2023: Kebbi youths want zoning jettisoned, level ground for all aspirants
2023: Kebbi youths want zoning jettisoned, level ground for all aspirants
Group of Kebbi Youths under the aegis of Coalition for Better Kebbi State, has urged the elders in the state to drop the ideal of zoning political position and should allow credible candidates with merits to lead the state in 2023.
The group,in their maiden meeting at Argungu Local Government Area, exhausted hours into deliberations with various youth’s leaders from different parts of the state.
Speaking with newsmen after their deliberations,, the Chairman of the Coalition, Malam Junaidu Wasagu, explained that the coalition was formed to address youths’ challenges, especially unemployment, drug addiction and criminality amongst the youths.
“Criminality, drug addiction and unemployment are the main reasons the coalition came into being to help in addressing and our focus is on those issues.
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“We observed that the issue of insecurity is all over the country, but the Northern Region is the worst affected. Our youths have nothing to do after they graduate from higher institutions.
“On the zoning of political offices in Kebbi, as you observe, many speakers at the meeting spoke against it.
“They all shunned it. They all want it to be jettisoned. What we want is that, let us go for candidates who posses all the criteria ; credible candidates with merits that can lead Kebbi State to it desire level irrespective of which zone they come from,” he said.
Also speaking, the Secretary of the coalition, Hon. Nafiu Garba Gunabi, also argued that the coalition kicked against zoning of political offices which some elders in the state had been agitating.
“Our coalition don’t want zoning. We want people to jettison the ideal of zoning and continue with the normal arrangement we have been adopting in electing our leaders. We should continue with our normal procedure”, he said.
Earlier speaking on the unity and peace, Malam Adamu Attahiru, charged the youths not to allow politicians to disintegrate them, stressing that the coalition was designed to redress youths and insecurity challenges in the state.
