By; AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna
The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA), has called for the immediate suspension of the 2023 general elections to enable Nigerians, especially menial workers from Northern Nigeria that are littered all over the country in search of greener pastures return to where they registered to vote.
A statement issued by Mohammed Salihu Danlami, Speaker of the group said, “We are worried that even those in the city, whose polling units are far away from their homes can’t be able to transport themselves to cast their votes.”
The statement added, “We are particularly worried over the increasing spade of carnage and attacks on security formations in the Southeast and other private businesses in the Southwestern part of the country. If security personnel and formations and banks can be attacked with ease, what more of armless innocent Nigerians?”
The statement lamented that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Committee on Fuel Scarcity and the recommendations by the National Council of State, National Assembly, and Nigeria Governors Forum on how to ease the suffering the masses are passing through have failed following the bitting fuel and naira scarcity across the country which has defied all known solutions proffered.
In order not to deny Nigerians the privilege of electing who will be in charge of the beloved country in the next four years, the statement called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to suspend all processes leading to the election.
It noted that failure to suspend the election would be considered as tactical rigging targeted at poor Nigerians, as most of them are struggling to survive in this challenging period caused by the artificial scarcity of the Naira.
