It Would Be Suicidal Returning APC To Power In 2023 – Northern Awareness

A group of northerners, led by Prof. Usman Yusuf, the former head of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Mahdi Shehu, and Ladan Salihu of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), have declared that it would be suicidal and destructive to allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) to retake power in 2023.

The announcement was made on Sunday during a news conference in Kano by the organization Northern Awareness Initiative, who also promised that similar events will be held in the coming days throughout the north to inform the populace about the need of ousting the current APC.

According to data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, the organization also accused the APC-led Federal Government of causing over 130 million Nigerians to fall into poverty over the previous eight years (NBS).

They also mentioned the neglect of 20 million out-of-school children.

Pro Yusuf statement read, “The present administration told us eight years ago that they want to fight corruption, they want to secure this nation and they want to improve the economy, all they have done so far is the opposite.

“I am from Katsina; one third of my state is under seige by bandits. We have never seen IDPs in Katsina until this government came in. My state capital is filled up with IDPs.

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“We gave President Buhari 1.2 million votes in the last elections, what have we to show for it? Death and destruction.

“Kano gave him 1.8 million votes, what do you have to show for it? The whole of the north has nothing to show for the eight years of the APC rule.

“In recent years we have not seen as much poverty as we have seen today.

“The National Bureau of Statistics said 133 million Nigerians are now in multidimensional poverty.

“We have never seen that, we have come to a time when the President himself is blaming the governors for poverty.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we did not give him this presidency to blame anybody else. Now that the game is over, you are blamie somebody else?

“They have failed, the APC government has failed.

“Fighting corruption; we have seen a lot more corruption cases under this government.

“He has not fought corruption, he has not improved the economy, the economy is worse and where we are today, insecurity is the worst ever in our life time.

“We are, therefore, educating our people that it is going to be suicidal for people to vote APC to power again.