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Not-Too-Young-To-Run movement disowns Saraki’s affiliation

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Jaafar Jaafar is a graduate of Mass Communication from Bayero University, Kano. He was a reporter at Daily Trust, an assistant editor at Premium Times and now the editor-in-chief of Daily Nigerian.
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The Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement on Thursday disowned affiliation with President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki’s declaration for the presidency in 2019 election.

In a statement signed by one of the Conveners of the group, Samson Itodo, it said that it was displeased with the use of its platform by Mr Saraki to declare his ambition without prior consultation.

“The movement wishes to express its disappointment with Senator Saraki for usurping a platform designed for young aspirants to dialogue with party leadership, to advance his political ambition.

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“We strongly condemn this act by the President of the Senate and dissociate ourselves from this political move.

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“As noted earlier, the movement reaffirms its identity as a non-partisan citizen-led movement dedicated to the defense of democracy, political inclusion and transformative leadership.

“The movement restates its commitment to sustain its engagement with political parties to ensure youth candidacy and democratic primaries by the parties.”

The group said that as part of efforts to promote youth candidacy and Democratic primaries, it had commenced series of public town hall meetings with the leadership of political parties and young aspirants.

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According to it, this is to address the challenges faced by young aspirants in securing party tickets.

It said that the movement had scheduled three town hall meetings with the leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC, People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and other parties.

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It stated that while one of the town hall meetings was going on in Abuja, Mr Saraki declared his intention to run for the office of the President in the 2019 elections.

It restated its commitment to sustain engagement with political parties to ensure youth candidacy and democratic primaries by political parties.

It said that the first dialogue held on Friday in Abuja with the leadership of the PDP, adding that the event was attended by Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, Mr Saraki and National Youth Leader of the party, Udeh Okoye.

The group disclosed that young aspirants advocated for a reduction in the cost of parties’ nomination forms, and requested PDP to uphold internal democracy in the conduct of its primaries.

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