YOUTHS WARN OBJ, DESCRIBES HIM AS PRECURSORS OF NIGERIA'S ONGOING CHALLENGES

The Patriotic Youth Front of Nigeria (PYFN) has vehemently rejected the imposition of the Presidential candidate of the labour party on Nigerian youths.

Following the recent endorsement of Peter Obi by the former president, the group said Obasanjo is unfit to advise Nigerian youths.

The ex-president had in an open letter to young Nigerians on Sunday, urged the youths to vote for Peter Obi whom he described as his "mentee.

But PYFN in a press statement issued on Tuesday, December 3, by its president, Maxwell Ogar, said that "Obasanjo’s hands are not clean which makes him unfit to advise the Nigerian youth on whom to vote for president.

The group described the former president as one of the precursors of Nigeria’s ongoing challenges - socio-economic, security, and political" who is attempting to rewrite history and beatify himself "as the hero of Nigeria’s eventual triumph when in reality the former president is not 

It maintained that "Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi is rather a disservice to the upcoming national politician instead of being a boost because there is ample evidence that whatever this erstwhile civilian dictator lays his hands upon turns to dust.