{"id":26730,"date":"2025-09-04T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=26730"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:36:45","slug":"northern-youth-group-condemns-el-rufais-insecurity-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=26730","title":{"rendered":"Northern Youth Group Condemns El-Rufai&#8217;s Insecurity Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A northern youth organization has sharply criticized former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai for his recent comments accusing the Federal Government of complicity in the nation&#8217;s security crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coalition of Northern Youths Consultative Movement (CNYCM), in a statement from its National Coordinator Comrade Yusuf Audu and National Secretary Bilal Galadima, demanded El-Rufai retract his allegations, which it termed \u201creckless, baseless, and irresponsible.\u201d The group also called for a public apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CNYCM warned that such accusations risk inflaming tensions and undermining national unity, stating they are a distraction from collective efforts to solve the country&#8217;s complex security challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group&#8217;s statement emphasized the duty of leaders to use responsible language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As leaders, we must prioritise communication that fosters national cohesion and encourages collaborative problem-solving, rather than rhetoric that could exacerbate existing tensions,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a contrasting move, the group praised Senator Shehu Buba, Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, for his &#8220;tireless efforts&#8221; and strategic, non-kinetic approach to mitigating insecurity, citing him as a model of responsible leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A northern youth organization has sharply criticized former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai for his recent comments accusing the Federal Government of complicity in the nation&#8217;s security crisis. The Coalition of Northern Youths Consultative Movement (CNYCM), in a statement from its National Coordinator Comrade Yusuf Audu and National Secretary Bilal Galadima, demanded El-Rufai retract his allegations, which it termed \u201creckless, baseless, and irresponsible.\u201d The group also called for a public apology. The CNYCM warned that such accusations risk inflaming tensions and undermining national unity, stating they are a distraction from collective efforts to solve the country&#8217;s complex security challenges. The group&#8217;s statement emphasized the duty of leaders to use responsible language. &#8220;As leaders, we must prioritise communication that fosters national cohesion and encourages collaborative problem-solving, rather than rhetoric that could exacerbate existing tensions,\u201d it read. In a contrasting move, the group praised Senator Shehu Buba, Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, for his &#8220;tireless efforts&#8221; and strategic, non-kinetic approach to mitigating insecurity, citing him as a model of responsible leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26731,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730\/revisions\/26731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}