NYCN Members Stage Protest Over Withdrawal Of CAC Registration

Over 3,000 members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Thursday, protested the caller deregistration of the assembly by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

Addressing the property during the protestation astatine CAC headquarters, Secretary General of NYCN, Barrister Abubakar Suleiman, said, arsenic a elder lawyer, the Registrar General of CAC, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji (SAN), should beryllium guided against delisting NYCN from CAC without waiting for tribunal judgment.

He said: “Over 3,000 Nigeria younker are gathered present today, due to the fact that of the impunity, lawlessness and the cognition of the Registrar General of the CAC. Nigeria is simply a federation. We are not surviving successful a state of anomie. We are surviving successful a state wherever the instrumentality works. The National Youth Council of Nigeria, the highest younker council, person its organisation registered with the CAC, Corporate and Affairs Commission.

“Just recently, 2 days ago, determination was a work from the CAC that it has withdrawn the certificate of National Youth Council of Nigeria, arsenic good arsenic acceptable up a committee to negociate the affairs of the council. We person a pending suit astatine the Court of Appeal against CAC. CAC is simply a enactment to a suit that is pending astatine the Court of Appeal.

“We had won a suit successful Federal High Courts. They inferred that CAC has nary powerfulness to delist the Youth Council of Nigeria. But rather unfortunately, the Registrar General went and delisted the Youth Council of Nigeria from the portal of CAC, and issued a publication, arsenic good arsenic acceptable up a committee to negociate the affairs of the National Youth Council of Nigeria.

“We are present to accidental no. Enough to impunity. Enough to this. It is evident that the RG of CAC is moving against the ambition of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Renewed Hope Agenda that we are each clamouring for, and we are each supporting the Renewed Hope Agenda.

“We are not conscionable doing present today, we are not conscionable stopping here. This is the archetypal time of our flagging off. For 30 days, this protestation volition proceed until President Tinubu sacks RG. We person mobilised our youths crossed the 36 states positive FCT, 774 section governments, to bash the aforesaid protestation successful each authorities that CAC bureau is located.

“The aforesaid RG has a pending lawsuit earlier Court of Appeal and the aforesaid RG is present again to delist National Council of Nigeria from the database unlawfully, portion determination is simply a pending suit successful the Court of Appeal. And we person won a suit astatine the Federal High Court and we got judgment.

“So connected which crushed is helium deregistering NYCN? The CAC RG is simply a lawyer, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria for that matter. I’m a subordinate of the Bar. I wonderment however specified idiosyncratic of hierarchy of the profession, a noble profession, a man to the core, volition bash this. We accidental nary to this impunity.”