The recently appointed director general, Atiku Youth Wing, Comrade Rowland Odih, has described Benue State governor Samuel Ortom’s comment on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar as extreme, saying a leader of his status should desist from such comments.
Odih stated this in Maiduguri, Borno State yesterday while reacting to the statement credited to Ortom, on not supporting any Fulani for President.
He noted that youths hold the levers of change and should be bold to ask necessary questions towards enhancing the process of making Nigeria better.
Odih, therefore, called on young people living in the North Central region to engage Ortom on his recent comments.
Odih noted that Nigeria is in a very sensitive period, adding that leaders should start telling their followers to refrain from using words that suggest ethnic profiling.
He said such comments do not promote peaceful coexistence.
He said the world is now engaging young people in the process of leadership channelling to positive changes that can stimulate the economy and not the other way around.
He said that young people from the North Central Region should find time to engage their leaders and draw their attention to what they have done right or wrong and make proposals to them on how to better engage the youth, taking into cognizance the huge potentials they carry.
Odih urged the five aggrieved Governors to sheath their swords, as their collective interest is captured in the Atiku Proposal to Nigerians.
He, however, called on PDP leaders in Rivers, Benue, Oyo, Abia, and Enugu states among others that have shown strong willingness to work toward the party’s resounding victory to sustain the campaign.
