By Collins Kaineme
The chairman of Nigeria’s newest party, the Action Peoples’ Party (APP) Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has called out the president for failing and adjudged the nation to be on the brink of collapse, due to the president’s colossal failure and inability to lead.
Ugochinyere, who was speaking during the launch of his party in Abuja on March 19, 2018, called on Nigerian youths to join forces with the party to “unseat the ruling APC of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 and fix both the security challenges, poor economy, unemployment and end the spate of killings in the country.”
The former aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki and former president of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), who was incarcerated for a large part of 2017 over his squabble with the Minister of Youth & Sport Development, pledged to “mobilise Nigeria youths to send the older generation of leaders out of power, so as to end the era of recycling old people in leadership position.”
He further berated the president for failing to uphold the promises he made prior to the 2015 elections.
“The president made tripod promises of tackling insecurity, corruption and the economy. Sadly three years down the line, we are still plagued by unemployment, insecurity, hungry and disunity which according to him, affected the youth more than any other section of the population,” Ugochinyere said, as he urged all young people to embrace the party and ensure she sweeps the stands come the polls in 2019.
The youth activist further assured the gathering that the APP is new and was not unaware of the need to re-invigorate the nation’s economy, seeing as it remains key to the nation’s unity and progress.
“When we win the 2019 polls, we shall seek national healing and revisit all the killings and violations. We will bring perpetrators to book and drag them before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In everything we do, we shall put Nigeria first.”
Other speakers at the launching also agreed on the need to halt recycling of old ideas into the polity, create jobs to reduce unemployment, reunite the citizens to end disunity and fight corruption and hunger by doing away with nepotism in the polity.
