Northern Elders Finally Reveals Quality of President the Region Needs in 2023
- Northern voters have been urged to carefully select the quality of president they should vote for in the forthcoming election
- The apex socio-political organisation in the north made this known at the 10th anniversary of the Northern General Assembly
- According to the organisation, the north needs a president with the ideas, the mental and physical capacity
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The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has encouraged voters in the region to vote for a president that has their interest at heart.
The Pan-Arewa socio-political organisation, Northern Elders Forum (NEF) disclosed this at the 10th anniversary of the Northern General Assembly of NEF, held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja on Wednesday, February 15.
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Legit.ng reporter who covered the event reports that NEF listed some of the qualities voters in the region should look out for in voting for their choice.
The Forum in the press release made available to journalists at the event harped on the mental capacity of the next president.
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The release read in part:
"Distinguished invitees, Ladies and gentlemen, the North knows its interests, and will vote in the next elections for them. At this stage, the best way those interests will be served is by advising all Northern voters to exercise their choices very carefully.
"What the north needs is a president with the ideas, the mental and physical capacity and the freedom from narrow, ethnic bases to be trusted to lead us out of our lamentable circumstances. We trust the political maturity of the Northern voter, and we have faith that he will rise to the occasion.
"We on our part will continue to offer advise and guidance to our fellow Northerners when it becomes necessary. We recognize the very high expectations of Northerners that our Northern groups should guide them on the choice of the best candidates, and we will not betray their trust."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that ahead of the February 25 presidential election, Professor Ango Abdullahi, the convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has insisted that the region still has four more years to be in the presidency.
In response to calls for northern presidential candidates to drop their ambition, Abdullahi on Wednesday, February 15, argued that the north has been at the forefront of supporting regions in national polls.
For him, those asking candidates from the north to drop their presidential bid have no right to do so; he added that northerners like their counterparts from other regions have the right to run for the presidency as many times as they choose to.
Source: Legit.ng
