Date: 2013-06-10

National Youths Council of Nigeria, NYCN, an umbrella body of the youths in the country, has cautioned the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, against dragging its name into politics, noting that its claim that its newly elected president, Comrade Yakubu Shendam was an aide to the National Chairman of ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was not true.

According to a statement by the NYCN  in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Abdulrahman  Agboola, the council said the organisation is a non-political, non-religious and non-tribal organisation that had been working for the growth of the nation's youths.

It described the recent statement by the ACN signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammed,  about the newly elected president of the organisation as very unfortunate.

According to the group, "the President of the NYCN, Comrade Yakubu Shendam is a former President of the National Association of Polytechnic Students and currently a youth rights advocate and has never met the PDP National Chairman in any official capacity. This allegation is not only unfounded but equally indicates the clandestine motive of ACN to use NYCN as a front to attack the Presidency and PDP."

The NYCN, therefore, urged the progressive members of the council not to allow themselves to be used as tools in the hands of desperate politicians and urged its members to remain focussed in its bid to move the country forward.