Second Republic lawmaker, Dr.
Junaid Mohammed, on Friday confirmed that Northern Elders actually adopted a
resolution, to reject President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in the 2019,
because of his failure to meet the basic demand of the region.
Mohammed, however, insisted that
the north did not choose Atiku, as the candidate it would support in place of
Buhari.
Speaking with Vanguard, he noted
that the Convener of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi, spoke the
minds of the northern people when he declared that they had rejected Buhari
ahead of next year’s election.
According to Mohammed, the
decision by the north to reject Buhari as its candidate for the 2019
presidential election was taken by no fewer than 18 key northern stakeholders
groups, adding that Abdullahi merely echoed the verdict reached.
He said: “It is clear that APC
and Buhari are shocked by the decision of NEF not to support him next year and
they have started paying people to attack Ango Abdullahi as if he acted alone
in the decision to dump Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.
“The only missing link in what
Ango Abdullahi did was to come out openly to say that the north would support
Buhari. It is not so and we never discussed the idea of supporting Atiku
because he is not an alternative to Buhari in any form.
“The truth of the matter is that
there is no way we can come out openly to support Atiku over Buhari because
Atiku has some credibility issues just as Buhari is incompetent to lead
Nigeria. As it has become evident, that incompetence has held down the
development of Nigeria in the last four years and there is nothing Buhari can
do because he has also been captured by a cabal.
“As far as I am concerned, those
who want to endorse Atiku over Buhari have a lot of explanation to do to the
Nigerian people especially regarding issues of selling the core assets of
Nigeria to incompetent cronies of the Obasanjo era of which Atiku played a
major role and today most of such commercial enterprises have been overtaken by
weeds across the country.
“Atiku also needs to explain to
Nigerians how he is better than Buhari in terms of using a cabal to run the
system and being unable to break away from nepotism in the running of the
government.”
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