2019: Minna stands still as Northern youths drum support for Atiku

Niger State on Friday came to a stand still when youths in their thousands from the North Central geopolitical zone of the country converged to drum support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for presidency come 2019.

The youths, under the umbrella of: “Coalition for Northern and Southern Youths Assembly,” North Central chapter, brought both business and government activities to a standstill in Minna when they staged a mini carnival to mobilize the youths to queue behind Abubakar for 2019.

The mini carnival, which terminated at the Abdulsalami Abubakar Youths Center in Minna, where they gathered in their hundreds, is the largest gathering of youths in recent time.

This is coming barely four days after the former Vice President declared his intention to contest the Presidency in 2019 during his visit to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The convener of the Assembly, Comrade Patricia Ogar, told the youths in her welcome address that the way forward for the millions of jobless Nigerian youths is to support the presidential ambition of Abubakar in 2019.

Speaker after speaker, the youths were unanimous in their condemnation of the present administration, which they said has no programme for the Nigerian youths.

Ogar pointed out that the Nigerian youths have a choice to make in 2019 whether to remain where they are at the moment or take their destiny in their hand by supporting Abubakar who has a comprehensive programme for them.

She said: “Atiku Abubakar is the only one for now that has identified and share the problem of the Nigerian youths.

“He is passionate with plight of the Nigerian youths.”

Ogar insisted that the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was largely due to its inability to recognize the fact that the youths are the engine room of the country towards achieving any meaningful development, stressing: “As it is today, we the youths account for 80 per cent of the country’s population and that is why any government that ignores the youths does that it own peril.”