosed that “We don’t want to send somebody there that will disgrace us. We don’t want to send somebody, who will not listen to us. This is not the time to play on our intelligence. This is the time to build this country and look for people that are capable. The capable person here is Abdulaziz Yari.
“Alhaji Yari is cool headed and will not rubbish the image of the parliament. Unlike some contenders, who have so many baggages that will dent the image of the Senate and the nation.
“And lastly, Abdulaziz Yari will take the Senate to a greater heights and that is the kind of person the upper chamber of the National Assembly needs now.”
