By Ayodele Oni
The Northern Coalition Youth Movement, (NYMI) an arm of Arewa, has accused President Bola Tinubu led administration and the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) of a plan to weaken the economic nerve centre of the north.
Speaking at a press conference at Arewa House in Kaduna on Saturday, the secretary general of the movement, Ibrahim Inuwa, alleged that one of the moves being made by the government to undermine the region is using judiciary to subvert the people’s mandate in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara.
According to him, in recent times, it has been observed with dismay, how the judiciary has become the lapdog to the executive arm of government.
“Gone are the days when judges dish out logical judgments that are acceptable to the litigants in any disputes. It is however sad that the administration of Bola Tinubu and APC has resorted to using the judiciary to snatch what it has lost at the ballot.
“Under the APC, the votes of the people no longer count, this is because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has become an extended part of the ruling party.
“Judiciary has now become the rubber stamp to the massive scale of electoral robbery in the country. Where the INEC fails to award victories to APC candidate, the same courts are the avenue where the victories of the opposition parties are now only arrested but also stolen and given to the APC.
“Nigerians are living witnesses to what is going on in the Court of Appeal with respect to the governorship poll in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara States where the opposition parties have won the state at the ballot box and the attempt by the Federal Government to snatch these states from the winning political parties.
“What is even more embarrassing is the case of Kano where the Court of Appeal is still finding it hard to defend its verdict on the election which many have come to see as very ignoble and horrible.
“The fact that the verdict is tainted was further shown as the NNPP try to secure the certified true copy of the judgment revealed the underhand dealings that must have happened with the document revealing contradictory outcomes. Some paragraphs upheld the election of Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as duly elected.
“The embarrassment created by the nasty scenario is yet to abate as we address you as the action has further put the judiciary in the negative spot in the minds of right thinking Nigerians who have lost faith in that vital arm of the government.
“The most laughable verdict also is the issue of internal affairs of each political parties which is clearly enshrined in our electoral act and which the supreme court has long settled, yet that is the issue the same judiciary is using to upturn Kano’s mandates which was freely given to NNPP.”
The coalition also accused the Tinubu’s government of waging war against leading political lights from the region in a bid to destroy or whittle down their relevance before the poll.
Saying the coalition has been monitoring the development for some time, he urged leaders in the North to live up to their responsibility of protecting the interest of their region.
“We wish to draw the attention of the people of the North to an ongoing sinister plot by President Tinubu and the ruling All progressives Congress APC to politically decimate the North and render it impotent ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general election.
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