By Danjuma Attah, Gombe
The Gombe State Labour Party Gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Keftin Amuga has congratulated one of Nigeria’s foremost military generals and politician, Theophilus Y Danjuma, on his 88th birthday.
In a press statement, congratulating the octogenarian, Keftin Amuga described him as a voice for the oppressed Nigerians adding, “There is no age limit in politics as you celebrate your birthday”.
While appreciating the active involvement of TY Danjuma in Nigeria’s political space by endorsing past Nigerian Presidents, Hon Amuga said, “we need your active intervention to re-subdue the oppressors of Nigerians, particularly to free the ethnic nationalities of Nigeria”.
He said, “I want to remind you that there is no age limit in politics; otherwise, Obasanjo, Buhari, Tinubu, and Atiku—with whom you are in the same age bracket—would not be participants.
“However, because they are driven by ideological concerns that contradict yours, they insist on always seeking your endorsement to be elected, thereby putting in check and liquidating your ideological concern for the oppressed peoples of Nigeria”, he maintained.
He stated further that, “Certainly, if these octogenarians are involved in politics to pursue their agendas, you also have a better and more beneficial ideology/agenda for the liberation of the oppressed and the restoration of freedom of worship to Nigerians, of which I am a standing witness”.
According to him, “I believe it is not enough for you to simply assist quasi-“Patriots” to articulate your agenda, who then turn around to betray your cause. It is now time for you to either lead decisively or ANOINT the next President of Nigeria, because your past ENDORSEMENT of candidates to be Presidents of Nigeria has not paid off”.
Amuga, who always speak for the ethnic nationalities of Nigeria’s Middle-belt region maintained that, “enough is enough with being a kingmaker wherein the endorsed turn around to betray what you stand for. Your input in making Obasanjo both Military Head of State and Civilian President, facilitating the election of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the late Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as Presidents of Nigeria, is still vivid.
“The ethnic nationalities are watching with great concern the intense lobby on the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) for the Tinubu administration to scale the 2027 general election, in spite of the continuing slide into a political abyss and the worst economic and security disaster facing the nation.
“God has kept you alive to handle the Nigerian project directly. You may wish to commence the same by ensuring the emergence of an ideological and patriotic Middle Belt Forum (MBF) leadership to give purposeful direction to the ethnic nationalities and the Nigerian nation”, he appealed.
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