The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL), the umbrella body of all Nigerian youths in all the six geopolitical zones has condemned in strongest terms the recent attack on the Governor of Rivers, Sir Similanayi Fubara.
The youth body also frowned at plot to impeach him using the instrumentality of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
In a statement jointly endorsed and issued on Monday by the President General Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), leader of CONYL, Comrade Goodluck Ibem, Comrade Iniobong Sampson, South-South Youth Coalition (SSYC), and Comrade Junaid Abubakar Arewa Youth Vanguard For Good Governance (AYVGG)., they described the attack on Governor Fubara by security agents with life bullets, teargas and other weapons as a confirmation that there were on a mission to assassinate the Governor.
They said: “It is very clear to all that the Governor has done nothing wrong to warrant an impeachment but because he has refused to share the commonwealth of the good people of Rivers State to a few, some persons want him impeached. But we the people say a capital “NO” to their evil plot on our democracy”.
The Coalition said that what happened amounts to a coup against democracy for some persons to contemplate impeaching a governor who has barely started for 4 months in office who has not committed any impeachable offence whatsoever.
They regretted that these shows that some anti-democratic forces are at work while warning them to stay clear from Rivers State.
“It is very unfortunate that some security agents and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly will allow themselves to be used by selfish individuals who do not mean well for the state to cause disaffection and uproar in the peaceful state of Rivers.”
According to them, Governor Fubara was elected by the good people of Rivers to govern them and he should be allowed to do the job freely given to him by the good people of Rivers without any form of interference from any quarters.
They said: “Rivers State is too big for anyone or a few group of persons to think they can just wakeup and order the impeachment of the executive governor elected by the people. Nigerians have overgrown that era and stage”.
The Coalition, however, threatened to mobilise 2 million Nigerian youths in solidarity with Governor Fubara for effective delivery of democracy dividends to the people of Rivers State who freely gave him his mandate.
They also called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun to immediately arrest and prosecute those security agents who attacked Governor Fubara with life bullets, teargas and other dangerous weapons.
They equally call on Governor Similanayi Fubara to stand firm and strong to defend the mandate freely given to him by the good people of Rivers State who defied the rain, sun and harsh weather to cast their votes for him during the elections adding that “it is him that the people know and it is him that the people will hold accountable”.
The bodies called on the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly not to allow themselves to be used by anyone to cause disaffection and uproar in the state while appealing to all Nigerians to stand in defense of democracy in Rivers that is under attack by a “few selfish individuals”.
The leaders of CONYL urged good people of Rivers to stand solidly behind Governor Fubara who, according to them, means well for the state and is fully prepared to move the state to another level of growth and development.
. TheWitness
