Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has called on private sector players to join the 2023 presidential race and succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, to rescue the country from the shackles of poor leadership and the dwindling economy.

In a statement signed by the Speaker, Mohammed Danlami, and National Clerk, Desmond Minakaro, AYA urged Nigerians to avoid electing politicians that make empty promises and share foodstuff and money.

The made case, instead, for people from the private sector that have shown the capacity to build sustainable businesses and impact lives to be given a chance to govern.

Entrepreneurs in politics, they maintained, will serve as mediators between individuals with economic ideas and the body of government responsible for making and implementing such policies to have a harmonious outcome, pushing the country further economically.

AYA stated: “Marrying leadership with entrepreneurship has been established as idiosyncratic, thus laying a solid foundation of competence, vision, skills for the firm and effective leadership. The knowledge and experience an entrepreneur acquires from business expose him to how government affects the private sector, which is the source of economic growth.

“An entrepreneur that can grow wealth, bear risk in such conditions found in Nigeria surely is suited to better the fortunes of the nation.

“Nigeria will flourish under such a person, our economy will grow, as he/she is already an employer of labour, and will create employment on a level-playing ground for businesses to grow.”