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Sufyan Sahabi, aspirant, National Youth Leader of APC
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
One of the aspirants for the office of National Youth Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming National Convention, Sufiyan Sahabi, has called on the leadership of the party to focus its attention of leadership recruitment on competence, justice and fairness in order to bring the change agenda of the party into fruition.
Sufyan Sahabi, while interacting with Journalists on Wednesday over the agitation of power rotation/zoning between the North and South said that, “I am a firm believer in equity and fairness. Even though I know rotational power arrangement is not written in the constitution, I believe if the majority agree that it should be followed, it is only fair that it is followed” .
He added that, “Ideally, as a people in a country, competence should have been our focus but if there exists any feeling of marginalisation which surely does exist, then let’s respect the feeling of our fellow countrymen,”.
The National Youth Leader aspirant further enjoined the party to give youths a clemency to run in the 2023 General elections by give them some concessions.
He added that one of the factors working against youths running for elective positions is finance for nomination form and campaign.
According to him, “The nature of our politicking doesn’t in any stretch favour young people. The finance required to purchase nomination forms, conduct campaigns are not easy to come by. Also, self doubt is rife and a strong limitation for ambitions” .
In searching for the next leaders of the country, he urged his party to look out for inclusive, pragmatic and a dogged patriot who won’t spare anything to get the country going in the right direction.
He further said that, “He should be adept at ideation and following through implementation at the right time.”
“I think the underrepresentation of youth is gross. Nigerian youths have shown that they have the capacity to hold their own at any level in the world, hence it is necessary they are given a more prominent opportunity to contribute to policy making, project delivery and the all round growth of the nation”, Sufyan Sahabi said.
He concluded that, “When we come together and accept that we are all on constituency understanding that we are all in the same boat and we have to sink or swim together, we would get the impetus to band together and pull together in a unified voice ready to participate wholly in our developmental journey,”.
