Breaking: National Youth Alliance Adopts Yar’Adua’s 7-point Agenda
*The Youth President and National Chairman of the National Youth Alliance (NYA), Amb. Aliyu Bin Abbas, has announced his decision to adopt and expand the 7-point agenda of late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua as the foundation of his 2027 Presidential Campaign—introducing an 8th point: “FOSTERING NATIONAL UNITY”.
This was contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Okpani Jacob Onjewu Dickson, and made available to journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday, May 7.
The Youth President made this declaration in Kano while meeting with the 44 Local Government Coordinators of the NYA in Kano State. During the meeting, the Coordinators unanimously called on him to adopt and modernize the agenda of the late President Yar’adua, whom they described as the last Nigerian leader with a clearly defined and people-centered national vision. Responding to their call, Amb. Bin Abbas formally unveiled the new 8-point agenda.
He noted that while President Yar’adua had a 7-point agenda aimed at repositioning Nigeria, the NYA is building on that framework by introducing an 8th point—the urgent need to foster national unity.
“This country is more broken today along ethnic and religious lines than we have ever seen. If we are truly serious about making progress, we must first unite. There is no development without unity,” Amb. Aliyu Bin Abbas stated.
He emphasized that while every candidate comes with their own agenda, “the truth is that we are still battling the same foundational issues that have plagued us for decades. The last time Nigeria had a government with sincere purpose and a clear national direction was during the Yar’adua administration.”
“There is no shame in building on what once worked. The Yar’Adua era gave us a glimpse of what sincere, purposeful leadership could achieve. Today, we are blessed with better tools, greater technology, and a more awakened populace—but what we lack is the honesty, unity, and political will to move forward. What we need now is not novelty for novelty’s sake, but the courage to finish what was started—with even greater resolve.”