The Coalition of Northern Youths Movement Initiative (NYMI) has alleged a grand plan by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration in conjunction with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to destabilize the North ahead of the 2027 election.
This was stated at a world press conference at Arewa House in Kaduna on Saturday.
By Ademu Usman Idakwo
The secretary general of the movement, Comrade Ibrahim Mohammed Inuwa said a series of agitations were being made by the government to undermine the region using the judiciary to subvert the people’s mandate in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara State in recent times.
The youth group observed with great concern, how the highly respected judiciary – which they said is expected to check as an independent entity – has become a 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 present administration has resorted to using the judiciary to snatch what it has lost through the ridiculous Judgment by the courts.”
One of the institutions targeted in their accusation is the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which they said has now been structured to do the bidding of APC.
The group equally alleged that, where the INEC failed to award victories to the ruling party, the Judiciary would step in to rob winners of their victories through judicial technicalities.
“Nigerians are living witnesses to what is going on in the Court of Appeal concerning the governorship poll in Kano, Plateau, and Zamfara States, where the opposition parties have won the state at the ballot, and to the attempt by the Federal Government to snatch these states from the winning political parties at all cost.
“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 judgment is tainted has further shown when the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP was trying to secure the Certified True Copy, CTC of the judgment.
The CTC revealed the underhand dealings that must have happened with the document with contradictory outcomes.
They said some paragraphs of the judgment upheld the election of Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as duly elected, while the oral judgement removed him as governor of Kano state.
“The embarrassment created by the nasty scenario is very difficult to overcome. As we address you, the action has further put the judiciary in the negative spot in the minds of Nigerians.”
