{"id":39717,"date":"2015-06-18T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=39717"},"modified":"2015-06-18T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:41:47","slug":"tinubu-behind-call-for-buharis-resignation-northern-youths-allege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubu-behind-call-for-buharis-resignation-northern-youths-allege\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu behind call for Buhari\u2019s resignation, Northern Youths allege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50811\">Some youths in the northern part of Nigeria under the aegis of<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50930\">Northern Youths Movement (NYM) have accused All Progressives Congress<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50958\">(APC) leader, Senator Bola Tinubu of being the brain behind the call<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50959\">for the resignation of President Mohammadu Buhari, saying Tinubu was<\/span><br \/>\ngradually unfolding his actual agenda to hijack the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>A group, which called itself The PDP Media Watchdog, had reacted to<br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50960\">the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, declaring and<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50961\">admitting that his age will affect his performance rate as President<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50929\">of Nigeria by urging the president to resign from office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50928\">Already, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had disowned the group,<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50927\">saying it was unknown to the party and had no connection whatsoever<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50926\">with the party at any level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its reaction, the NYM in a statement signed by its Protem Chairman,<br \/>\nMallam Ishaya Jato alleged that the press statement credited to The<br \/>\nPDP Media Watchdog actually emanated from Tinubu\u2019s media office in<br \/>\nLagos.<\/p>\n<p>The northern youths said the statement was released to gauge the pulse<br \/>\nof the public on Tinubu\u2019s larger agenda of installing his crony, Prof<br \/>\nYemi Osinbajo (SAN) as the president of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>NYM disclosed that it was part of the agenda to cut short Buhari\u2019s<br \/>\ntenure that Tinubu desperately wanted to hijack the Senate and House<br \/>\nof Representatives by installing his cronies as Senate President,<br \/>\nDeputy Senate President, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of<br \/>\nRepresentatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe comment made in South Africa by President Buhari, regarding his<br \/>\nage was deliberately hyped by Tinubu\u2019s hatchet men in the media and<br \/>\nthe call for the president\u2019s registration was aimed at gauging the<br \/>\nreaction of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, we are aware that Tinubu\u2019s camp is working on the possibility<br \/>\nof President Buhari not completing his term, either due to failing<br \/>\nhealth or death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we youths in north are aware of his (Tinubu) plot against<br \/>\nthe north and we wish to tell him that we are watching.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50966\">\u201cHe has failed in his attempt to hijack the National Assembly and use<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50965\">it to impeach President Buhari and we want to assure Tinubu and his<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1434636891958_50964\">cronies that President Buhari will not only complete his tenure, he<\/span><br \/>\nwill go for second term,\u201d NYM said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some youths in the northern part of Nigeria under the aegis of Northern Youths Movement (NYM) have accused All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Senator Bola Tinubu of being the brain&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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