A Coalition of Nigeria’s Youth and Students Society has urged the presidential candidate of the Accord Party (AP), Prof. Chris Imumolen, to step down for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Party (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu.
The group ‘s president, Khalid Abbas gave the charge at a news conference in Abuja, on Wednesday.
He said that after critical observation of all the candidates running for the presidential seat, Tinubu was the only one that has the capacity and experience to bring the positive change Nigerians yearn for.
Abbas said: “We have always advocated for youth presidency, someone whom I feel understands our pains.
“But these few days to the election, we have to face reality.
“I wrote a letter to the presidential candidate of the AP appealing to him to step down for the Tinubu believing he will understand reasons behind it.
“We need to understand that election is based on capacity, structure and funding. When he showed his interest (Imumolen), we were happy because he is a youth like us and will be able to represent us properly.”
According to him, after series of conversations, findings and arguments, we thought of people like Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who is also somehow a youth but he lacks capacity.
“So I don’t think he will have the chance of becoming president may be he will in future .
“In life at times you need to make a hard decision and our stand now is the presidential candidate of the APC,” he said