Ibnsultan:
Yoruba Youths Congress (YYC), a socio-
cultural group, on Tuesday announced its
endorsement of Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) as the APC presidential candidate.
The group, however, urged Buhari to reserve 40 per cent of his appointments for youths if he was elected as the president in 2015.
[size=15pt]With GMB we will have a better arm forces[/size]

SirHouloo:
Where are they from? Who initiated the group? I feel they 've just done dat on behalf of themselves and their family.

Mogidi:
And a stronger boko haram also, don't forget that.

OtunbaJega:
Sai Buhari... The Yorubas are wise

Ibnsultan:

With Buhari our military will be upgraded
Our police forces restructured
With Buhari transparency & accountability will be the order of the day
Vote wisely
Vote progress
Say No 2 looters & killerz

Johnpaul2k2:
everybody know These Youths from Waste region are never consistent in "ranting"

changing like camelon

Deadpan:
LIES!!

2015: Yoruba youth congress endorses Buhari for APC presidential ticket

on October 14, 2014 / in News 12:15 pm / Comments


The Yoruba Youths Congress (YYC), a socio-cultural group, on Tuesday announced its endorsement of Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate.

Olalekan Hammed, the National Leader of the group, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan.

Hammed said that the group believed Buhari was good enough to fly the APC presidential flag, having considered his past records.

“Retired General Buhari is an attested disciplinarian who was able to curtail corruption during his regime as the Head of State of the nation between 1983 and 1985.

“His landmarks as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) are also still very evident in tertiary institutions of learning in the country,” he said.

According to Hammed, the group also considers and appreciates that the former head of state did not increase petroleum pump price during his tenure.

The group, however, urged Buhari to reserve 40 per cent of his appointments for youths if he was elected as the president in 2015.

“The youth have come a long way and we have seen the need to be given the chance to offer our ideas for the growth and development of this nation,” he said.

Buhari, a former Military Governor of the defunct North Eastern State, was also a one time Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources.

Buhari was a former leader of the Congress for Progressive Change which later merged with other parties to form the APC.

Splashme:
[size=13pt]Such association is non-existent in Yoruba land. It's not known. They are on their own. [/size]

Press Release | 2 June 2012 Last updated at 00:42 CET
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Yoruba youth group berates ACN over opposition to change of UNILAG to MKO Varsity

By Yoruba Youths Congress (YYC)


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A Yoruba youths group, the Yoruba Youths Congress (YYC) has accused the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) of supporting the protest that greeted the renaming of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola.

The group said it was appalled that the same ACN government in Lagos State that was able to quell the Lekki Toll Gate protest, using armed Mobile Policemen kept mute when protesters blocked Third Mainland Bridge, making life unbearable for millions of road users.

In a statement issued today by its Director of Media and Publicity, Comrade Funmiso Babarinde, YYC said; "With the seeming underhand support the ACN people and their allies gave to the protest and the party's denial of Abiola's son the ticket to contest the House of Reps, it must now be clear to all Yoruba sons and daughters that CAN and its allies never loved Abiola genuinely."

While commending the Federal Government for recognising Abiola's matrydom for democracy in Nigeria, YYC urged the government to initiate all required legal steps to perfect the change of name.

The group also urged the Federal Government go a step further by releasing the results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, at least to put the records straight.

"Before, it was clamour for MKO Abiola to be immortalised. Now that it has been done by naming a prestigious institution like the UNILAG after him, what else does these characters want?

"Why is it that these people always like to present we the Yorubas as troublemakers, who will can never be satisfied by anything?

"Or must everything be approached with intent to win cheap political points?

"Was it not from UNILAG that Abiola moved to Epetedo, Lagos for the Epetedo Declaration that led to his arrest and eventual death in detention?

"Definitely, these ACN people, who are obviously behind the protest do not mean well for MKO Abiola and the course he died for and our people should be conscious of the hypocrisy of ACN and its leaders," YYC said.

Omimah:
Buhari will ever get the votes of the South West and those of the North Central, North East and North West. The only places that would be taugh for him are the South East and the South South. I will however, ask APC in the South West work on some Yoruba people bringing religion into the polity of the Yoruba people. Yoruba people have always been known to be religious tolerant. Gbawe, take note of this.

Obiagelli:

With redeem's Prof yemi Osinbajo as Vp, the SW should be in the bag for Buhari.

Omimah:
Buhari will ever get the votes of the South West and those of the North Central, North East and North West. The only places that would be taugh for him are the South East and the South South. I will however, ask APC in the South West work on some Yoruba people bringing religion into the polity of the Yoruba people. Yoruba people have always been known to be religious tolerant. Gbawe, take note of this.

Gbawe:


I don't get you. Can you make your message more clear?