Youth groups of the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the platform of Youths and Solidarity Forum, have called on the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN); Minister of Transport, Mr Rotmi Amaechi, and others seeking elective political offices in the 2023 general election to resign from office before the party’s primaries slated for next month.

Amaechi and some serving ministers, as well as heads of agencies and parastatals in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration have already declared their intentions to run in the forthcoming general election.

However, in their responses, the youth in their thousands, who besieged the APC Headquarters in Abuja Wednesday, said the party is not the property of any individual, hence no one should hold the party to ransom.

Speaking through their Convener, Tobias Ogbeh, the youth argued that the non-resignation of such persons before the primaries could jeopardise the party’s presidential ticket.

They stated that they cannot continue to feign ignorance to the attitudes of some vested interest in the party who have arrogated to themselves the powers to decide how to play the game in contravention of the rules of engagement as stipulated in the 2022 Electoral Act as amended.