Northern Youths Won’t Support Buhari In 2019 ~ Shettima, AYCF president

The President of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), a coalition of youth groups in the 19 northern states, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has said that the entrance of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar into the 2019 presidential contest has changed the political calculation in the country, pointing out that Atiku Abubakar is the game changer.

Reacting to a question as to the conspiracy of the northern elite against his aspiration to lead the country as claimed by Atiku, Shettima submitted that the northern elite cannot force somebody the youths do not deserve on them.

He said that the North went for Buhari when in 2015 it was a race between him, a northerner and former President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the South, saying that the game has now changed with the entrance of Atiku into the race.