Taraba State All Progressives Congress (APC) youths have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider the one-time President of the Ahmadu Bello University Students’ Union Government and National Convention Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Mohammed Bello Mustapha for appointment.

The youths, in a save our soul message, yesterday, noted that Mustapha fondly called Barr. MB Mustapha has sacrificed a lot for the party for several years and hence deserves to be rewarded.

The statement was signed by Alhaji Bashir Bakari, the representative of the party’s chairmen in council, Bello Muhammad Hassan, and one of the representatives of youths and women in the party, among others.

They also congratulated President Tinubu on his emergence as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

According to the statement, the need to draw the president’s attention to “years of broken promises” to youths in the state has become necessary.

It pointed out that the President’s pro-democracy struggle, as well as sacrifices at other times for new hands to emerge within the spheres of Lagos politics can be likened to the case of Mustapha.

Listing the roles in which MB Mustapha had served, the most recent of which was as Secretary and Legal Adviser of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council in the state, the youths disclosed that a fully-equipped situation room was “manned, handled and successfully coordinated” by him, positing that it was one of the reasons APC in Taraba was able to surpass all expectations to score about 30% of the total votes cast in the presidential polls.

“It is, therefore, safe to say that the engine room of the APC during the Presidential elections was MB Mustapha,” the statement said.


It expressed shock that “people who have longer legs have outrun him to Abuja to receive a reward for what they actually did not work for.


“Rubbing this obvious shortchange of a young man on us collectively kills the morale of the younger elements in our political party to work assiduously for future successes.


“Your Excellency, this letter is not borne out of a spirit of un-sportsmanship because we understand that Mr. President reserves the rights under Section 147 to choose Ministers from the 36 federation states.

“We are emboldened to report this act that shortchanges a hardworking individual because we believe you can right the wrongs of the years past just as you have for the first time since 1999, considered, recognized, and included the Abuja aborigines into your cabinet,” the statement added.