Sukubo banks on Northern support as he seeks re-election

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA – President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Amb. Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, has declared that the goodwill and enactment of Northern Nigeria stay cardinal to his enactment success, arsenic helium appealed for a caller mandate to instrumentality arsenic caput of the younker body.

Sukubo made the entreaty connected Thursday evening astatine the North-West Consultative Meeting successful Kano State, organised by the NYCN Kano State Chapter successful concern with the authorities government.

The gathering was attended by authorities representatives, members of the NYCN Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, Management Committee, the 7 authorities chairmen from the zone, zonal leaders, and heads of Voluntary Youth Organisations (VYOs).

“So, contiguous I americium soliciting your support, contiguous I americium seeking your caller mandate to proceed arsenic your servant leader, to proceed arsenic your steward,” helium told delegates astatine the gathering.

The younker person said the North had consistently been his ‘pillar’ of enactment since helium joined the council, giving him the spot and momentum to ascent antithetic ladders of enactment wrong the NYCN.

“I americium present contiguous to entreaty to the North-West successful peculiar and the full North by extension. I person travel to fto you cognize however important you are to me, however the North person been supporting my medication since inception. I cannot instrumentality your goodwill and enactment for granted,” helium added.

Sukubo noted that his administration’s determination to embark connected the revalidation of affiliated VYOs, a measurement avoided by past leaderships for fearfulness of crises, was deliberate and mostly beneficial to Northern younker groups.

He explained that the determination was carried retired successful enactment with law requirements and to fortify the legitimacy of the NYCN.

“I decided to instrumentality the bull by the horns connected my ain by embarking connected the revalidation exercise. Many National Youth Council Presidents person travel and gone; anyone that attempted to bash revalidation faced situation that yet removed specified idiosyncratic from office,” helium said.

The initiative, according to him, has produced 18 revalidated VYOs successful the North-East, 35 successful the North-West, and 31 successful the North-Central.

Meanwhile, the Kano State Government lauded Sukubo’s dedication to younker empowerment. The Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Mustapha Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, portion hosting the NYCN President successful his office, said the authorities recognised the affirmative interaction of his leadership.

Given Kano’s ample younker population, the commissioner added, the authorities authorities was committed to gathering strategical partnerships with the NYCN and different organisations to amended the lives of young people.

At the extremity of the consultative meeting, North-West stakeholders unanimously passed a ballot of assurance connected Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and the NYCN nationalist executives nether Sukubo’s leadership.

They besides pledged to present each delegates’ votes from the portion to him astatine the forthcoming nationalist elective legislature scheduled for 19–22 September 2025.

The station Sukubo banks connected Northern enactment arsenic helium seeks re-election appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.