Presidency have to be on benefit and by no means zoning – Northern Elders’ Dialogue board chief, Ango Abdullahi

Abdullahi who spoke whereas receiving the administration of the Coalition of Northern Groups who paid him a courtesy go to in Zaria, Kaduna State on Thursday April 28, acknowledged that candidates have to be allowed to contest election on the thought of benefit of their competence and by no means the place they arrive from.

The NEF chief moreover commented on the controversial emergence of former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Governor Bala Mohammed as consensus candidates of Northern Elders.

He said;

“The issue of zoning or power shift is ineffective and buried, candidates have to be allowed to contest election on the thought of benefit of their competence and by no means the place they arrive from, subsequently the Northern Elders Dialogue board is of the opinion that the presidential place have to be left open for regular norms of the democratic course of.

“They met former navy Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, and knowledgeable him they’d concluded consultations on doable consensus candidate nevertheless did not arrive at one particular person and requested him to assist and he known as me and few others.

“The aspirants insisted on us choosing from amongst them nevertheless we knowledgeable them it was not doable, so we consulted elders from all through the North West, North Central and North East sooner than Aminu Tambuwal and Atiku Abubakar withdrew from the tactic.

“All elders voted for first and second choice and Bukola Saraki and Governor Bala Mohammed tied and every of them have been requested to each select one among themselves or do further session on the easiest amongst them and our recommendation was signed by me as Ango Abdullahi and by no means on behalf of NEF, a spot I made very clear at a press conference I addressed in Minnam.”