The Action Congress of Nigeria has accused the Peoples Democratic Party and the Presidency of hijacking the National Youth Council of Nigeria.
The ACN alleged that the Presidency had imposed a PDP member as the president of the youth organisation.
The NYCN is the umbrella group for all voluntary youth bodies in the country.
In a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP and the Presidency had infiltrated the NYCN with the intention of using it for partisan purposes.
The ACN said, “The destructive train of the PDP and the Presidency, which has been targeting national institutions and organisations, has recently rammed into the NYCN, and the outcome is chaos and deep division in an otherwise cohesive and non-partisan body.
“In the desperation to seize control of many institutions and organisations, including voluntary groups and professional bodies, as part of their 2015 election strategy, the PDP and the Presidency are sowing the seed of discord and destruction everywhere. Based on available evidence, the crisis currently rocking the NYCN has the imprimatur of the PDP and the Presidency.
“If these desperate folks are not checked, every value we hold dear would be destroyed in the name of mad politicking.’’
ACN said the man, who had been imposed as the NYCN president, was a card-carrying member of the PDP and an aide to the party’s Chairman Bamangar Tukur.
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