According to Alhaji Seidu Baba, a member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), the forum has not chosen Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential nominee Atiku Abubakar as a consensus candidate.
Baba made the clarification during a news conference in Abuja on Saturday.
According to him, despite Atiku’s efforts to be approved as the sole candidate of the North, the NEF has not endorsed him.
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“Atiku has no credentials to be a solitary Northern Presidential candidate,” he said, dismissing suggestions that the NEF’s 10th anniversary will see the adoption of Atiku as the consensus candidate for the North.
Baba said: “There was an attempt to cajole and even force the NEF to adopt him (Atiku), which shows how desperate he is.
“Many people believe, that although the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-rufai, was condemning Northern elders, it is believed, his real target was Atiku Abubakar.
“There is no way Atiku can be a Northern candidate because he does not know them and we do not know him.”
“It is believed Atiku got wind of his rejection the reason he failed to show up at the NEF Assembly and could not send any representative.
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“Atiku has not been seen as somebody who is close to the North, because he has not been fair to us.
“He is somebody that has his base outside the North.”
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