{"id":80281,"date":"2023-01-16T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-apc-youth-leader-explains-jagaban-army-amid-outrage-2"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:48:41","slug":"tinubu-apc-youth-leader-explains-jagaban-army-amid-outrage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/tinubu-apc-youth-leader-explains-jagaban-army-amid-outrage-2","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: APC youth leader explains \u2018Jagaban Army\u2019 amid outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Leader, Dayo Israel on Monday reacted to the backlash over the \u2018Jagaban Army\u2019 for presidential candidate Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The appellation is being discussed with many respondents condemning the formation of what is like the military unit of Tinubu campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy Twitter thread on Monday, Israel stated that the \u2018Army\u2019 in the name doesn\u2019t equate the military or paramilitary.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, he posted a photo with the caption: \u201cThe Wing Marshal of the APC National Youth Wing; and Chief of Army Staff of the Jagaban Army. It coincided with the launch in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In his explanation, the youth leader said the branding was informed by the \u201cpopular regarding of political canvassers as foot soldiers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the unit was ready to work with others \u201cpreaching the message of Asiwaju and winning new converts for the party through peaceful and strategic engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operations of the Jagaban\u2019s Army are fully democratic and centered around well-established democratic persuasion methods in every electoral campaign season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel said the body was in a peaceful and democratic course of \u201cpreaching the achievements and goodwill of the APC and her candidates to bring about electoral victory\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe branding of a vote mobilization unit as an \u2018army\u2019 is neither an anomaly in democratic politics nor a deviation from democratic norms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ceremonial outfit worn by the leadership of the \u2018Army\u2019 at its inauguration bears no semblance to that of the armed forces nor does it purport to be representative of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat just like Obama\u2019s Army, the Jagaban\u2019s Army is a rebirth of participatory democracy, infused by the energy of millions of Nigerian youths at home and in the diaspora\u201d, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Leader, Dayo Israel on Monday reacted to the backlash over the \u2018Jagaban Army\u2019 for presidential candidate Bola Tinubu. The appellation is being discussed with many respondents condemning the formation of what is like the military unit of Tinubu campaign. 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