Youths in Plateau State have said they are expecting the next batch of ministerial nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari will reflect his campaign promise which anchored on change, insisting that the first batch of nominees defeats the slogan.

“President Buhari, in his first major action, has shown he lacks the capacity to practice what he has preached in his four consecutive trials at the Presidency. He promised change, and Nigerians took him on the social contract, delivering their own part,” Dindam Isaac Laven, acting chairman of united Arewa Youth Organisation said on Saturday.

“But what do we have, a president betraying the very course that earned him the election victory by recycling the same politicians that have been in the leadership of the country he came to salvage from backwardness.”

He told journalist in Jos that his organization doubts President Buhari’s preparedness to bring the needed change.

“With the same politicians who have held sway as leaders of the same country Buhari came to salvage returning in the reigns today; chances are that change may well be forgotten by Nigerians,” Laven said, insisting that the first batch of list explains Buhari’s body language as not ready to offer anything new.

“If Olusola Saraki, as Senate Leader in the Second Republic screened Audu Ogbeh as a ministerial nominee, and Bukola Saraki, his son, will screen same Ogbeh as ministerial nominee; should we then celebrate change? Where then is the change? Buhari’s body language speaks volume about which directing he is going to take Nigeria.”

The youth leader insisted that Buhari’s second list must reflect his promise, by appointing youths, saying “we want to see a certain age of people in power; those we can go to sleep and not worry about their ability to measure in today’s fast changing world. With persons in the age bracket which capacity in manipulating the latest technology including smart phones, we doubt; I don’t think we have anything yet to celebrate.”

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Plateau Youths question Buhari’s capacity to drive change with current ministers