Akwa Ibom youths support President Buhari, Ekere

Christian Youths Leaders Assembly in Akwa Ibom State at the weekend supported President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 presidential election.They also endorsed the managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere, for governorship of the state.

Buhari and Ekere, both All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates, were presented with symbolic keys to State House and Government House, Uyo, during a solemn assembly attended by members of the organisation drawn from 329 wards and 2,273 villages in the state at Uyo Township Stadium.

Accepting the endorsement, President Buhari, represented by his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly (Senate) Matters, Senator Ita Enang, appreciated the youths and urged them to take advantage of the Not-Too-Young-To-Run bill, which he recently signed into law, to participate more actively in politics.He said his government was addressing the security challenges in the country, which have wrongly been given religious colouration, assuring that he would not do anything to make one religion look superior to others.

President Buhari said he was adopting all proper measures to free Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl still in Boko Haram captivity.In his speech, Ekere commended the youths for choosing a different path from some Christian leaders in the state.

“Today, you have redeemed Christianity. Before I came here, I heard all sorts of stories about Christian leaders turning themselves into a political organisation and going from church to church, preaching hate. Christianity teaches us that we should love one another. I think it is not Christianity for a father to choose a child over another. The Spirit of God will go with us and will be our enabler, our strength,” he said.

The governorship aspirant lauded Buhari for fighting the ills of Nigeria and putting the country on the path of progress.Chief Don Etiebet, the Akwa Ibom State leader and caucus chairman of the APC, thanked the youths for the endorsement of Buhari who, he said, loves all Nigerians including Akwa Ibom people.He also appreciated the endorsement of Ekere to run for the governorship of Akwa Ibom on the APC ticket.