… CONDEMNS USE OF THE ASSEMBLY’S NAME FOR PAID DEVIOUS POLITICAL PLOTS TO DISCREDIT THE EFFORTS OF THE CBN GOVERNOR AND PRESIDENT BUHARI TO KEEP GROWING THE ECONOMY.
… SACKS FORMER SPEAKER OVER TENURE EXTENSION AND EXECUTION OF HATCHET JOB AGAINST BUHARI AND CBN GOVERNOR, APPOINTS NEW SPEAKER
The Arewa Youths Assembly has impeached and expelled her former Speaker Mohammed Salihu Danlami sacked over a statement credited to the former Speaker in which he attacked President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic agenda, maligned the person and office of the Central Bank Governor Mr. Godwin Emefiele and also threatening National security and the economy of Nigeria with possible breakdown of law and order. In a Press Conference addressed by the newly appointed Speaker Tahir Muhammad Azare he said Mr. Salihu Danlami despite resolution of the leadership of the Assembly not to use the platform for devious political plots went ahead to use the name of the Assembly to threaten national security and the economy of the country.
The group had said “we had asked ourselves, which Emefiele is Mr. Salihu Danlami talking about? Is it the CBN Governor who deployed over N756 billion to 3.7 million farmers cultivating over 4.6 million hectares of farmland under the Anchor Borrowers Programme? Or was it the same man who provided N23 billion in relief materials to Covid19 affected households and set up 39 Isolation Centres across Nigeria? We advised him and his thieving patrons to look elsewhere for a new target as Emefiele was a wrong target because he is not the cause of their poverty of ideas and take their fake news of Emefiele’s Presidential ambition somewhere else” Mr. Tahir Azare said.
Salihu Mohammed had in a statement, launched verbal attacks on the person and office of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, attacked the economic agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari and threatened to shut down the Central Bank of Nigeria indefinitely.
“We have since reliably gathered that the smear campaign against Emefiele was being sponsored by some faceless prominent Nigerians who want to have their cronies in charge of the apex bank so that they can continue to loot the nation’s treasury unabated and to use funds from the bank to bankroll their vaulted political ambitions. As a responsible youth organization, we find it ridiculous, shameful and embarrassing that Salihu Danlami can drag the good name of our group into this mess.” the Assembly said. “No wonder Salihu has refused to hand over as the Speaker of our dear organization in the past seven years that he led the Assembly until he was disgraced out few days ago. It is clear that his desperation to remain in power is just to continue to use the name of the group to carry out nefarious activities to feather his nest,” the statement concluded.
To salvage what is left of this organization’s pride and honour, the Arewa Youth Assembly resolved to Impeach and sack Salihu as our Speaker with immediate effect, expel him from the Assembly and appointed a new Speaker. They urge members of the public to beware of any information that comes from Salihu Danlami as such statements do not come from the Assembly and do not represent their views about the country, the CBN, the nation’s economy and President Buhari’s government’s economic agenda. The Assembly has also written to the relevant security agencies to invite Mr. Salihu for questioning to unravel the extent of the nefarious activities against the country.
