The Convener of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, has said Nigeria will be in chaos if either Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress or Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party wins the 2023 presidential election, stating that the duo have nothing to offer the country.

He said the presidential candidates of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi and that of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are better, compared to Atiku and Tinubu.

He told Vanguard that Tinubu and Atiku had been around political circles for a long time without commensurate positives to show for it.

However, he noted that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who contested the APC presidential primaries or a former banker, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who also aspired for the ticket in the PDP would have made a better President as technocrats.

Hence, Abdullahi, who was a former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, said he would not support any of the candidates.

Abdullahi said he would rather tell Nigerians to brace for the trouble ahead of them should Tinubu or Atiku emerge as the next President.

“No, we still haven’t got the man who we think will fix Nigeria. What we have on (the) ground is not good enough. How can you look at Tinubu and Atiku to say they are the ones who will fix this country?

“They have been on the ground for the last 25, 30 years and so on. What have they done? What are we looking for? I was the one who encouraged a technocrat to join this consensus. You probably had seen Mohammed Hayatu-Deen in the group of people going around looking for consensus arrangements in PDP. I was one of those who encouraged him. We haven’t got the materials on the ground, unfortunately.

“Peter Obi, unfortunately, I don’t know him that much. He is a young man; he was the former governor of Anambra State and he is a businessman.

“He (Kwankwaso) is a good, young man. He started his politics with us and he is quite smart. No doubt about it. Of course, he had some of these debts that he acquired or he must have picked in other political formations and so on but clearly, he is one of the bright ones around. No doubt about that.

“I believe we have not had a good array of politicians. With due respect to some of them that one saw contesting, I am not being selfish here by referring to certain people like Prof. Osinbajo. He is a quality material but the political system will not tolerate him," he told Vanguard Newspaper.

Abdullah further stated there was nothing bad if Osinbajo contested against his supposed godfather, Bola Tinubu.

He continued: “What has it got to do with what Nigeria wants? Is he a slave to the former governor? I don’t understand this kind of analogy. Professor Osinbajo is a human being entirely on his own merit and his accomplishments are entirely his own and people should assess him as such.

“Those who needed his services asked for his services. When he served as the attorney general of Lagos State, he was invited by the political system of Lagos State. This is the way I look at it and when he became vice president, I understand it is the president/party that identified him as qualified and competent enough to be the vice president in the current dispensation.”

“Why shouldn’t he be because he served under XYZ? He should be identified as an individual for leadership in the country,” he added.

While asking Nigerians to prepare for the troubled days ahead should any of the candidates become president in 2023, Abdullahi said: “What I will tell Nigerians is that we are in trouble and the way out is for Nigerians to agree that Nigeria is in trouble and that the machineries that are on ground today, that are expected to find solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria are not appropriate and we have to go back to the drawing board to see what we can do to save the Nigeria of the future.

“I believe the politicians have failed. My belief is that the political class has over the years failed to produce the kind of quality leadership we require to deal with the problems of Nigeria and which means that we should look for quality materials, not necessarily within the mainstream political parties, from outside and there have been a lot of discussions in Nigeria recently about technocrats.”



https://saharareporters.com/2022/06/27/2023-nigeria-trouble-if-tinubu-or-atiku-becomes-president-%E2%80%94northern-elders-forum

Another lie have just been detected

Ok just reading

He is entitle to his opinion

On Bola Ahmed Tinubu Mandate I Stand Gidigba

Parachoko:
He is entitle to his opinion

On Bola Ahmed Tinubu Mandate I Stand Gidigba

I don't want to eat Cassava and agbado bro

Every indices suggest Peter Obi to be the adopted candidate. It's not out of place though as our economy has been f*cked beyond recognition. If we're being honest, Peter Obi is the man and I say this with all shred of honesty within me. Nigeria needs a technocrat and not a politician at this point.

On Peter Obi's mandate I shall stand

The evil ones know. How then can you explain people campaigning for someone who could not explain the where about of his certificate?. The funny thing is that you see the same youths who are currently at home defending them.
Plz, have you seen any of these candidates going about telling people their plans? No!, but you see them holding meetings with the same group of people who took us back to stone age and you expect change to happen?...

Vote Peter Obi for better Nigeria at least he has his certificates and can communicate to citizens of this country.

Asiwaju, the slayer of mpukumiri addicts. . This is almost the 1000th thread opened about him on Nairaland this year alone.

Asiwaju baba Seyi slayer of Meth cannibals.

Jagaban Borgu Jaga Jaga Jaga ban Borgu

Asiwaju makers of men . This is almost the 1000th thread opened about him on Nairaland this year alone. This mandate is yours and kadara will come to pass

Asiwaju, the slayer of mpukumiri addicts. slayer of Meth cannibals. Jaga Jaga Jaga ban Borgu

Asiwaju Tinubu is one of the greatest politician ever. As it stands, he is the most mentioned politician in Africa.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu , your direction is what we will follow.

Jagaban, the slayer of mpukumiri addicts , on your mandate forever. This mandate is yours and kadara will come to pass

Asiwaju, the Lion of Bourdillon . This man need to be studied by student of politics in our universities, we need to have a full syllabus on Asiwaju with reference to Nigerian politics

The hypocrisy of Nairaland moderators can be seen in full glare now. A thread as big as this didn't make it to front page because it will undermine Tinubu's candidacy. Shame on you Seun. Mynd44 and Lalasticlala

helinues:
Another lie have just been detected

Get the message and not the messager, what he said is the truth, am even yet to see who I will vote for, am still working on all the political parties and their candidates, then pray that God gives me wisdom to make the right decision.
Till then Obi, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Tinubu and others can't guarantee my vote for now.

I'm a Yoruba, but believe it or not,
we need younger people than Tinubuu and Atiku.

We all have seen how terrible and woefui Buhari has performed bcs his age, health failed him and this allowed some political, tribal and religious monsters called cabal, to hijacked his government and turned Nigeria to a religious and ethnic war zone as we see it today.

We need young and visionary men to pilot the affairs of the country, not these old and corrupt men that benefited from Nigeria of old, and turned againt her, naked, raped and made her desolate. And they want to come again and again to suck out the remaining life out her ( Nigeria ).