DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous It seems as if the the Endorsement of Gov. Bala Mohammed, by North's most influential group, the Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NLYF) has rattled and send shivers into Atiku's camp ahead of the 2023 presidential elections. Information filtering in to Daily Rendezvous desk, suggests that the outright rejection of Atiku Abubakar and Aminu Tambuwal's overtures by the northern group, right at Atiku's backyard, might have struck an unpalatable chord, as we have gathered, the incident might have forced the former vice president to hatch a plot to float a rival group that would rival the Northern Leaders Youth Forum and champion his Presidential ambition heading into 2023. In view of the desperate ploy by the Atiku group for endorsement ahead of his party's 2023 primary elections, the Youth and Support Groups office of His Excellency, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is said to have taken proactive steps by making key appointments. F...

Daily Rendezvous The North's most influential group, Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NLYF) is set to endorse either Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed or media mogul and founder of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, come 5th June, 2021. The group, during its 27th national delegates conference held in Yola, Adamawa state, said, it would not be intimidated from endorseing either Bala Mohammed or Dokpesi, come 5th June, 2021. The group alleged that its group members have come under severe threat by some powerful Nigerians trying to influence the groups endorsement after it scaled down twenty seven names it earlier shortlisted to two persons, of Bala Mohammed and Raymond Dokpesi. Conspicuous absences from the list is PDP's 2019 flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, Nyesom Wike, among othet notable names earlier shortlisted. Speaking to Newsmen at a press conference in Yola, the National Chairman of Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NYLF) Comrade Eliot Afiyo, said the ...

Daily Rendezvous The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) says it is not unawares of the scheemings, intimidation techniques and attempt at coertion by some powerful Nigerians, including a retired general, to infiltrate the decision of the delegates of the forum towards changing its decisions that narrowed down its presidential candidacy to Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state and Raymond Dokpesi. The Forum states that it would not be intimidated or cornered into reversing its decision by including a third name which is the name of a sitting governor. This was made known in a statement issued by the Zonal Coordinator (North West) of the NYLF, Sadiq Musa, and made available to Newsmen, Wednesday. Sadiq said, "The attention of the NYLF Leadership has been drawn to the scheming and political maneuverings by some powerful and influential politicians to cause division amongst our Delegates so as to create chaos during our Delegates Conference. "We are also...

Daily Rendezvous The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has denounced as false and a figment of some media's imaginations, the claims in some local and international media, that it has endorsed Nyesom Wike as its candidate for presidency come 2023. The national chairman of the Forum, Elliot Afiyo, said, the organisation is not unaware of the desperation and the scheemings of some groups in view of the 2023 presidency, but NLYF has its protocols for endorsing a candidate and that the process is already in progress to endorse a candidate. Afiyo, has described as false and misleading, certain claims by the BBC and VOA, that Nyesom Wike or any other candidate has indeed been endorsed for presidency in 2023. Elliot made the remarks in a press statement, made available to Daily Rendezvous, Tuesday. Afiyo said, following one of the forum's NEC meeting in Sokoto, only three persons namely, Gov. Bala Mohammed, Raymond Dokpesi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu, were presente...

News Rendezvous Comrade Elliot Afiyo is the National Chairman of the unarguably most popular and influential Northern Youth Organization called Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) the umbrella body for some 42 Northern Youth Groups formed by the Northern Political, Religious, Traditional and Military Elites in 1990. NYLF is unarguably the most powerful and influential Youth Organisation in the North in particular and the Nation in general.  This Forum has been engineering the processes of determining who the President of Nigeria becomes since 1999. Comrade Afiyo is the third National Chairman of the Forum after Prof. Musa Danladi Musawa and Prof. Sadiq Usman Abubakar. He is also the Secretary –General of the Association of West African Monarchs and a Senior Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). In this explosive interview, Comrade Eliot opined that the former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has the best quality from the southern part of Nigeria ...