Over 3,000 members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Thursday, protested the recent deregistration of the council by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Addressing the press during the protest at CAC headquarters, Secretary General of NYCN, Barrister Abubakar Suleiman, said, as a senior lawyer, the Registrar General of CAC, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji (SAN), should be guided against delisting NYCN from CAC without waiting for court judgment.
He said: “Over 3,000 Nigeria youth are gathered here today, because of the impunity, lawlessness and the attitude of the Registrar General of the CAC. Nigeria is a federation. We are not living in a country of anomie. We are living in a country where the law works. The National Youth Council of Nigeria, the highest youth council, have its organisation registered with the CAC, Corporate and Affairs Commission.
“Just recently, two days ago, there was a publication from the CAC that it has withdrawn the certificate of National Youth Council of Nigeria, as well as set up a committee to manage the affairs of the council. We have a pending suit at the Court of Appeal against CAC. CAC is a party to a suit that is pending at the Court of Appeal.
“We had won a suit in Federal High Courts. They inferred that CAC has no power to delist the Youth Council of Nigeria. But quite unfortunately, the Registrar General went and delisted the Youth Council of Nigeria from the portal of CAC, and issued a publication, as well as set up a committee to manage the affairs of the National Youth Council of Nigeria.
“We are here to say no. Enough to impunity. Enough to this. It is obvious that the RG of CAC is working against the ambition of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Renewed Hope Agenda that we are all clamouring for, and we are all supporting the Renewed Hope Agenda.
“We are not just doing here today, we are not just stopping here. This is the first day of our flagging off. For 30 days, this protest will continue until President Tinubu sacks RG. We have mobilised our youths across the 36 states plus FCT, 774 local governments, to do the same protest in every state that CAC office is located.
“The same RG has a pending case before Court of Appeal and the same RG is here again to delist National Council of Nigeria from the list unlawfully, while there is a pending suit in the Court of Appeal. And we have won a suit at the Federal High Court and we got judgment.
“So on which ground is he deregistering NYCN? The CAC RG is a lawyer, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria for that matter. I’m a member of the Bar. I wonder how such person of hierarchy of the profession, a noble profession, a gentleman to the core, will do this. We say no to this impunity.”
