By Suleiman Anyalewechi
A Northern youth pressure group- the Arewa Youth Assembly, AYA , has raised alarm over alleged plots by some vested interests to mete out to President Bola Tinubu, the same treatment dished out to former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
The group, at a media briefing on Sunday, May 10, 2026, alleged that there is an orchestrated plot to create crisis and fragment the ranks of the All Progressive Congress, APC, with the ultimate aim of frustrating the second term ambition of President Tinubu.
Mohammed Aliyu, AYA Coordinator, linked the recent leadership crisis within the Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, to the wider plan by some forces to distabilize the APC ahead of the 2027 polls.
“In a replay of the script of what happened in the build-up to the 2015 general elections, these enemies of President Tinubu and Nigeria want to use the PGF to launch their assault on our democracy.
“If you recall, the problem former President Goodluck Jonathan encountered, which cost him the Presidency, started with division within the Governors Forum headed by the then Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.
“Because these renegades could not break or manipulate Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, who is currently the PGF Chairman, they went for a soft target in Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state to set in motion machinery aimed at stopping Tinubu’s re-election.
“Abiodun not only recruited another soft target, Governor Peter Mbah, of Enugu State, to work against his own brother, they also found willing tools among a few Governors.
“They hastily.announced the removal of Gov Uzodinma because they saw him as an impediment to their perfidious.plot.
“But the majority of Governors rallied round their chairman to put down that insurrection. We are also happy that the majority of the Governors are from the Northern part of the country ,which confirms our resolve to honour the rotation agreement by ensuring.that President Tinubu completes his two terms before power shifts to the North in 2031”, the AYA stated.
According to the group, there are some renegades within the APC who have been planted as moles to be used in creating crisis and distabilize the party.
” In short, they want to play the Nyesom Wike card by weakening the internal mechanism of the APC the same way Wike did against the PDP”, Aliyu noted
However, the group warned that it will not sit idly by and watch as some people it described as unscrupulous elements , achieve their ambition of fragmenting the ruling party.
It has, therefore, issued a 48 hour ultimatum for those behind the unnecessary rumpus in the PGF to apologise to the President and Governor Uzodinma or prepare to face mass action by the youth group.
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