Nigerian youths, under the aegis of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over what they called illegal substitution of their representatives to the national conference.
In a petition letter signed by the chairman, and secretary, Comrade Abduljalal A. Dauda and Comrade Temple Chinedu Chika, respectively, yesterday, they expressed their grievances over “an attempt by some non-members of the NYCN and their conspirators to short-change the members of the opportunity to participate fully at the conference.”
The petition read: “The membership of the NYCN is corporate in nature; organisations and not individuals that are members and we sure that it is on this premise that the Office of the Secretary to the Federal Government in utmost good faith directed members to devolve back to their geo-political zones to elect our representatives to the conference as conveyed in national dailies on the guidelines for selecting delegates by organisations and your directive to members of NYCN to comply by organising zonal meetings of stakeholders to carry out the selection of our representatives.
“However, we wish to register our protest concerning the illegal replacement of truly elected representatives of NYCN from the various zones to the national conference which was submitted to your office by the six geo-political zones. As young people without adult supervision democratically in a free, transparent and fair exercise elected Comrade Ibukun-Oluwa Oluwole as the South-west representative, Temple Chinedu Chika was elected from the South-east, Amb. Hope George from South-south zone, Engr. Saleh Alhassan Kubah from North-west, while Comrade Abdullahi Abdulmajeed and Comrade Abduljalal A. Dauda from North-central and North-west respectively.”
They rejected the names submitted, saying that they were selected to represent the members of NYCN, and called on the President Goodluck Jonathan to “immediately change the names of representatives from various zone to reflect the wishes of the youth.”
