The All Progressives Congress (APC) youth wing has proposed a convocation of the Inter-generational National Equity Conference to resolve various national issues.
This was disclosed to journalists by Member of the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CENCPC) and the National Youth leader of the party, Barrister Ismaeel Ahmed, at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.
According to the youth leader: “This is a conference where the government is going to come to the table and discuss with some youths on the need to see that this country belongs to every one of us and whatever we do now will echo for eternity or at least, the next 30years and those people who are going to lead in that next 30 years should be part of the discussion on how to reshape this country.
“This is a conversation that we need to have; it’s a conversation we are pushing the government to have. It’s a conversation that hopefully we will have when this is all over and we can have a real conversation on how to move our country forward.”
The youth leader, who affirmed the right of the protesting youths to peaceful protests, appealed to them not to give room to angry elements to hijack the protest with the notion that the on-going crisis is a result of years of mistrust of the government.
He however described the violent turn of the protest after over 10 days of peaceful outing as unfortunate.
“I think it is unfortunate, but look I have been in the country for long to know that whenever there is a platform like this, there will be an attempt for a few people to hijack it.
“From the beginning, a lot of people suspected that this is an attempt to stampede a democratically elected government out of office.
“If really these people are patient, all they need is to mobilise, there is an election coming up in 2023 but of course there will be attempts by people who are disgruntled politicians, who couldn’t take us out of poverty but will want to use innocent people through this platform where youths are asking for Police reform to get at the government. But is not going to happen.
“I am sure the protesters know that they should not allow disgruntled elements and fifth columnist to get into them to try to derail them from what they have gained and I hope that they will listen to me and not allow this protest to be hijacked by politically motivated persons,” he said.
