The National Youth Council of Nigeria has called on President Bola Tinubu to implement policies that will help to mitigate the impact of economic hardship currently being experienced in the country.
According to the Council, in a statement on Monday, the rising cost of living in the country has become worrisome.
It said many students are finding it difficult to feed.
The apex youth body in Nigeria, through its President, Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, said: “Nigerians are hungry and Nigerians are angry; a hungry man is an angry man.
“We call on the President and the state Governors to roll out programmes and policies that will resolve the economic and security challenges in our dear nation.”
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Sokubo pleaded with Nigerians, especially youths, to be patient with the government as it strives to ensure that the current untold hardship, orchestrated by the fuel subsidy removal, is mitigated within a shortest period.
Also, he implored the Nigerian youth not to embark on any protest or join any planned protests against the Federal Government, lamenting that it was unfortunate that some unpatriotic elements are capitalising on the rising inflation and erratic exchange rate to exploit fellow citizens.
“Sometimes, it is not only the authorities that cause our problems, even we the citizens are taking advantage of what is happening in our society to undo our dear fellow citizens,” he added.
On his part, the National Deputy Secretary General of the NYCN, Comrade Rikki Nwajiofor, disclosed that the organ passed a vote of confidence on the Sukubo-led administration of the Council.
Nwajiofor made the disclosure while reading out the communique of the National Management Committee of the organisation.
Equally, the communique stated that Akoshile Mukhtar, Dotun Omoloye, Bashir Garba, Smart Uwakwe, Zaka Nehemiah, Izunna Agwuncha, Ibrahim Inuwa Dangata, Aminu Ubale Funtua, Blessing Onne Okwe and Clinton Avwoke were expelled from the organisation for acting in breach of the NYCN Constitution, 2018, as amended.
Furthermore, it declared that the Grand Commander of the Nigerian Youth, a title that was conferred on the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, as illegal, saying it did not emanate from the leadership of the NYCN.
It said: “As it stands today, the only Grand Commander of the Nigerian Youth is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Management categorically stated that the award given to the former Governor of Kogi State, His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Bello, by some money-loving Youths in the name of NYCN, is fake and invalid.
“Management recalled that he had earlier been awarded the Doyen of Nigerian Youth and he remains so.”
