In a statement signed by the National Leader of the Yoruba Youth Council, Eric Oluwole, and made available to newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the council said does not plan to organise any solidarity rally for President Buhari.
The statement reads: “It has come to our notice that a group known as Yoruba Progressive People’s Congress, an arm of a political party (name withheld) led by one Pelumi Amodu is by no means a representative of Yoruba Youth Council or working for YYC.
“The group in its own wisdom endorsed and called for a nationwide rally in the name of Yoruba youths aftermath the letter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We at the Yoruba Youth Council hereby dissociate ourselves from this plan. We all know this not a good time for such rally with unmitigated attendance of killings, mass destruction of properties as well as disregard to the principle of federal character through lopsided federal appointments among other reasons.”
Yoruba Youth Council described the said rally as a way of causing unnecessary rift among Yoruba youths and also to cast aspersion on the values and integrity of Yoruba youths.
It said: “We view this act as only a means by the organiser to deceive Mr President and scoop monetary gains at the expense of ever dynamic and resourceful Yoruba Youths.”
The statement called on all Yoruba youths to shun any form of rally and refrain from participating in any rally under false umbrella of Yoruba youths.
The YYC reiterated its stand on the need for leaders and older generations in Nigeria not to take youths for granted or see them as political tools as this can not augur well for the country.
It also urged the Federal Government to ensure that there is no increase on the price of fuel.
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